Moda

When a branch of Moda opened up in my home town of Motherwell, the teenage girls went wild. I work part time in retail and on the day of opening customers were coming in, raving about ‘that new claes shoap’ that had opened down the street and was here to revolutionise the female population of Motherwell’s shopping experience. I was already in the know however, as i had visited the Glasgow Moda many times before, so i felt a bit smug to say the least.
Smug, in the sense that i knew how crap it was. Long gone are the days of strech fabrics, glittery bandeu dresses and gaudy plastic faux-​croc skin handbags with diamonte buckles. There is no room in today’s fashion mags for the unsightly thigh high patent boot with pointy toe, or t-​shirt emblazoned with ‘If you think i’m a bitch, you should meet my Mother’ (actual slogan i saw on one of their t-​shirts, i kid you not) However, Moda seems to want to take us back in time and sells exactly the above, and oodles more trash that i could moan about for hours.
The dresses and skirts are mainly aimed at teenage girls (or women who think they’re still teenagers) and aim to be as short as possible, and the shoes as high as possible. Everything seems pretty cheaply made, and very overpriced at that. A viscose glitter strewn dress can cost anything up to £35 and the jeans are £25 and over. Certainly not worth it when you realise it is all cheap fabrics and bad stitching which goes into making them.
Maybe it’s just not my taste, but most things in Moda are there for my general amusement for a little snigger at with my pals when traipsing the shops; some light retail relief, if you will.

So yes, Moda is not the classiest of clothes shops. It has quite a liberal splattering of cheap and nasty fabrics and you won’t find a single hemline cut below mid-​thigh length. But (and there is a but!) you can pick up a couple of cute things in here, and nothing will cost you much more than £20.
The window of Moda usually boasts their best designs, so keep an eye out for the clothing currently gracing the window models. The shop is actually bright and inviting, and not a bad place for a bit of a browse — even if it is fairly likely that you’ll leave empty handed.
If you fancy having a go with some new trends, but don’t want to spend loads of money, then this place is a great to pick up budget versions.