Shopping in Denver
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Mod Livin'
Fans of mid-century modern furniture will be giddy running around this enormous showroom, littered with pristine vintage gear and newly manufactured designer furnishings.
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Pandora Jewelry
This is a friendly shop selling tasteful jewelry – ladies and mens – as well as cards, trinkets, gifts and novelties. The shop doesn't stock items that incorporate animal products.
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Goorin Brothers
A stylish fedora will put a little bounce in your step while strutting through the ritzy Laimer Sq district. This San Francisco-based source for hip, quality-made headwear has a great stock for men and women.
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Peppermint Boutique
This boutique has an effortless charm, and stocks accessories, interesting jewelry and dresses that are hip and casually sophisticated. Considering the careful selection and high quality, it's also surprisingly inexpensive.
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Colorado Rockies Dugout Store
This official shop of the Rockies baseball team is tucked into a mall along 16th St, wall-to-wall with official gear, hats, pendants and team-signed baseballs. During the season you can also buy tickets and get information about games.
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Dragonfly
Cute, casual skirts and sweaters and a small, seasonal selection of accessories make this among the best women's clothing boutiques in Denver. The small label goods from Oliver Sang, Kier + J, and Aude are well selected and classically hip.
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Cry Baby Ranch
Peeking at the price tags of boots hand tooled with skull and crossbones it's quickly evident that this store is not for your work-a-day cowpoke, but the Western-themed home wears and eclectic, bizarre goods (John Wayne lunchbox anyone?) are a blast to browse.
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5 Green Boxes
The sister store down the street sells simple and chic women's clothing and accessories, but this is the place to get a one-of-a-kind piece for your home. From custom remodeled furniture to home items large and small, the aesthetic is classy, vintage and whimsical.
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Tewksbury & Co
'Colorado's Lifestyle Store' is a real 'man cave' selling hand-rolled cigars (which you can smoke inside!), local wine and fly-fishing trips. The staff is a little surly and the bottle selection is limited, but for a glimpse into the local psyche, it's a worthy stop.
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Buffalo Exchange
Part of a growing nationwide chain, Buffalo Exchange in Capitol Hill is a huge space with new and used clothing, retro, futuristic, trad and garish. You want a hip '50s shirt or a little something for a costume party? This is the place. Garments, shoes and accessories are bought and sold.
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Twist & Shout
The selection of used CDs at this brightly lit store is extensive, but head to the little den of used vinyl in the back for rare goodies, original pressings and surprising foreign imports. They also bring a discerning roster of in-store performances that run the gamut of the musical spectrum.
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Champa Fine Wine & Liquor
Descending the stairs into this freshly remodeled bottle shop opens up a heavenly find for discerning self-caterers. They offer a top selection of wine (though most is imported from California) and a mix-and-match six pack option for visitors who want to take a Colorado beer tour on the cheap.
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Mona Lucero
With brick walls and an airy space the interior of this upscale boutique is fittingly like a gallery; the selected designer clothing is artfully made and it's an excellent space to browse. They have versatile, fun women's fashion with a touch of kiche and the collection of handbags are one-of-a-kind.
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Colorado Mills
This is a shopper's paradise: a huge shopping mall west of the Downtown area with more than 200 specialty stores and 1,100,000 sq ft of retail fun. All the big retailers are represented, some with discounted factory outlets, and there are restaurants and food halls. Catch a movie at the United Artists multiplex theater.
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Metroboom
This place is ideal for the man who wants a little pampering, either with custom menswear, personal grooming products, designer fashion or a shave. The packages range between the basic ('Presley') to downright luxurious ('Cary Grant') including haircuts, hot towels and hand treatments (that's just man-talk for a manicure).
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Jerry’s Record Exchange
Behind an out-of-place Bavarian storefront on a scrappy stretch of Colfax is Jerry’s, a den of musty vinyl records that will delight dedicated record hunters. Those willing to thumb through stacks of yesteryear’s hair rock bands, mid-period Streisand and Herb Albert will be rewarded by a smattering of moderately priced gems.
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Capitol Hill Books
It doesn’t have the selection or elan of the Tattered Cover, but over its 30-year life Capitol Hill has retained the rare magic of a real bookshop. The rugs are threadbare. The floor creaks. There’s a random cardboard cutout of Humphrey Bogart. Best of all, the staff of book lovers are quick with helpful suggestions.
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Wilderness Exchange Unlimited
Although it's easy to spend some serious cash at the enormous REI just up the street, it's worth looking into Wilderness Exchange Unlimited before you put down the plastic. In addition to carefully selected outdoor equipment, this shop has an impressive collection of quality used gear (including good deals on hiking boots and down jackets) in the basement.
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Tattered Cover Bookstore
There are plenty of places to curl up with a book in Denver's beloved independent bookstore, one of three locations in the Denver area. Bursting with new and used books, it has a good stock of regional travel guides and nonfiction titles dedicated to the Western states and Western folklore. It also has an on-site cafe, and hosts free film and literature events.
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Plastic Chapel
Rows of clear plastic cubes house all kinds of designer toys, collectible Japanese-made figurines and other limited edition off-the-wall stuff to make this Denver's wickedest toy store. The toys are mostly suited for adult collectors – you're getting high-dollar stuff like Kid Robot and StrangeCo, not Fischer Price. Also hosts design competitions and graphic arts shows.
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Wild West Denver Store
There‘s a mess of Western trinket stores along the upper Mall with nearly identical stock, but this is the brightest of the bunch. It‘s wall-to-wall knickknacks, key chains, kitty sweatshirts and all manner of stuff featuring wolves, buffalo and marginally PC depictions of Native Americans. Higher quality items include some moccasins and gold aspen leaf pendants.
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Tattered Cover Bookstore
Massive and bursting with new and used books, Denver's beloved independent bookstore has a particularly good selection of niche travel guides to the surrounding region and western-states nonfiction and folklore. The East Colfax location has a few more titles, if not the atmosphere, of the original location at the foot of the 16th St Mall. All sites host top-drawer literary events.
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Wax Trax Records
For more than 30 years Wax Trax Records has been trading at this Denver location, stocking a huge quantity CDs, DVDs, vinyl and music paraphernalia. Indie, alternative, punk, goth, folk, rock, hip-hop, jazz, reggae - anything that's a bit edgy you'll either find in store or they'll order for you. There are two adjacent shopfronts - one selling CDs and DVDs, the other exclusively vinyl.
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Cherry Creek Shopping Center
A large collection of exclusive international brands (Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany, Coach) decorate the corridors of Denver's high-end shopping facility, anchored by large department stores of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. Food choices range from cheap-and-quick mall standards such as Panda Express to the elegant Tuscan fare and linen-draped dining room of Brio.
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Fancy Tiger
So you dig crochet and record collecting? You knit a mean sweater and have a few too many tattoos? Welcome to Fancy Tiger, a sophisticated remodel of granny’s yarn barn that’s ground zero for Denver's crafty hipsters. There are classes in the basement (including ones by Jessica, ‘mistress of patchwork’) and a rad selection of fabric, yarn and books.
If you are a little bit more hands-off with your homemade clothes, try the Fancy Tiger Boutique across the street, where local designers hock their wares.
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