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Overview
It’s likely that London visitors can find anything they wish to buy at an affordable price on Oxford Street where Selfridges, Marks & Spenser, John Lewis and a host of smaller stores stretch the two miles from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch. Selfridges offers the largest selections and a huge food hall that, like the rest of the store, is much more affordable than Harrods. A block away Marks and Spenser, fondly known as “Marks and Sparks” may offer the best prices for quality clothing in London. Most of the Oxford Street shops are open from about 9:00 to 17:30 or 18:00 Monday through Saturday. A flotilla of buses move people back and forth down what may be the busiest shopping street in the world.
Side streets offer their own pleasures. Liberty on Regent Street and, further along towards Piccadilly Circus, a massive Tower Records feature good fabrics, incredible scarves and clothing and more records, CDs and DVDs than most radio stations play in a year. Regent Street, like Bond Street and the cluster of streets between Oxford and Picadilly, has stores like Chanal, Tiffany, Smythson (where the Queen buys her stationery), and other specialty stores. This is a wonderful area to wonder and windowshop, but “if you have to ask, you may not be able to afford it. |
