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Overview
Covent Garden’s a good place to start looking for the mod and odd. For example, consider the Candle Shop or Tea House or the wildly decorated Banana Bookshop. Over on Rose Street, Stanfords offers the largest collection of maps and guidebooks anywhere, and it’s just steps from quality cafés. The Jubilee Market off Covent Garden towards the Strand runs to a lot of tourist items, but clothing prices for leather can be exceptional and the many little shops on New Row or over on Newburgh Street towards Carnaby Street offer more choices.
Shops like The Duffer of St. George offer extremely mod men’s fashions. However, the wildest clothing – don’t forget one designer noted that “good taste is no bar to fashion in London.” -is doubtlessly Hyper Hyper, where very new and often very odd designers can start with a limited space and bootstrap a business one garment at a time.
The Great Frog is perhaps Carnaby Street's wildest jewelry store with everything from hippie feather items, African and Venetian beads, and a host of other items at very attractive prices. A number of stalls at Covent Garden offer killer jewelry and purses too.
Some of the best mod and odd items are in Street markets like Camden Lock/Passage, Petticoat Lane, Picadilly Crafts, Gabriel’s Wharf/Riverside and Monster Portobello Road Saturday markets. Camden’s many markets offer very mod, punk and wilder items daily too. |
