Accessory shopping in Vancouver
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Rubber Rainbow Condom Company
Formerly in the West End, this fun, funky condom and lube store serves all manner of experiment-inviting accessories, including studded, vibrating and 'full-fitting strawberry flavored' varieties. Ask for a selection pack if you're going to be in town for a while – you never know how lucky you might get.
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Urban Empire
This wacky, all-out, kitsch trinket shop is just the kind of place you can pick up that Crazy Cat Lady action figure you've always wanted. Other must-haves include bacon-strip sticking plasters and dog-butt flavored chewing gum, which means you'll have plenty of ideas for souvenirs for your friends back home.
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Edie Hats
A cozy and convivial mood-lit jungle of classic and contemporary headgear, squeeze in and try on a few panama hats and a couple of rainbow-colored toques (if you have to ask what a toque is, they'll know you're not Canadian). Staffers are ever-friendly and have an irregular habit of handing out choccies if they like the look of you.
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Womyns' Ware
The welcoming staff at this low-key, ultra-friendly shop – which specializes in an eye-popping menu of women's sex toys – are happy to explain the workings of the 'family jewels' harness' or 'nun's habit flogger.' There's also a good array of books and some games to put the fun back into your sexual shenanigans. Fair-trade committed.
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Lazy Susan's
An eclectic Aladdin's cave lined with tempting trinkets like Scrabble-tile earrings, reproduction old-school greeting cards and obsolete ties transformed into coin purses, it's hard to walk away from here without buying that kitsch-perfect gift for someone back home – possibly a cactus-shaped teapot or a broach resembling a palm tree.
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Birks
A Vancouver institution since 1879 – hence the landmark freestanding clock outside – Birks crafts exquisite heirloom jewelry and its signature line of timepieces. It's an upscale place, similar to Tiffany & Co in the USA, and ideal for picking up that special something in a classy, blue embossed box for a deserving someone back home.
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Umbrella Shop
Often the only outdoor gear you need in Vancouver is a good brolly to fend off the relentless rain. This family-run company started in 1935 and has just the thing, with hundreds of bright and breezy designs that should put a smile on the face of any torrentially drenched visitor. Duck inside, choose a great umbrella then launch yourself back into the tempest.
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Erin Templeton
There's a funky array of vintage and consignment clothing and jewelry here, but the stars of the show are the leather bags, belts, hats and purses made on-site by Erin herself from new and recycled materials (she trained in shoemaking at a London college). They're the kind of must-have items that are hard to resist, no matter how many you already have back home.
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Cannabis Culture Headquarters
For arguments in support of legalization and the campaign to release cannabis advocate Marc Emery from prison for distributing marijuana, duck into the friendly shop and offices of the BC Marijuana Party, in an area of town still known as 'Vansterdam.' With books, hemp clothing and associated paraphernalia, the store also houses a back room where (for $5) you can use the vaporizers to chill out with like-minded buddies.
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