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Shops and Hobbies in Exeter, Devon*

Exeter, Devon Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• the real mccoy..so cool for vintage
• Electric Gypsy funky sixties and seventies clothing.
• Cody's is a must for all Hooligan attire - Stone Island, Burberry, Aquascutum, £300 a t-shirt typically.
• node on queen street is a little bit of london in exeter, great fashion brands and some really rare stuff, individual styles and unique designs
• milk is good and node is pretty cool 2, bt they r both brand new so luckily the whole city hasnt jumped on the bandwagon yet
• The Boarding house
• milk. 122 fore street. new shop specializing in skate/graff labels, plus original artwork by local and international graffiti artists
• Real Macoys: off Fore Street-good retro clothing and cool costumes.
• gandy street is a nice little haven for some decent clothes, as is the Real McCoy (in that little arcade off fore street - the gap between presuming ed's and krackers). also firkins has some good stuff!
• The Attic in Bakers Yard - fill a bag for a pound.
• H&M
• ahhhhh where do i start!? all the usual high st ones, plus G2 a brilliant but xpensive surf shop, urban surfer, salt city list goes on and on...H n m has to be my fav tho for cool n cheap stuff hiding amongst the bright orange things
• HM, Monsoon are my favs. I also think Molasses and Urban Africa and Star Child are excellent.
• Salt City
• Blue Banana for punk and goth type stuff, Freespirit for surfy stuff, Real McCoy for hippie stuff. Yay!
• Real McCoys of course...
• my new favourite...the charity shop near the cavern. The Real McCoy is getting over-run by townie adolescents and is just not as great as it used to be.
• The Real McCoy but it's getting popular with the townie kids- must discourage them
• Willy's on Gandy Street if you want to go up market/ designer. For cheap, second hand and vintage clothes try the Real McCoy on Fore Street, otherwise usual high street chains!
• The Real McCoy. -Ace flares
• Great clothes shops! In the High Street your regular 'Gap' and 'Dingles' but if you venture out of the High Street you will be surprised!! In Gandy St a great ladies shop called 'Attitude' selling designer funky nightclub and smart wear. They help adjust all measurements to fit you and you will be guaranteed to turn up somewhere with noone wearing the same as you! Also there is Willy's a man and womans shop specialising in designer wear, D&G and Versace!! Very posh!! If you venture down to Fore Street there are some great clothes shop hidden away, very specialised, and also down this way is Feathers of Isca which make great ball gowns and wedding outfits!
• River Island, Oasis, some fantastic boutiques down Gandy Street.
• Boarding House, also new sk8 shop in Gandi Street. Pandemonium (rave), Bartholomew Arcade, Fore Street. Rockafellas (Harry Hardcore), Lower North Street. The Boarding House. Gap, High Street.

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

• Electric Gypsy on Fore Street has funky retro stuff, plus there's a Goth clothes shop on Fore Street, and of course The Real Mccoy, with loads from classic 20's to modern stuff.
• great bead shop in real mccoy arcade at bottom of fore street
• spacex gallery on preston street (round the back of fore st) is exeters only real contemporary art gallery. graffiti art canvasses at milk, 122 fore street
• Phoenix, off Gandy Street: have exebitions and other stuff.
• There is an art gallery in the museum, but its quite dissapointing. There are some craft shops on the quay, but they all sell exactly the same things you can buy in a department store for less.
• the museum is free and a good time waster if you have nothing else to do as is the cathedral.
• the muesum, especialy the giraffeey tha forms the main centre piece in the central hall. The histoy exibition that records exeter from roman times.the shorp inthe muesum that has great post cards of exeter at reasonable prices.
• place off gandy st. with original 'turtles' comic strips! cowabunga, dude
• Strangely enough Remainders is good and cheap. McCoys is cool too.
• Phoenix
• I too adore the giraffe. I believe he is named Jeremy.
• well this doesn't really count...but i for one am always impressed with the giraffe in the museum
• All sorts! Art centre on Gandy street, Museum which holds alternative events is on Queen St. There seem to be loads of expensive pottery shops aswell, gorgeous stuff in Laura Keeley, top of Iron Bridge.
• great new shop off Fore St Kitch U Like excellent!
• Arts Centre is fab. Great exhibits, good food, lots of activities, and a place to meet folks. King Albert Museum has a great shop, like all the rest on Gandy Street.
• The museum on Queen St is better for arty stuffthan you might think - has a crafty kind of shop and I once saw some Native American folk carving a massive totem pole and singing and stuff. Well, I thought it was cool, anyway.
• Great new place opened in The Cathedral Square, cafe and art gallery different and exciting. also there is the mueseum in Queen st and the maritime mueseum on the quay which also displays the costumes from the Titanic film.
• Exeter has lots of traditional craft and art shops - its culture is is definitely something to be proud of.
• Few good graf spots. Some local writers. Good train lines.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• Hen's teeth, Gandy street has loadsa cult crap
• There's a comic shop on Fore Street, do a range of stuff
• The geeky one half way up fore strett
• Theres one on Queen Street next to Central atation, no idea what its called though!
• Krackers, Bartholomews Arcade, Fore Street = comics, models, posters.

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