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Post by lola on May 8, 2009 21:41:07 GMT
Most of the London market action happens on Saturday and Sunday, it seems.
We'll go to Borough Mkt on Fri for food, but we arrive in town on Monday and were hoping there might be some other interesting markets open earlier in the week. Food, especially. Marylebone High St? Portobello Rd? We'll be across from the V&A for 2 nights compliments of BA, then between Regent's Park and the British museum.
For my 19 yo daughter, can you suggest current interesting market areas for youthful trendy clothing items? (read "cheap")
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 17:06:34 GMT
Maybe patricklondon will see this post and have some information...?
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Post by auntieannie on May 9, 2009 17:17:00 GMT
you can find shops selling quirky stuff around Portobello rd that is open 7/7 as far as I know.
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Post by lola on May 9, 2009 18:09:13 GMT
Thanks, Kerouac and AuntieA. I still have a couple of weeks, so no rush.
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Post by auntieannie on May 9, 2009 18:53:29 GMT
Tilly should be able to help, too!
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Post by patricklondon on May 9, 2009 22:19:52 GMT
Too kind, kerouac... I'm no expert on clothes for teenagers, but Camden Lock on a weekend comes to mind, or Topshop; but I may well be wildly out of date. Monday is not a good day for street markets, generally. There are some fairly ordinary ones open, like Petticoat Lane (which is mostly cheap tat, but there are some interesting shops in and around nearby Spitalfields, even if the Spitalfields market isn't open) or Leather Lane in Holborn (fairly ordinary general market by our standards, but maybe some part of it might seem exotically different to someone from overseas). Or you could try Leadenhall Market in the City, which is a pretty impressive building in its own right: www.leadenhallmarket.co.uk/stall.php
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Post by lola on May 9, 2009 22:32:07 GMT
Thanks, Patrick. We'll look around during the week. How's Berwick mkt?
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Post by patricklondon on May 10, 2009 10:16:35 GMT
A small street market, nothing special in the fruit and veg line, but Berwick St is lined with some interesting shops - secondhand and rare CDs and vinyl records, and also some unusual fabric and related items - silks, for example. You could combine it with Earlham St in Covent Garden, which is not far away, and has some more alternative (but not tending to too cheap) clothes shops and stalls.
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Post by lola on May 10, 2009 13:27:17 GMT
Thanks, Patrick. I'm not a shopper and don't mean to spend any more precious London time at it than I have to, but I do love a food market. My daughter might want to browse Camden lock.
I could use the silks right now: I'm directing a high school Antigone production this week and need to run up just one simple costume by Tuesday. No fabric stores within decent bicycle distance here, and hate having to resort to the car.
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Post by patricklondon on May 10, 2009 20:11:36 GMT
Sounds like a case for draping a spare bed sheet or something of the sort...?
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Post by tillystar on May 11, 2009 8:57:03 GMT
I agree Leather Lane in Holborn is quite interesting and it does have some cheapish clothes and cheapish food places/cafes along the edge as well. Roman Road is a bit further out than other markets but it has lots of good cheap ladies clothes and you can also eat a traditional opie and mash there (not to everyone's taste but definately an experience!) www.gkellypieandmash.co.uk/roman.htmI am local to Greenwich market and love it there. There are 3 sections to the market, the covered market which is arts and craft and some food and is pretty expensive but nice to walk around anyway and another section which is second hand clothes and bric-a-brac. I know you didn't want to spend all yout time in markets but Greenwich is pretty interesting to visit in its own right with a beautiful park, the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory. If you are doing Borough Market in a morning you could think taking a boat to Greenwich (about 40 minutes, you can also get a train that would take about 10 minutes but the boat ride itself is worth doing) and spend the afternoon there and eat your borough market food in the park If early mornings don't scare you Billingsgate fish market is worth a visit just out of interest. london.openguides.org/wiki/?Billingsgate_Market
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Post by lola on May 11, 2009 14:16:02 GMT
Thanks, Tilly! Good suggestions, and noted. I do hope to get down to Greenwich. The Borough/Greenwich combination sounds like a great idea, too.
Patrick, most of the actors will be in some forms of bedsheets, but my Antigone will be dancing (modern interpretive style, to snatches of Gluck's Orfeo et Eurydice yet) and she wanted something silky. I found some polyester China Silk and am off to buy it now. It will be better than you might think. Her ideas tend to be sound.
