Sugar (new shop)

[Cassius]

I bought a jacket from Moo2 reduced from ?140 to ?10! It was black linen and size 6 - maybe that's why it was in the sale!

[Asset]

I've got a mug with yummy mummy on it that was bought for me as a mother's day present from a 'tat' shop (by one of my quadruplets). I like it.

I don't know why you lot don't just live and let live. Or should we all just buy the same things from the same shops that are sanctioned by a commitee somewhere and if any one wants to stray from the party line they should be banished to say, Islington or Clapham.

Hey ho, each to their own I say.

[Curmudgeon]

If I wasn't so bitter and twisted could I be a yummy mummy ?

[mamafeelgood]

jesus, mootoo is great. it sells marimeko, eva solo and other great skando stuff without having to go into town. there is also a great meat board that has prongs and collects the juices when carving up for a very decent price and is dishwasher friendly.

it sells some very good design compared to a lot of the other tat shops in ED. i'd happily see them shut down but mootoo actually stocks some good stuff for people who like both function and form. i am one of those people, jesus hang me before i'm told that design is pointless and only for people with too much money: that's just sad.

[SeanMacGabhann]

What Asset said. And even I was tempted to buy something in there (same as *Bob* as it happens)

Yes it is overpriced tat/maybenottatbutexpensiveanyway - but it's not like we can't get what we need elsewhere is it? Better that than empty shop fronts

[karter]

Sugar mamma will do well IMHO. The area will support it. Moo too sell Alessi, In Sicily Alessi have many many branches and they are quality products for people that appreciate quality. Moo too are also expanding to the rear it seems if you check out the old garage they had on Frogley Road, no more garage so what that space to see what appears.

Oh and by the way, the proposed new coffee shop on Northcross Road as discussed in a previous thread aint gonna happen.

[Domitianus]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> macroban Wrote:

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> > Sorry to dash you hopes, Sean, but it's not

> going

> > to be a sin bin, just another DummyYummyMummy

> > shop.

>

> Oh dear.

>

> Speaking of which, I couldn't help noticing that

> 'Moo 2' (or whatever it's called) is selling a bag

> which actually has 'YUMMY MUMMY' printed on the

> outside.

>

> If anyone out there has actually bought this item,

> hang your heads in shame.

Is this a bit like the yoofs who wear jeans with the words "Angel", "Princess", "Sexy" etc sequined into the arses? They are guaranteed to be the least angelic, regal and sexy characters you can imagine?

[downsouth]

Are we speaking from experience?

[dulwichmum]

Moo Too is one of the best shops on Lordship Lane - I completely agree with Mamafeelgood. Snorky is bound to approve as he owns the premises! They sell super Italian and Scandi designed homewares and clothes. The shop is run by Maggie who was based on Park Hall Road in West Dulwich (Mad Cow Design) for many years, and she is the best interior designer you are likely to come accross. She is extremely talented and is always keen to advise anyone who wants an opinion or advice. I think that it is a super bonus to have a branch on Lordship Lane - or did you all prefer that dreadful old mobile phone shop or empty shop that was there before.

[Scruffy Mummy]

And if it is another branch of Sugar Mama in Camberwell, they don't sell trickets but clothes and if I recall, they weren't all terribly expensive clothes and went up to larger sizes which makes a change from the usual boutique shops which seem to only stock up to size 12.

[dulwichmum]

Hi Scruffy Mummy!

Long time no see!!!(tu)

[monica]

This topic has completely strayed from sugar mamas who sell vintage clothing to saying negative things about Mootoo,please give it a rest,its boring

[Administrator]

Lounged

[*Bob*]

Good to have the MooToo herd to the rescue.

Obviously the shop is doing well.. and good for them. But I don't think that makes their stock impervious to criticism, does it?

Generally speaking, I find a lot of modern (ie new) design rather soulless and lacking in imagination. Half of it is uber-shiny (these items are displayed on the futuristic shelf along with the kettle designed by FA Porsche) and the other half are re-issues or designs raided from the last fifty years (these items are displayed on the retro shelf with the Sputnik-esque chandelier).

It's not cheap but it often looks cheap. It costs good money but it isn't worth anything.

Just an opinion.

[macroban]

> But I don't think that makes their stock impervious to criticism, does it?

Depends on the neighbours, *Bob*.

[*Bob*]

macroban Wrote:

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> > But I don't think that makes their stock

> impervious to criticism, does it?

>

> Depends on the neighbours, *Bob*.

Indeedy. There are a neighbours' gaffs round my way which have been hit with the 'Mrs Robinson' stick.

[macroban]

You need to watch the mosaic effect, *Bob*.

Meanwhile this seems apposite:

"Heaven home's a place for those who pay."

[*Bob*]

Mosaic effect. Had to look that one up. Like it, Like it. I expect Snorky had this effect in mind when he removed a tantalising CV titbit yesterday or the day before. He's a careful man.

Fortunately I know for a fact that half the homes in ED have been hit with said MR stick.. and tinpot musicians like myself are two a penny (my window cleaner alone 'does for' two of my competitors on his round). So I feel my identity is safe.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

And there was me thinking that's where i could go and get a sugar daddy.

[snorky]

Moo too is the result of too many people with too little sense.

I cant blame ther Moo too people really for making money 0ut of them - selling expensive knick knacks that have pretty much no use whatsoever or will never be used in anger.

Im sure Reginald Perrin started a smiliar chain of shops some time ago and did rather well out of it

[Keef]

I have said this before, but I know the owner of one of these shops (won't say which), and always remember them saying to me something along the lines of "I sell useless stuff at massive prices to bored women with too much money".

It just made me laugh to think of them laughing at every customer that walked out the door having made a purchase.

[SeanMacGabhann]

maybe so Keef, but it wouldn't take much to change that sentence to include beer/men/etc - and now landlords are laughing at me....

[Asset]

right so we should all shop in the few sanctioned shops and we should only purchase functional things. There is obviously no place in this world for ornaments and cushion covers. I'm going to take all the covers of my cushions and throw away any item that is not purely functional and is in any way 'shiny'.

I trust you people who are slagging off these things don't have any cushion covers or tea-light holders or shiny coffee grinders or vases or any such things in your houses.

Actually I've had the same frigging cushion covers for about fifteen years, I might pop to one of the shops in ED and get some NEW ONES!!!!

[snorky]

shopping is no longer soemthing ahs has to be done to keep you alive / fed / warm

its also a bona fide leisure activity

the peverse aquisition of useless goods that fill the great big hole in our lives

what a sick society we live in .

[Brendan]

Well we have to fill the hole in our lives somehow.