I don’t care for shoes nor jew­el­ery — I’m a t-shirt girl. I’ve always loved col­lect­ing them. They are usu­ally cheap, they last for years and they (almost always) fit. What’s not to like?

I sleep in over­sized rock bands and music t-shirts: Metal­lica, U2, the Red Hot Chili Pep­pers… I have my col­lec­tion of Hard Rock Café t-shirts I started in Bei­jing, in 1999. I also buy design­ers t-shirts online at Thread­less, such this nice one and this funny one. I have blue, red, pink, yel­low, black and green t-shirts, neatly folded in piles in my closet. You can never have too many t-shirts, can’t you?

In France, I bought a bunch of beauty prod­ucts. In Lon­don, I found a t-shirt mecca at Cam­den Mar­ket. Orig­i­nally a craft mar­ket, the Cam­den Lock Mar­ket is now a thriv­ing shop­ping area and hun­dreds of retail­ers sell clothes and sou­venirs. You can find pretty much any­thing, from your basic “I love Lon­don” t-shirt to trendier vin­tage clothes. I fell in love with the Funky Chameleon brand and bought a few embroi­dered tank tops.

It’s also in Cam­den Mar­ket that I fell in love again with my teenage years shoes: the famous Doc Martens shoes. The British boots have long been pop­u­lar with punks and other sub­cul­tures and they were very trendy when I was in high-school. I actu­ally went through a cou­ple of pairs of the iconic Dr. Martens 8-eye boot in pur­ple, and I even brought back to Canada the first pair I got when I was 12 years old. In Lon­don, I fell in love with the same pair of shoes, in cherry red this time — for £40.00, it was quite a deal.

You can fol­low our trip to the U.K here on Flickr: United King­dom.

The Girl on a Swing T-shirt

Funky Chameleon

The Girl with Big Eyes T-shirt	Wounded Bear T-shirt
The Girl with Red hair T-shirt	My Red Doc Martens Shoes

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