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Southern Fossil & Mineral Exchange
This store – something like a curiosity museum where most everything’s got a price tag on it – can induce bone-rattling nightmares. If you’re impressed by the selection of skulls from all creatures great and small, you can take some home with you. More subdued are the rocks on which ancient life forms have imprinted images of themselves. Pretty cool, even if it just ends up as a paperweight. A selection of animal puppets is just the thing to appease terrified children.
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Tayrona
Tayrona is named for an ancient indigenous culture that inhabited the mountains of Colombia. But the items that Tayrona carries are by no means limited to South American–influenced styles. The jewelry runs the gamut from clunky costume jewels to delicate gold and silver. Beaded handbags, batik scarves and handcrafted gift items reflect an exotic, international but thoroughly sophisticated style.
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Clothes Contact
Everything here is priced to move by the pound, from Marilyn Munroe halter dresses to '70s European train curtains for your swingin' pad. Gauge your purchases by weight, and you'll spend nothing on a gauzy vintage Gunne Sax sundress, long Isadora Duncan scarf and polyester shirt featuring Italian monuments. Inspect your haul carefully before you hand over that US$20 - purchases are non-returnable.
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Condom World
Boston’s best selection of condoms can be found here, in all sizes, colors and textures. Cinnamon-flavored condoms are not the only way to spice up your sex life, however. Friendly staff can also help you pick out lubricants, adult toys and other sex paraphernalia. And for the easily amused: provocatively shaped ice-cube trays, pasta and straws; X-rated fortune cookies, etc.
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Meyer the Hatter
New Orleans is a hat town, and hats are a good thing. A brim shades the forehead, covers up the sweaty mess the weather turns your hair into and makes you look bad ass. Meyer has a truly astounding inventory of world-class headwear, and it’s serious about its goods: clerks shoo away interlopers who come looking for the wrong type of hat at the wrong time of year.
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Flight 001
Having a nice flight in the zero-legroom era is actually a possibility with the in-flight assistance of Flight 001. Clever carry-ons built to fit international size regulations come with just the right number of pockets for rubber alarm clocks, travel Scrabble sets and the first-class Jet Comfort Kit with earplugs, sleep mask, booties, neck rest, candy and cards.
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Honey Ryder
Looking hot isn't all about showing skin in perpetually chilly SF, but about the sultry shapes and easygoing glamour you'll find at Honey Ryder. Artfully draped jersey tops reveal dangerous curves, and a killer rack of dresses in fun, strategic prints will show off your sexy sass. They don't mess around with pointless 10% off sales, but slash right down 50-70%.
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Goorin Brothers Hats
Peacock feathers, high crowns and local-artist-designed embellishments make it easy for SF hipsters to withstand the fog while standing out in a crowd. Straw fedoras with striped tie-silk bands bring the shade in style, as do flat-brim baseball caps with warrior embroidery by Hawaiian San Franciscan tattoo artist Orly Lacquiao.
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Wearable Art
Decked out with beautiful vintage tables and sporting a mellow vibe, this boutique is filled with designer-made clothing and memorabilia that celebrates the 'hood. Check out the tees and tote bags silkscreened with the profile of a woman with a 'fro, plus earth-tone messenger bags, caps, mugs and aprons that say 'Harlem'.
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Foxy Lady Boutique
Pick up some naughty habits while you're in town - the mini-skirted nun's outfit comes in men's and women's sizes, or perhaps you'd prefer something in the librarian-dominatrix department? If you want your Halloween costume to pay off this year, try the 'Sexy ATM Machine' costume … and yeow, watch those deposits.
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Salmagundi
In our humble opinion, every man should own at least one fedora. And if not a fedora, some other fun and functional head-topper. If you are intrigued by this idea, head to Salmagundi, where style mavens Jessen and Andria can help you find a hat that was made for your head, whether you are male or female.
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Chocolate Moose
In an otherwise staid stretch of L Street, Chocolate Moose lures in shoppers with its campy window displays and smiling brown moose. Among the array of temptations are leopard-printed wine glasses, candy-colored jewelry and wallets, dog-faced cake servers, wind-up toys and the famous punching nun puppet.
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Ferrari Store
Even if you can’t afford to drive one of the high-end luxury Italian sportscars right off the casino’s dealership floor, you can still aspire to lifestyles of the rich and famous at the logo brand shop next door, selling everything from signature keychains and men’s cologne to high-end leather jackets.
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Luna Boston
If you have a thing for handbags, then Luna has a thing for you. With a mile-long list of designers, Luna will have no problem finding you the perfect tote, clutch or satchel. Luna caters to the working girl with its great selection of stylish laptop carriers. Also beach bags, backpacks and baby bags.
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Retroactive
Once you’ve ducked in through the vintage handbags and crazy hats that literally hang from the ceiling, slow down a bit to inspect the jaw-dropping selection of costume jewelry. Beautiful glass and Bakelite pieces plucked from the mid-20th century cost anywhere from $20 to $500.
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Daisy
This flirty California-style boutique sells jeans to fit every kind of booty. The store stocks designer baby tees and sunglasses from names like Billy Blues and Diane von Furstenberg - designers that are affordable to people collecting less than triple-figure salaries.
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ADS Hats
Hats come in handy in SF almost year-round, and this local hat-maker collective sells super-fly lids to keep the fog from chilling your scalp: distressed-leather newsboys, unisex bowlers, svelte 1920s cloches and floppy numbers that would do Janis Joplin proud.
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Compass Market
Think useful things: this basement market is packed with anything you’d ever need while on a relaxing beach vacation. Cheap sandals, umbrellas, deli items, cigars, wine and newspapers – if you forgot to pack it, they have it here.
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Jutta Neumann
These handcrafted leather accessories by German-born Neumann get snapped up as soon as they hit the shelves. Wallets, bags, sandals and coats can be custom-made, or given a special design twist just for you (at a price, of course.)
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Worn Out West
Left your gear at home? Pick up leathers, original-cut Levi's 501s, cockrings and tank tops at this old-school-Castro used-clothing store, and dress like a local. Good fetish wear at great prices. Not much for gals, alas.
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Claudia N
This is the spot to deck yourself out in Miami-style jewelry: blingy, Scarface -showy pieces that let everyone know you’ve got it, and by God you will flaunt it. Think iced-out Hello Kitty watches (seriously).
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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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Steven by Steve Madden
All the glam-y girls from Diablo Cody to Alicia Keys flock to Steven stores around the country for open-toes, flats, heels, boots and all the leather-bound accoutrements a foot and bag freak could ever want.
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Hand & Glove
A simple consignment and fashion boutique specializing in elegant, long fingered, long wristed leather gloves and serving the ladies who wear them. Call it a slice of Paris in homey Breck.
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Hats In The Belfry
From fashionable (but affordable) bonnets to costume caps, this shop has been topping off Georgetown's heads for years. The place has many mirrors and you are welcome to try on the goods.
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