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Post by Jazz on May 11, 2009 14:57:13 GMT
Lola, what you are doing sounds so creative and fun! 'Draping' is an ancient way of making clothing, long before sewing machines or needles came into being. You can do fabulous things with bedsheets or muslin, and working with poly China silk is sumptuous, lovely drape and movement for your Antigone dancing. Here is a demo of draping, finalfashion.ca/draping-demonstration/and, a more sophisticated version, www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch?trend=trend9
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Post by lola on May 11, 2009 16:31:50 GMT
Amazing, Jazz. Thanks! The demo with the smocking would look perfect and move like a dream. My fingers are itching to try it.
Now who do I know with a dress form?
They are a great group of kids; I've volunteer "worked" with some of them for 9 years. Our #1 objective is to have fun, next to learn something, and then if possible to put on something worth watching. Unfortunately my style is to run around like crazy in the last few days and hope it all comes together.
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Post by patricklondon on May 11, 2009 17:35:27 GMT
Sounds as though you might also be interested to look at a sari shop or two in London - the best are reputed to be in Southall, which is a suburb way out to the west, but you could see a good few around Brick Lane, which is only a short walk away from Spitalfields Market.
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Post by lola on May 11, 2009 17:48:57 GMT
Love saris. Would love to do a Bollywood production. Our minimalist budget, founded by one bake sale/yr, wouldn't support a whole wardrobe of them, though I might get my daughter one. (BTW, have you heard whether the Bollywood Wuthering Hts there now is any good?)
Thanks for Brick lane tip, Patrick.
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Post by spindrift on May 11, 2009 22:07:32 GMT
I don't remember a market in Marylebone High Street. There is a market, however, at Camden Lock. Portobello Road is always interesting.
OP - young people go shopping in Oxford Street...Topshop and Selfridges (cheap clothes for the young on the ground and first floors). Also some nice (cheap) clothes in Uniqlo - a Japanese-owned shop in Regent Street. Try H & M, Oxford Street and New Look.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2009 22:11:58 GMT
I've been curious about how much of the Camden market burned down. It was made out to be a really huge fire last year (?).
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Post by lola on May 12, 2009 0:24:14 GMT
Thanks, Spindrift.
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Post by spindrift on May 12, 2009 22:28:15 GMT
K - I don't know.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 6:34:50 GMT
I saw that the date of the fire was February 2008. BBC News
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Post by spindrift on May 13, 2009 21:56:48 GMT
Don't you think it might be rebuilt by now? want me to go and check it out?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 5:00:04 GMT
I figure that it is rebuilt by now. I went to the Camden market once and it was quite like the Clignancourt flea market in Paris -- a collection of makeshift stalls and deteriorating warehouse buildings. No fire in such a place is a tragedy and new stuff moves in just as fast as the ruins are cleared away.
But that would be an excellent place to make a photo report, spindrift.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2009 5:07:06 GMT
I remember that fire partly because it happened during the Grammy Awards & all the flap over whether or not Amy Winehouse would be allowed to attend. When she accepted her award, she said, "Camden Town is burning down." I read later that it was not as dramatically destructive as it initially appeared. (unlike poor Amy) Here is a recent report. If it took a year for those places to reopen, that fire must have been pretty destructive.
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Post by spindrift on May 14, 2009 7:09:43 GMT
Perhaps I'll make a visit up there if I can get a friend to come with me. I'll wait until the weather improves.
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Post by lola on May 14, 2009 18:46:19 GMT
Jazz, I finished the dress, and my daughter loves it. Thanks!
Sometimes things just work out: after I saw your link, the coworker who gave me a lift to work that day loaned me her dress form. Drag some unbleached muslin out of the trunk, and voila.
Opening night tonight.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2009 20:32:20 GMT
*applause!*
Will there be photos, hmmmmmm?
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Post by lola on May 15, 2009 13:42:17 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 15, 2009 13:57:36 GMT
Lola, if you want to feel triumph on the picture posting front, do this:
Click on Reply instead of Quick Reply so you'll be able to Preview your post.
Go to the page with the photo and look on the left-hand side. There is a box that says "Share this picture".
Choose the Direct Link -- copy it and paste it in a message box here.
Now highlight the link and click on the Image button above the message box (4th from left, 2nd row, with a little picture on it).
Click on Preview below the message box to make sure the photo is showing.
(If it is not, make sure there is no space between the brackets and your link and that both sets of brackets are on the same line as the link. Fix that, and Preview your post again.)
Now post! Once you see your first photo posted, it will open up a whole world of possibilities.
And please -- if you have any problems with this, just PM me.
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Post by lola on May 15, 2009 14:37:10 GMT
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