A Street Affair: Oxford Street

London, being the fashion centre of the world, has many options for the shopping bug in you. As it is in many parts of the world, there are fashion streets which bring together numerous fashion brands at one place. One such place is Oxford Street, which is the busiest shopping street in Europe. Oxford Street is more than one and a half mile long, and has over 300 shops and retail outlets, therefore no surprises when we say that London gives you enormous amount of choices when it comes to the word fashion.

Within Reach

There are four tube stations which will take you to the street, the stations are Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road. Although there are many buses running through the street, but tubes are a better options as it will get you there faster because oxford street has really busy traffic and can leave you stuck in the middle of the roads for hours together.

The Fashion Diaries

You will almost faint, if you are visiting the street for the first time. It literally has all the top brands’ outlets. Starting with huge and flagship departmental stores from Selfridges, John Lewis, House of Fraser, Marks & Spencer, and Debenhams, while for fashion lovers there are loads of options like United Colors of Benetton, Primark, which has high quality fashion basics at a price you will love. For the men in your house (assuming that only women are interested in reading Fashion Articles!!), there are various exclusive showrooms like Suits You (which as the name suggests has a fine suiting range) Clarks, BHS, High and Mighty (for Big and tall men!).

You can buy your kids some fun clothes and toys from The Disney store!

And if your husbands are getting bored from your long shopping hours, just leave them at the ‘Games workshop’ but don’t forget to slip in his credit card!!

For the ones who are into sports or just like to flaunt their athletic figures, Nike, Adidas have their fantastic showrooms here, with sports accessories and clothing.

For the gizmo freaks, they can pick their favourite machine from O2, Carphone Warehouse, Currys Digital, Phones4u and T Mobile.

Phew!! This list covers not even half the stores of the street. You have got to be at the street to know what I am talking about, so don’t forget to visit London’s very own Oxford street.