Davina Boutique - 82 Lordship Lane

[Brendan]

Normally don't read these thread but for some reason I read this one. For another even more inexplicable reason I?m posting on it. Just to entertain myself really I suppose.

I must admit this is the first I have heard of ?Camper? so I had to look them up but, 80 bucks for a pair of trainers. Balls! They can?t be that good. My cons only cost about 30 and you can wear a pair of them day in and out for about 5 years. I know this from experience. Or you could just buy a pair of skate shoes that will look better and last the fuck out of those things.

It really is a silly business this fashion nonsense and never ceases to amaze me whenever I open one of its doors for a peak inside.

Anyway back on topic. The booteek place?s shoes were way too expensive.

[AnotherPaul]

I'm hoping for new signage, all that pointless swashy guff has been offending me for months.

[Brendan]

Where is this place anyway? I've never noticed it.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Opposite the 7/11

[SeanMacGabhann]

I quite liked the signage of D's B

[Brendan]

There's a 7/11. Well you learn something new everyday.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Sorry, it's actually a Budgens. :-$

[AnotherPaul]

About the signage, all that black and reckless (yes reckless) use of swashes smacks of faux chic, attempting to envoke baroque aethetics but coming over all chav, or mock-baroque.

To my mind boutiques are about exclusivity, elegance, customer service. Not a load of black shiny plastic with meaningless patterns constructed from letterforms. Letters and their swashes have meaning, just taking them, reapeating them to make a pattern is sloppy and misses the mark by some way.

Rant ends.

I'm guessing it's too late to pitch for the redesign work?

ap

[MsJ]

Sue Wrote:

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> Yeh but the trouble with Primark socks is they are

> unwearable after a couple of washes.

By which time the baby has outgrown them...

[SeanMacGabhann]

compared to the horrors that are:

Budgens/Londis

BetFred

That council/government office opposite Black Cherry

I'll take Davina any day

[Brendan]

Me too.

Well not literally of course, I am a happily married man.

[karter]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> compared to the horrors that are:

>

> Budgens/Londis

> BetFred

> That council/government office opposite Black

> Cherry

>

> I'll take Davina any day

Isn't that council block now a baby shop with gym?

[SeanMacGabhann]

normally I would bow to your knowledge of property at that end of the Lane karter, but I'm not aware of the gym and the baby shop (Mama bebe whatsit) is a few doors down I think

btw - whatever happened to that coffee shop chain you were hinting at a few years back?

[karter]

My knowledge is not only down that end seanmac but all over these days. I was actually referring to the property block on the corner that parkhill purchased ( i think from the council) which is now JoJo bebe and a training studio upstairs with fitness instructors, granted though, it is opposite the edt and not the cherry.

The deal with that chain fell through, i think i did post it back then.

[Sue]

Brendan Wrote:

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> >

> I must admit this is the first I have heard of

> ?Camper? so I had to look them up but, 80 bucks

> for a pair of trainers. Balls! They can?t be that

> good.

xxxx

They're not trainers, they're very sturdy leather lace-ups. At least the ones I am toying with buying are, only unfortunately a work colleague already has an identical pair :)

[wee quinnie]

Isnt it Londis now?:-S:-$

Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> Sorry, it's actually a Budgens. :-$

[Rolo Tomasi]

It is?? Blimey!

[Louisa]

I thought it was Costcutter

Louisa.

[Sue]

I thought it had recently changed to a Londis :-$

[Rolo Tomasi]

well you live and learn!

[Sue]

I'm sure it's not a Budgens any more .....

[SeanMacGabhann]

It was Budgens in it's last incarnation

It is now a Londis - but one where they can't be fagged to put up a proper sign, so subconsciously it still clocks as a Budgens

But whatever it is it's not Davinas - so let's get back on topic

[RosieH]

Reckon Primark kids socks also probably made by blind unijambiste kids in the Sahara somewhere.

Sue, wouldn't for a second suggest that ?20 is reasonable for socks - I've no idea what would be reasonable never having bought them - just that I wouldn't expect them any cheaper from Davina Boutique. Seems to be roughly on a par with what you might pay in any of the chichi establishments in the area.

They did have a very nice Longchamp bag in there, but at a few hundred pounds I decided to pass - s'why I figured socks would be quite pricey too.

[Sue]

Yeh fair enough.

Stupid of me to have gone in really.

Usually if nothing in the window has a price on, I assume everything in the shop will be out of my price range :))

Anyway, if that vile Davina sign disappears, all my trauma will have been worthwhile :))

[Sue]

RosieH Wrote:

Seems to be roughly on a par with what

> you might pay in any of the chichi establishments

> in the area.

>

>

xxxxx

Naming no names, but a child's Christmas present I bought for a fiver in the card shop in Lordship Lane was recently on sale in one of those chichi establishments for over seven quid :-S