So High Soho

Love this place, it has everything from incense, to tobacco tins, to fancy dress, to jewellery, to goodness knows what else!
The staff are friendly, funny, and helpful. For the person who said they are rude, I can categorically say you are wrong. I visit here a few times a month and they have always been fantastic.
This shop is a gem! And I love it even more because they have a fragrance oil bargain bin! :-)
My only gripe (and reason it doesn’t get 5 stars) is that the shop is too small and when full it’s near impossible to navigate through everyone.

Being so far away form home and wanting to look fantastic for my first Halloween night out, i came across So High Soho thanks to the amazing Unilocalers.
The service that was given to us was amazing. They were so busy as Halloween was the next night.
I picked up one customs an was told ‘no no no don’t try this Queen of Heart’s costume this one is the best and so much more you.‘
I tried it on and was perfect, they ensure that had everything I need to look the best, a crown, makeup, playing card stockings, heart stickers the works.
The costumes are very well price the shop is small and crowded stuff everywhere but the guys and girls that work there are amazing they know where everything is and the have so much passion for making you feel and look the part you want to play at your party.
If only it wasn’t so far away they could dress me for all fancy dress parties.

They have a good range of fancy dress items for sure. But both times i have been here the staff have been unhelpful, verging on rude. There is another fancy dress further up berwick st where the staff are much more welcoming!

It’s a head shop upstairs and a costume shop down below.
Upstairs: is everything I don’t need but think is cool looking. Random kitschy things that you tend to pick out while trying to find something else you originally came into the store for. Fake mustache variety pack, harmonicas, bandanas in every color of the rainbow, possibly cool cheap jewelry made in china. There are some minor costumey things like some face paints and hair dye and masks and little hats/​fascinators. A selection of various sized religious statues, some doubling as incense holders. Oh and every kind of incense I could ever want.
They do have a jewelry counter that has a little drawer on top filled with tiny studs of various shapes and colors. In case you have a hole that needs filling like I did. (in my right ear thank you very much… sickos)
Downstairs: I was accosted by an older lady, practically pushing me down the stairs into this basement chockablock full of every costume you could ever want or need in your lifetime. To be fair I wouldn’t have even known that this stairway to costumes even existed as I was just looking for some face paint. I didn’t ask about the costumes but I think you can rent some, and buy some and accessory pieces as well. I definitely know where to go to get my next fancy dress costume.

The amazingly friendly and really helpful staff alone almost warrant the five star review.
Serioulsy, ask them anything and they will probably be able to sort you out. And they genuinly seem to love doing their jobs too, none of that overly helpful, smug or pushy shop assistant stuff here.
Lots of costumes, more accessories and even some jewellery and novalties thrown in for good measure.
Prices range from really cheap to a lot more expensive, so if you are on a strict costume budget you gotta be prepared to be pretty strong willed.
I went in looking for a cheap policewomans hat, but came out with something a lot more spectacular, but way more pricy. But is going to make me look rocking at New Years Eve costume party, so bite me, thats what overdrafts are for.

Incredible, cool, surprising, amusing, pleasing, inspiring and highly satisfying. Those are my impressions of this amazing gem hidden rather innocuously in Soho.
I popped into this place needing some gear for a last-​minute 70s party. It took a few minutes to find their fancy dress outfits, which are located downstairs in the basement. But once there, it seemed that every cautious query of mine was met with a confident steer by the friendly and exotically-​attired assistants to a corner of the room, which is absolutely stacked with fancy dress outfits and accessories. Trying everything on was a hoot, and my OTT outfit was quite the toast of the evening’s festivities. Highly recommended!

It was my second Vicars and Tarts get-​together this year. And where should I go to get kitted out again… So High Soho of course. A great little shop with a wonderful costume basement. If I’m at home in London, most Saturdays I’ll pop down to Soho and invariably pop by So High Soho, even if its just to have a look at all the goodies in the window display.

Okay… damn this place is amazing! I thought it would be hard to find a fancy dress costume when I had no friggin’ idea what I wanted to go as. So I bopped along Soho way, popping into Ann Summers and all the local *ahem* colourful shops, till I decided I didn’t actually want to look like a prostitute. Well not on purpose anyway.
Remembering that this place sold some quirky stuff, I went in to find HUGE feathered wings. Venturing further into the store, they have a massive costume selection downstairs. They have everything from famous costumes, to traditional headdresses and elaborate masks.
The lady working the counter was so sweet offering to find me sizes and make sure I had the right outfit.
Do not go anywhere else for your costume, So High Soho has everything you want and is totally affordable. WIN!

To set the scene: It’s 4:15pm on Halloween. I’m meant to be meeting a group of people in Soho in 15 minutes. I have no costume, just an *exceptionally* «beautiful» pink dress, a «ghoul-​dilocks» wig, and a few ideas stemming from a past of high school drama and 90 210 reruns.
Oh p. s., there’s a 40 minute queue around the corner and a man at the front door directing everybody to said queue. But guess what? There’s also a girl at the door acting as a runner for anyone who knows exactly what they want and have cash.
Laura: Do you have a crown? Oh, an black roses? And a hen party sash?
Girl: Yep… be right back.
…3 minutes later she emerged with three different types of crowns, a variety of black roses and three colours of sashes.
Laura: You. Are. Amazing, (I then handed her £5 and happily walked away… until I remembered the blasted bow tie. They won’t have bow ties, will they? Worth a shot…
Laura: bow ties?
Girl: What size and colour?
Yes, in fact they did have bow ties. And they were £2.
Conclusion?
So High Soho for the fancy dress win. And extra bonus stars for keeping cool under pressure!

So High Soho is a great place for shopping for gifts, especially if you don’t know what you want to buy the person. The shop is full of random bits which trigger thoughts of people you know.
There are lots of games, magic tricks and toys for grown ups stocked upstairs as well as books and quirky spiritual stuff. It’s a fun place to visit if you are going through Soho with friends and require a quick activity to keep you amused.

So High Soho is so eclectic. Downstairs they have a costume shop. I spent hours down there trying on boas and Superwoman outfits. Why aren’t costumes daily wardrobe wear? Wouldn’t humanity be much more interesting if we dressed up as alter-​egos everyday, shielding our true identities from strangers, gallivanting around as heroes or truly heinous villains? I vote for 365 days of Halloween.
Anyway, back to the shop. The main floor has an array of really cool randomness. Ashtrays, prints of Marilyn Monroe, games, keychains, tapestries, candles, incense, buttons, mugs; you name it they claim it. When I need to get a gift for someone I come here to buy it. Finding something cool here is guaranteed.

This store is something else. Literally.
This shop is one part retro and one part Halloween.
I came into this store smelling the incense and basically out of curiosity. I ended up getting my dracula teeth for Halloween here.
This place has everything. The whole bottom floor is filled with costumes and makeup, that includes Dracula suitable blood and venetian masks (good for terror).
So High thinly veils it’s support of the drug culture. They even sell bongs.

Just remember folks the fabulous friendly and very good value costume dept is downstairs. Highly recommended !

This is a nice little shop for those who enjoy an alternative life style (what ever that means.). They’ve got lots of trinkets, knick-​knacks and whats-​its. A lot of it would be considered club paraphernalia i.e. glowing things, etc. The staff are friendly and knowlegeable on their products and it certainly saves a trip to camden.