Wellbeing lifestyle brand offers chic and feminine clothes for Yoga and Pilates on one of the most attractive websites around, with a range which includes t-shirts, tops, pants, jackets and catsuits - wear them to class or out on the town, it's totally up to you. As well as the boutique you can browse their favourite spa retreats, learn how to make your own body scrubs (sugar-cream anyone?) and find other beautiful wellbeing accessories. For Yoga or Pilates addicts this website is a must.
This young, urban clothing company sells casual sporty lightweight gear in the summer months for guys and girls, plus trendy skiwear in the winter (hence the name). There are colour options for just about all the clothes, from the Flawless T to the Java Jive pant and you can see straight away what's available in stock or what you'll have to wait for. This isn't a huge collection but it's fun and well priced and definitely worth having a look at.
You’ll find pretty well the full range at the Puma online store, and once you’ve hung about for a while for the flash intro to pass (grrr) you can order their unbelievably comfortable casual trainers (of which I am a huge fan), serious sports shoes and casual and sporting gear for both men and women. There are also sports bags, shades, belts and watches for real Puma addicts.
As one of the largest UK sports retailers there is, as you’d expect, a huge range of sports shoes including Nike, Puma, Reebok, Lacoste and Addidas. Their clothing ranges are also extensive and taken from the same brands and the ordering system is extremely easy to use. With each pair of shoes (or each item of clothing) they show you other items to go with. Clever or what? They aim to make delivery within five working days of receipt of your order.
If you're looking for the latest skiing gear, a cold weather jacket or clothes and accessories to take you hiking up into the hills you'll find everything here.
Route One is a young, committed, independent store aimed at inline skate and skateboard riders but having such a large selection of shoes, clothing and accessories by brands such as Converse, Atticus, Fenchurch, Billabong and Carhatt (and, I have to confess, loads of others I haven't heard of) it's bound to appeal to anyone who likes a contemporary, sporty look. The service is speedy and reliable.
I love Nike but hate long flash intros so be warned, you’ll have to wait a bit to get to the products themselves. Go and make a cuppa or something while it’s loading. This is probably one of the most beautiful to look at and cleverly designs sports stores of all but boy, do I hate having to wait. All the clothing and footwear is here for everyone and you can customise your shoes as well. They deliver to the UK, EU and US.
This is the place to find a good range of sports shoes by Nike, Addidas, Puma, Reebok, Converse and Lacoste. There's a good selection of sports clothing as well, some of which is discounted, delivery is free if you spend over £100 and returns are free as well.
Shoe-Shop.com carries a huge range of shoes from sports shoes of every description including Adidas, Reebok and Puma to Patrick Cox Wannabees and they'll ship to you anywhere in the world. This is a very easy site to navigate and the choice is almost overwhelming so make sure you've plenty of time before you plan to sit down and browse.
When you first take a look at the fatface.co.uk website you may be a little disconcerted. It’s certainly not like most others with pictures and type all being used to reinforce fatface’s idiosyncratic ‘cool’ active style. But it works together. You’ll find a wide selection of tops and t-shirts, jackets and fleece, denim and sweats, all in unique fabrics and style and their more often than not muted colour palette. They’ll deliver to you anywhere in the world and offer an express delivery service in the UK. A great website!
Here's another website to get you going, where you'll find an excellent and stylish range of clothes for the gym and for yoga, available in basic colours such as black, grey and pink. They also offer sleek (and minimal) beachwear, chic and well priced skiwear plus accessories such as leg and arm warmers and books on yoga. Postage is free on orders over £50 (UK) and they'll deliver worldwide.
Here's a great site just for women, and covering sports such as fitness, cycling, rock climbing, skiing and swimming. They don't offer any products that are adaptations of mens sportswear and just go for the best that's been specifically designed for women. There's a great selection, whether you're a dedicated sportswoman or just want the look. It's well worth a browse. Brands include Puma, Adidas, Berghaus, Bolle, Helly Hanson and Salomon.
