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Shops and Hobbies in Newport, Isle of Wight*

Newport, Isle of Wight Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• Mail order goth/ alternative clothing & accessories business based on the Isle of Wight. Island wide delivery available. See http://black-sunshine.cjb.net for more info
• HSC//ROUTEONE//ROLLERSNAKES(10.00 DELIVERY)
• Upper St James Street and Scarrots Lane are the best places to find non-high street shops.
• Revolver
• Unless you want to look like you just stepped in from a fucking whiny boyband you have to go somewhere else, on halloween night I skated through the town with my pals (sam+julie) and everything was the same as usuall, BUT the next day after skool when i walked through, another towns boy sports shop had opened selling a full range of 43 different types of white 'classic' shoe and some kind of gold space boots. it looked like the evilness of halloween had brought yet another sports store full of twats. Conclusion: for respectable gear, go a hell of a long way away.
• Blokes clothes shops in Newport (plus the whole IoW) are a joke. There is either expensive designer shops which seem to base their whole range on owing and xr3i and having a girlfriend from essex or mationwide chains like Top Man which base their whole range on coming from a boy band.
• Top Shop, New Look, Inter Sport, Etams
• There is no shops for 14-17 year old boys.
• Skin trade for surf ware. Fosters for menswear. Topshop for woman.
• Don't bother. Go to Southampton or preferably London
• New Look if you are low on funds!
• Topshop/Man, as the rest of the nation The best is probably the No Fear shop, which sells skating/surfing stuff
• The best clothes shops for men and women are Visual Impact.

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

• dragonfly.
• Quay arts centre well tranquil
• loads
• The Barn, Arreton

Magazine and Comic Shops

• super shop
• Various newsagents in Newport... best is Farnsworths in Newport because they stock good skateboard mags
• Astounding Comics, 61 Pyle Street, Newport, IW. 01983-525320 do all types of comics/roleplaying also CCG, and the only one on the island. Say hello to Laurence (owner).

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Last updated: 2007-07-05