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Shops and Hobbies in Loughborough, Leicestershire*

Loughborough, Leicestershire Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• vr and label
• all crap. primark has 2 be the best new one...u can buy like a hundred t's 4 a tenner then rip them up and draw over them 4 some much needed improvements.
• Charity Shops are decent, you find some good items in there if you look. if not then H&M in Nottingham is the closest H&M that has mens clothes after Leicesters selection decreased and died.
• The market init man wicked
• Well we have the teenage trashy New Look and Tammy Girl,and cheapo Primark, QS, Littlewoods etc. Go to Nottingham/ Leicester for anything decent. ONE GOOD SHOP IN LOUGHBOROUGH IS FRENCH CONNECTION- does anyone even know where it is?
• rebel
• theres rebel on main street, never been in there though?
• Irish is great shop for skaters but they have them everywere. A new shop called Pink has just opened it's has got good clothes and they're at a good price.
• for blokes stuff lboro isnt too bad there is a next for the sensible clothes wearer, a couple of designer shops whish sell disel& levis and arent too expensive.
• VR, Top Casual, TkMax & Next and i wouldnt step in any other clothes shop in lufbra!
• rebel
• VR,Label & Top Casual
• TOP CASUAL a kool little shop for women and men near IRISH-a skateboarder/surfer clothes shop
• good old Tammy haha wateva! second hand shops are mint
• in loughborough.......... nah
• EHB changing rooms. Featuring Stinky Darren and Fat Pete
• None, fashion does not exist in L'boro, unless u buy off the market! o dear!
• This is where Loughbrough has a problem!! There's some okay ones, but we need more!! The Rushes will hopefully bring some more (when it opens - if ever!!)
• we need more clothes shops. The only good ones are denium designs, next and new look for girls and us girls need more of a varity.
• Masquerade fancy dress shop up near the bingo hall has loads of costumes and gives 10% nus discount.
• new look
• Loughborough is absolutley crap for shopping - don't bother - go to Leicester or Nottingham instead.
• there is NO decent clothes shops in Loughborough! however there is new look if u want cheep crap, and i guess NEXT is ok. but thats as good as it gets!
• NEW LOOK! um, that's about it!!! there's a fairly decent skate and surf wear shop in the rushes.
• Irish and the rush are the only shops in Loughborough which sell skater makes
• Well lets see, we could go in Tammy girl and see two faced bitchy models like erm ,,,,, Amy fucking Leong. yeah great!!!!
• There are hardly any decent clothes shops if ur looking for girls but for young people the best youve got is either newlook or etams but they aren't that great we really could do with a miss selfridge or topshop. for older people yuo've got the choice of dorothy perkins,etams,next and thats about it stupid really. if your looking for a really good shopping day then don't come to loughbrough seriously take my advice!
• Loughborough is CRAP. there is only 3 shops, new look, next and dorothy perkins and they are all crap!!!!!!!! when will loughborough get some decent shops!!!??!?!?!?!??! i think the answer is never.
• Sweet F.A, can't decide where the sock man statue got his sock from. Irish menswear is about as good as it gets, but if you dont like being stalked by heavily paranoid and arsey shop assisstants with to much Lynx bodyspray which makes you gag, don't bother. If youre not loaded as well, dont bother. Oh, and if youre a girl over a size 6, dont bother. Basically, dont bother. Go to Nottingham.
• there are lots of clothes shops in loughbrough for instince newlook 14-30 etams9-40 in etams onthe bottom floor are the adults section and on the top floor is tammy girl which is for kids
• Irish menswear - don't forget to check out the dodgy army surplus dept as well as the leather underwear and fur-lined handcuffs, all this along with the latest gear !!
• Dire
• oads. V.R, Low profile, Irish, Next and loads of second hand stuff
• Just Gorgeous has loads of cool second hand indie/trashy/kitsch clothes (jeans, baby doll t shirts, shirts, cords, coats, etc).

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• Loughborough Art College.
• Quorn Country Crafts on Churchgate sell cross stitch and stuff The Museum has art displays which are periodically changed
• DIY
• LOUGHBOROUGH ANNUAL BOOKFAIR. P.B.F.A. The Charnwood Indoor bowls Centre, Browns Lane, Loughborough (behind the leisure centre) Saturday, May 14th,2005, 10a.m. - 4p. m.Admission £1. Thousands of rare, second hand and out of print books and maps for sale.
• Art fans should check out the Charnwood Museum in Queens Park and the Generator Gallery on Packe st in May for the BTEC final year exhibitions.
• pukka?
• yeh the saatchi museum next to Don Millers
• writing on halfpipe lol
• try the museum it has a gallery
• Artspace http://www.artspace-lboro.co.uk ArtSpace is a group of local practising artists in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England. Artspace is involved in community workshops,public art projects and a number of exhibitions.Work includes painting, drawings,sculpture, printmaking, textiles, photography and collage.
• The Charnwood Museum often has interesting displays and the art shop in churchgate has a collection of nice paintings.
• ha ha ha, you have to be joking. Loughborough's idea of art is a £20k statue of a bald man putting on a sock!
• Sun Emporium for all your lava lamp type stuff. Purchased a handy thirst aid hat, the pinnacle of many nights out in Loughborough cept im always the one who ends up carrying it home. Good range of hairdye's as well, all colours. Make sure you find out when delivery day is as stocks seem to get rampaged pretty quickly by Loughboroughs rainbow heads.
• The Generator Gallery (Art College) on Packe Street has interesting stuff, including photos of duck-farmers.
• Titania, opposite Effies (girls be wary of the aforementioned place), sells some unusual stuff and if you're into Feng Shui they sell authentic crystals too.
• Increasing number of art groups but they do tend to populated by people whose dads run the art college. Try "artspace" in a search engine.
• There is a new shop on Market Street that sells inflatable aliens.
• We have Pies which are Pukka
• Grass Roots closed down either at the end of 1996 or beginning of 1997. There's not a lot to take its place.
• Grass Roots, just down the road to Left Legged, has all sorts of craft type junk and kids toys and expensive cards and is the town's only supplier of Crazy Color hairdye.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• Theres a shop called "The Book Company" or somthing on Market Street, they have a load of old comics going cheap. if not then Ottakers.
• mayers ist gut as is late stop
• theres that place next to joes old pub.
• Good selection of top shelf material in the new red lite district in loughborough (which involves two shops sellin kinky gear) just like the dam
• gt news lol
• old skool comics are found in places like "forbidden planet"
• (twentyFour stocks tem both) also Good Ol' WHSMITHS.
• Any newagents!! WH Smith have a wide selection - as does Tesco. If you missed last months copy of your fav magasine there's a stall on the market that sells them cheaply!!
• WH Smiths
• weve got lots of magazine shops in loughbrough eg gt news under the carilion court.
• Sparrow Hill Newsagents is worth going to. The bloke that runs it is dead helpful and when I was looking for a magazine that was only available from the US he ran his arse off trying to find me. Go and visit the guy, he's a top bloke!
• Get real
• Left Legged Pineapple (anime videos etc)

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