Camden Market - Goth Clothes Shopping

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cosmicdolphin
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Okay,

I need suggestions for good places to buy Goth clothes in the Camden market area, since I have myself an afternoon there in a couple of weeks :-)

My black wardrobe has been sorely lacking for some time, so it's shop until I drop time.

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Never actually been.. maybe I should go some time.

So I can only suggest, buy lots of purple. :lol:
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What's goth ? :innocent:
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Sod the black, get yerself some lovely day-glo stuff. Niiiice. 8) :lol: Last time I went I picked up some big bad steely Docs for a tenner. :notworthy:
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Yeah, the cyberdog stuff can be quite cool.

The goth stuff is really, really bad. My humble opinion obviously. But its really bad....and the market is horribly saturated there.

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Just go to Camden and look around, there's loads of shops for fuckin' Goffs to by clobber in, me and the missus were there a few weeks, had a great time pointing and laughing at goffs, they were all over the place, enjoy :D
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Yep, just walk round. Just about every other shop will have something goth in it.

My old man was there last weekend & spent 8 hours there.

Weird when you look back, I bought 8 Sisters boots about 5 years back from Camden... £20 each!!!! What a knob.
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Purple Light wrote:Yep, just walk round. Just about every other shop will have something goth in it.

My old man was there last weekend & spent 8 hours there.

Weird when you look back, I bought 8 Sisters boots about 5 years back from Camden... £20 each!!!! What a knob.
Seven of those hours no doubt spent in the Worlds End! :P
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Camden is great, but mainly due to the fact you've got alot of record stores who have suplied me with alot of sisters material for a fair price.
I also like Camden cos its full of goths, myself not beeing one (like to make that very clear ;) ). it's way better then the mainstream S*** you'd have here, even the goths here (younger ones) have a bl**dy dresscode (wearing the exact same gear,and concider H.I.M. as goth as can be) awell fair enough, not my problem :D

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Johnny Rotten wrote:Camden is great, but mainly due to the fact you've got alot of record stores who have suplied me with alot of sisters material for a fair price.
I'm afraid this is a distant past you're talking about. Of course there is some decent record stores left in Camden, but nothing extremely exciting I'm afraid and very few bootleggers for sure. What a shame. :(

I like Camden because it's a silly place. As for those bloody teen - or not so teen - goffs, they really get on my nerves sometimes. Get real for chrissake ! :roll:
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I'm afraid this is a distant past you're talking about. Of course there is some decent record stores left in Camden, but nothing extremely exciting I'm afraid and very few bootleggers for sure. What a shame.
Well i've been told by several that it used to be quite overloaded with bootleggers and stuff, i've been there myself a few months back, and spend two days in the camden area, and as beeing "quite"new in collecting records(started out four years ago) i did found alot of stuff you can't get your hands on easily here in holland, it seems the sisters, nephilim, psychedelic furs, or christian death was a thing that didn't happen here :(
Outside camden the dutch eqvalent of Ebay (marktplaats) sure does suprice me (last week bought a floodland promo poster 2m 1.5m :D) from time to time, and some fairs do aswell.
to make a long story short, i can see what you mean, but i'm new in this and havent seen the likes of anything as such.

Spend one evening in the Devonshire Arms, played alot of sisters and nephilim and such, it was quite entertaining :D

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Oh I really like Camden, it's so 80s. Nonesuch thing is existing over here. :|

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Camden's more and more becoming a case of "Same sh!t - different shop".
I've found that anything you find in Camden market you can find in that market in Birmingham (that i can't remember the name of.... someone'll help me out here I'm sure...) for about a third less.
The only real exception I've found is one of the places under the arches where I got a very nice leather jacket for £10 - which wasn't too bad.
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Camden was my manor for a few years, LOVE the place, moved this year to even grottier climes...

Here's some good places i know of (hope they're still there!):

Fairy Goth Mother ~ floor above/near Dingwalls/Camden Lock Market
http://www.fairygothmother.com/shop.htm

Try the Black Rose shop (Stables)
http://www.blackrose.co.uk/Visit.php

Hellwear has some cool stuff (Stables)
http://www.hellwear.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/hellwear
(and there's another place round the corner that has a big ol' dracula statue outside, can't miss it :p )

i agree with d00mw0lf though, the diversity in Camden has really gone...
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I’ve never really liked Goth clothing that much, I’ve always preferred 1920s film noir style clothing, trilbies and slip-on loathers and such…
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All the REALLY cool people are wearing teal this year anyway....
teal and red.
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scotty wrote:Just go to Camden and look around, there's loads of shops for fuckin' Goffs to by clobber in, me and the missus were there a few weeks, had a great time pointing and laughing at goffs, they were all over the place, enjoy :D
Sounds like great fun, I'll have to go to London some day. :D
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Rafster wrote:Yeah, the cyberdog stuff can be quite cool.
Amen. Last time I was in Nottingham, I went to Void and picked up a black-and-silver circuit-board design t-shirt. Gorgeous. If the matching trousers weren't £70, I'd have bought them too :eek:
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d00mw0lf wrote: I've found that anything you find in Camden market you can find in that market in Birmingham (that i can't remember the name of.... someone'll help me out here I'm sure...) for about a third less.
Oasis is the place you're refering to, I believe.
Its all very Emo of late apart from the one "dandy fop" stall.
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F*cking goffs... :twisted:
Buy records instead of clothing overthere! :wink:
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Ozpat wrote:F*cking goffs... :twisted:
Buy records instead of clothing overthere! :wink:
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Camden is very very nice, mostly cause you see all kinds of people there, got some nice sisters boots when there was a record fair at the electric ballroom, drinking coffee early on Sunday mornings, got my "black october" lp there , it was in a dirty box hidden by the moston common new wave records you can think of

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Ozpat wrote:F*cking goffs... :twisted:
Buy records instead of clothing overthere! :wink:
Amen ! :notworthy: 8)

Goffic clothes are unreasonably pricey and DIY is more fun anyway. :wink:
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Badlander wrote:
Ozpat wrote:F*cking goffs... :twisted:
Buy records instead of clothing overthere! :wink:
Amen ! :notworthy: 8)

Goffic clothes are unreasonably pricey and DIY is more fun anyway. :wink:
I am actually going to Camden on Friday and am also a keen DIY'er.Is there a Homebase or B&Q in Camden lock market?
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