Help!

[myz_lilith]

I need you to think like a hippy-emo-baby-gothsicle!

I promised to help out a work colleague. He's going to South Africa to visit some old friends, and wants a present for their 15 year old daughter who is 'a bit gothy'. After persuading him that a top might not be the best idea (I don't know what ~type~ of goth she is for a start, plus the whole cleavage-y or not thing is a minefield...) I suggested a bag, something velvet and sparkly, and something with dragons on, maybe a notebook.

I actually spotted the perfect book AND bag in Whitby, but at that point he still had his heart set on a top so I couldn't buy them then. I tried to get back out there the weekend before last but got turned back by snow, and the weekend just gone I was writing solidly. So I need to find them somewhere in Leeds.

Of course in the old days I'd just pop down to the Corn Exchange, but it's all emptified now. So has anybody got any idea where dragony-gothy-hippy stuff can still be found? Ideally this lunchtime?

(Or failing that, and alternative suggestion for something appropriate I can pick up in Leeds for about £25?)

Comments

[sara-pebbles.livejournal.com]

I'd try the stall in the Merrion Center market (assuming it's still there).

Sara
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[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

There was a dragon-y stall there? (Shows how long it's been since I went to the Market bit, or even the Merion Centre - I used to practically live there as a student!)

(Well, I actually used to live in the pub, but you know what I mean...)

[sara-pebbles.livejournal.com]

There's a goth stall down there. It may have something useful.

Sara
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[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

If it's Wednesday's Wardrobe you're thinking of, that's closed, permanently.

[breadlord.livejournal.com]

Look on t'internet for Rachel Huntingdon bags - they're the ones with the metal plates of the cute goth chicks on. I think you can get them in hellboud or hellraiser or whatever it's called, opposite the side entrance to the markets.

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I know the ones you mean - that'd be perfect :-) Thank you!

[blondelass.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'd say Hellraiser. There's also another one. If Hellraiser is down the road, there's also a shop up the road, on the corner next to Leeds Piercing Studio.

[breadlord.livejournal.com]

And "Wednesday's Wardrobe" in the Merrion markets. If it's still running, not been to Leeds for several months.

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

Hellraiser is still open and they ahve a gopod selection of stuff for kindergoffs.

Hippypottermouse is still around somewhere on Boar Lane as well.

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

And Soho - next door to the piercing studio.

If all else fails - ACE has a good selection of bags, including eastpack stuff.

[gillywoo.livejournal.com]

Alternatively Claire's accessories has a great range of Ruby gloom, Hello Kitty and Skully jewellary.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

How about gust giving her the 25 quid? When I was that age, unless someone was offering to buy me a stereo or something else in the "impossible to even dream about saving pocket money for", I always preferred cash to "stuff". My gran was a big believer in giving money instead of things, as it let the recipient choose what they really wanted. After all, she might prefer an MP3 player or Sisters (or Cybercide!) CD to clothes or bags.

[lostlorelei.livejournal.com]

Yeah i'd say wednesday's wardrobe for lots of bang for your buck or hippypotomous as they do some lush laughing vampire type & other random stuff :)

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

The shop Hippy Potter Mouse is up Boar Lane now, that was the place that fits your description :)

[sensory-chaos.livejournal.com]

Shared Earth shop in the Merrion Centre (towards the back of the centre, opposite a shop that sells those wheelchair things). Its sells the velvet hippy sparkly bags and lots of other things like sparkly mobiles (ones you hang from the ceiling/window) and other pretty sparkly, hippy, goth things too and they are all eco friendly and not too badly priced