River Island

Leaving the experience of shopping at Silverburn aside, this is a pretty decent shop if you’re in the mood for shopping.
Was I in the mood for shopping? No, I don’t really like clothes shopping. I mean, I love shopping if it involves buying things online and having them delivered to my house. But going out clothes shopping is one of my least favourite activities (the looking, the trying on, the looking, the trying on — I hate all that changing), and it’s why I rarely review clothes shops.
Anyway, I found myself in need of a new dress for an event on Tuesday night ( Unilocal’s Gallery of Glasgow, ahem). I’d scoured all my usual spots — H&M, Zara, Oasis … there wasn’t much going around that really took my fancy. My last hope was River Island and I was pretty impressed with the range and prices. The change rooms were tidy, clean and had a couch for your shopping partner to wait. There wasn’t much of a wait at the checkout and staff were friendly.
River Island had definitely gone up a few positions in my favourite shops list after this outing.

This new River Island store is excellent. It’s split into two levels downstairs for Womenswear and upstairs for Menswear, each floor is absolutely huge and has practically every item of stock that River Island have, which means if you see anything online you wont have the problem of going into the store and not being able to find what your looking for. They also seem to ge alot of items that are new out before the Braehead store. For example I bought a dress from here that wasn’t in the Braehead store for another two weeks. The shoe department is really good and has all of the shoe range on display. Staff are very friendly and helpful.