London Day 3: Harrods and Tea

Selfridge

Today was our last official day of shopping. We went to more expensive places, so we didn't buy as much. Funny enough, we went to Top Shop AGAIN. We actually went to Mrs. Selfridge inside, but that doesn't count. Before we went to Harrods we went to Selfridge and Debenhams. Selfridge compares to Neimann Marcus in the States- a very expensive store that you go to just to look. Turns out London is a lot more expensive than the U.S. You can buy the same thing in the U.S. for almost half the price. For example, you can buy a medium-sized Chanel bag for a little over a thousand dollars. You get a smaller sized Chanel bag for the same amount of pounds. Even UGGs are a lot more expensive. The tall boots are around $180, but in the U.K. they are 210 pounds - that explains why it isn’t as common here. Debenhams compares to Lord and Taylor and Macy’s- not that spectacular.

Harrods is another store. First of all: it’s huge. Second of all: it’s very classy (that means it’s expensive). They have every brand name you can think of from all around the world. Chanel, Valentino, Pucci, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and much more. It was heaven for me. Unfortunately, those are all out of my price range. However, I wanted to leave with just one thing. I kind of lost hope after the first floor, but my mom ended up finding stuff for my grandmother that were not too expensive. This gave me hope and my mom didn’t want to leave without finding me a nice outfit (my mom is amazing). We went to the youth section and we found sales and things that were affordable. I went nuts. This one sales woman was so helpful and I was able to find an outfit that could pass for Chanel: a jacket and a matching dress. My mom found a gorgeous skirt and matching cardigan that she will be getting tomorrow. After our shopping endeavors, I went to the gift shop that had everything you could think of when it came to Harrods memorabilia. I bought a few things and was quite content. Afterwards, we went to The Tea House. There they serve tea and “tea fancies” (little cakes and such that you can get with your tea that you may “fancy”). Let me just add that at least 80% of the people there were Arabs from the Gulf. It was so nice to see all these covered women wearing scarfs and speaking Arabic. Turns out there was actually the Saudi royal family in The Tea House (I was sitting in a place of royalty!). I had so much fun at Harrods and had quite a wonderful day!