I could Live on River Island

When I studied in Swansea in 2003-04, I was a hard-core New Look and Accesorize girl.  For those unfortunate souls have never had the opportunity to shop in the UK, New Look and Accessorize are two very popular young women clothing stores.  The New Look in Swansea is giant, and one of the less expensive, but still trendy stores.  It sells clothes (standard sizes, pre-teen sizes, and plus sizes), shoes, accessories, underwear, pajamas... pretty much everything.  Accessorize is a quite pricey, but amazing store that sells.... you got it.  Accessorize.  Cute bags, awesome jewelry, knitted items that make me drool, etc.  I still love Accessorize, and probably always will, but I don't find New Look quite as appealing as I used to.  My new love, is River Island.

River Island is a quite a bit more pricey than New Look, but it is also much more original, and much more rock couture.  I kind of want to blow my life savings every time I go in there.  Don't worry, I won't.

Here are a few of my favorite looks from their cool website.  Go here click on "women," then "get the latest look," to see more.