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Popular Shopping | Other Shopping Tips | All Tips (13) Barnes and Noble is the greatest bookseller in the USA and problaby in the entire world. I've discovered it for the first time in Georgetown, Washington, DC. That large bookstore with countless number of books, magazines, newspapers, CDs and DVDs on whatever you need located on the three levels, really amazed me. Surely I was especially interested in their travel section which included great choice of travel books and maps both on Washington, DC, the USA and the entire world. I've found even two travel books on Poland. I could spend there hours... but Urszula, my wife, wanted to see cloth stores :-(.
There is a Barnes & Noble Cafe, serving a modified Starbucks beverage menu, along with bakery items from the Cheesecake Factory and bottled beverages from a multitude of vendors. It's open daily from 9.00 am till 11.00 pm (bravo!).
Being at the beginning of quite expensive and long jorney around 12 southern states I didn't buy anything. But I had found a lot of books on the southern states I was just going to visit. I found very useful info on where to go to see aligators haha (in Lousiana) - thank you Barnes and Nobles!
Generally books are expensive in the USA but... in Poland and Europe they are expensive, too. Expect to pay $15 - $25 per travel book, more for thick, illustrated albums; $20 - $30 per DVD (movies) or $10 - $20 per CD (music). Although there are numerous discounts (usually 30% off).
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H&M is a worldwide chain of cloth stores. There are H&M stores in Poland, too. I got to know that H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) company was established in Sweden in 1947.
Urszula, my wife, loved that H & M in Georgetown. It's her first recommendation. The store is located in the shopping mall called The Shops at Georgetown Park. They sell clothes and underwear for ladies, gentelmen, youths, kids and H&M cosmetics as well. Good choice of interesting, trendy, mostly good (but not top) quality, various but fashionable in style (retro, say 20' of 20th century in fall 2004 collection) clothes.
Urszula liked one jacket a lot but... hmm... it was too expensive or maybe we had too few dollars to spend that time haha. She has eventually bought this brown, corduroy cap in my picture (it's her 265th cap, I guess :-).
Very affordable prices. Discounts up to 50%. The Urszula's cap has cost some $5.
Leave a Comment Theme: Men's ClothesAddress: 3222 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 298 67 92Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Wisconsin Ave. NW and Potomac St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.shopsatgeorgetownpark.com/go/fb/guide/store.cfm?StoreInstanceID=2138769148&StoreID=10423&MallID=85 Other Contact: http://www.hm.com
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I thought that "banana republic" was a small, politically unstable country, dependent on limited agriculture (mostly bananas), and ruled by a small, wealthy and corrupt clique. The pejorative term was used especially for some Latin American or Carribean country. But in Georgetown I discovered that Banana Republic is a proper name of, as I noticed later, quite large chain of cloth stores in the USA and Canada.
This large 3-floor store offers no bananas but great variety of clothes and shoes both for women and men, rather more formal clothes for adults than casual clothes for youths.
Clothes or shoes for adults, both women and guys.
A bit expensive. Look for discounts and sales.
Leave a Comment Theme: Women's ClothesAddress: 3200 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 333 2554Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, corner Wisconsin Ave. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.bananarepublic.com
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This small and pretty set up store sells hand-made cosmetics to use and to amaze looking at them. Most of them like numerous bars of soap in different colours and shape look like small works of art and definetely would liven my bathroom up. Many of them are cut into pieces at place and sold by the weight. The company called LUSH based in UK runs over 185 shops around the world.
Bars of soap of colour, size and shape you need.
Very expensive :-(. $25 - $35 per 1 pound (half kilo) of soap.
Leave a Comment Theme: Bath and BeautyAddress: 3066 M Street N.W., Washington, 20007 DCPhone: (202) 333-6950Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Thomas Jefferson St. NW and 31st St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www2.lush.com/cgi-bin/lushdb/stores.html?mv_arg=USA Other Contact: http://www.lush.com
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The Shops at Georgetown Park or shortly the Georgetown Park is a shopping mall which includes a few tenths various stores and boutiques (mostly cloth stores) on four levels as well as a few restaurants in a food court on the level one. The mall is open Mon - Sat 10 am - 9.00 pm and on Sunday from noon till 6.00 pm.
Clothes, shoes, leather and luggage, gifts, books, speciality foods and others. I paid attention to chocolates from Truffles Belgian Chocolates and Dean & Deluca - both looked great but were expensive.
Depends on a store. Mostly above average prices.
Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: 3222 M Street, NW; Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 342 8190Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Wisconsin Ave. NW and Potomac St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.shopsatgeorgetownpark.com Other Contact: +1 (202) 298 5577
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Club Monaco is a trendy men's and women's clothing and cosmetics chain that's a favorite of Monica Lewinsky's. Do you remember that "favourite woman" of former US President Clinton ? :-) Fashion writers describe Club Monaco as a sleek version of Banana Republic.
Well, that pretty set up store in Georgetown offers good or even top quality clothes and accessories for both women and men. It's not my recommendation for a budget visitors and for those looking for casual clothes.
They offer something in the middle way between what maybe called casual and formal clothes. I did window shopping there :-)
Expensive or very expensive clothes. For example $249 per man's wool peacoat I liked. Well, if ou have over $500 to dress up... OK, look for discounts and sales (50% off).
Leave a Comment Theme: Men's ClothesAddress: 3235 M St. NW; Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 965 21 18Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Wisconsin Ave. NW and Potomac St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.clubmonaco.com
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MEXX has been a Dutch-owned and -operated chain of cloth stories since 1980 which fastly has become worldwide known. The store in Georgetown offers variety of clothes for people of all age from babies to adults. High-style looking clothes for women and less variety for men at their 20' and 30' dominate. The clothes are similar in style and choice but more conservative than those in H&M - for example they offer less colorful collection (including all-black clothes). MEXX is more expensive than H&M which should mean better quality as well.
Clothes for babies, kids, youths and adults of both genders. Urszula liked white wool sweaters for some $70.
Affordable or expensive... it depends on your budget. For sure more expensive than H&M but less expensive than Banana Republic. Like always, look for discounts and sales.
Leave a Comment Theme: Women's ClothesAddress: 3229 M Street N.W., Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 339 94 70Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Wisconsin Ave. NW and Potomac St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.mexx.com
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This chain cloth store offers clothes for young folks and mostly for women: urban style for clubbing fans and more casual clothes for guys.
Women's and men's clothes.
Affordable and above average prices.
Leave a Comment Theme: Women's ClothesAddress: 3219 M Street NW; Washington, DC 20007Phone: +1 (202) 337 9316Directions: In Georgetown, in main shopping M Street, between Wisconsin Ave. NW and Potomac St. NW. Map hereWebsite: http://www.georgetowndc.com/showshopslist.php?id=55
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M Street is Georgetown's main shopping street. There are plenty of stores and restaurants on the main street, and underground in the Georgetown Shops
(see this link: http://www.shopsatgeorgetownpark.com/)
M Street has mostly the chain-big name places... and if you turn up Wisconsin off M St and walk a ways you'll find more specialty (and more expensive) boutique like places (individualy owned)
Back to M Street! Here's a list (though not complete) of stores, and addresses!
Banana Republic (3200 M Street)
Coach (3259 M Street)
Diesel (1249 Wisconsin Avenue)
French Connection (1229 Wisconsin Avenue)
Gap (1258 Wisconsin Avenue)
JCrew (3222 M Street)
Kenneth Cole (1259 Wisconsin Avenue)
Ralph Lauren (1249 Wisconsin Avenue)
Steve Madden (3109 M Street)
Urban Outfitters (3111 M Street)
Club Monaco (3235 M Street)
Sephora (3065 M Street)
Pottery Barn (3077 M Street)
BCBG (3210 M Street)
Zara (1234 Wisconsin Avenue)
Barnes and Noble (3040 M Street)
Anthropolgie (3222 M Street)
Artefacto (3333 M Street)
Barney's (3040 M Street)
Blue Mercury (3059 M Street)
MAC (3067 M Street)
Kate Spade (3061 M Street)
Lacoste (3146 M Street)
Christian Bernard (3222 M Street)
Mexx (3229 M Street)
Godiva Chocolatier (3222 M Street)
Niccolo (3222 M Street)
Lush (3066 M Street)
Oh about as much as you have if you like shopping like I do!! Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: M Street, NW, Washington, DCDirections: Closest metro: Foggy Bottom (blue line) and walk up Pennsylvania so that the numbered streets are getting higher.... Penn turns into M St,... and you'll start to see the stores. It's about a 15 minute walk from the metro
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This is the Georgetown branch of the famous bookstore, Barnes and Noble. You can find anything you want in the way of books in this store. There is also a coffee shop where you can go to get revitalized after hours of pouring over books.
It's a wonderful way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
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