Figleaves collection of activewear now includes designers such as Calvin Klein, Puma, Elle, Candida Faria, Venice Beach and Tommy Hilfiger and the range is growing all the time. You’ll find bright colour and good shapes here (with lots of stretch) and if you haven’t tried figleaves’s service before now you should certainly give it a go as it really is excellent and Worldwide shipping is free. As figleaves main area of business is lingerie you’ll also be able to find your sports bras here as well.
Not as expensive as Abercrombie (and not quite so well known, particularly over here), American Eagle offers a wide selection of colourful, young, modern, casual clothing extremely popular across the pond and I wish they were just down the road here, too. Think preppy striped shirts, humorous and sporty t-shirts and great jeans, hoodies and jackets plus some camis and underwear and a good range of shoes. Thankfully they have no problem in shipping to you anywhere in the world using USPS Global Express Mail.
This is a modern, well laid out site offering a very good range of 'surfwear, skatewear and streetwear'. Hoodys, t'shirts, trousers, shoes and some very good gift ideas from lots of brands including Quicksilver, Billabong, Redeye, O'Neill, Vans, Ezekial and The Art Company. There's a huge amount of product on offer here so allow yourself plenty of time to browse.
Now you can buy your Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts and American Eagle shorts from one online retailer and despite the fact that they're based in Florida, they say that you shouldn't be charged duty and all prices here are in sterling. Brands on offer are the aforesaide Aberdrombie and American Eagle, Converse, Hollister (A & F again), K-Swiss and Timberland.
At Adidas’s contemporarily designed online store you can find all their footwear and clothing together in one place and much better than that, you can also read up on all the latest sports innovations from this famous brand. There's sports clothing and footwear for men, women and kids plus the Adidas by Stella McCartney line. Go there and be prepared to start training……soon
This is an excellent sportwear destination, whether you're looking for exercise clothes for the gym or just for relaxing in. Offering brands USA Pro, Pure Lime, Deha and their own, you'll find a selection of hoodies and jackets, sweatshirts, pants, outerwear, sports bras and accessories in a good range of colours and styles. Everything is easy to see and described in details and even better, you can immediately see what's in stock.
Strictly for the sailiing enthusiast (well maybe not totally) Quba offers and attractive range of jackets, tops, trousers and skirts (for the girls only, of course) for both men and women. If you're looking for casual summer gear this would be a good place to check out as the shorts, trousers and tops look excellent although they're definitely not cheap. There's a good selection of beachbags and holdalls here as well.
Shopbop is a clever, modern online boutique offering a wide lists of brands, including Ella Moss, Beatrix Ong, Juicy Couture, Diane von Furstenberg, Chip and Pepper, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Hudson, Kooba and Seven for all Mankind to name just a few, and offering to ship them just about anywhere in the world by express delivery. Preview the trends here each season so that you’ll know exactly what you should be buying now and then shop by trend, designer or category. There’s a great deal to see so check out this site when you’ve time to spare.
There's an excellent selection of modern daywear and accessories available from the Tommy Hilfiger website, from cashmere/cotton cable knitwear, jeans and winter jackets and coats to bags and wallets, snow boots and shoes and chic skiwear. There's also a gift section and the option of gift boxing for all items offered. This is a really easy website to shop from and a must to have a look at if you want to add some new casualwear to your wardrobe now.
If you're missing your Abercrombie/American Eagle fix this year you should take a look at this website, offering 'cool' and idiosyncratic sportwear including jeans, hoodys, fun, printed t-shirts, polo shirts and accessories for girls and guys. The website is beautifully designed and great fun to browse and if you have a teenage daughter, as I do, you’ll probably have seen a great deal of this clothing brand about.
Don't visit this website unless you're feeling energetic (although if you're not it'll definitely push you in the right direction). Here you can see, beautifully photographed, the Casall range of sportwear, which includes basic activewear, tennis, running, yoga and Pilates and golf clothing plus underwear and accessories such as socks, waterbottles and kit bags. In the accessories section there are gym balls, ab rollers, gloves and more.
Where online can you find the clothes (and LBDs) of Roberto Cavalli (and the less expensive line Just Cavalli), John Galliano, Theory, Moschino, VJC Versace and more? Well Harrods, of course. If you haven't looked at their well designed website recently and the truly excellent and constantly increasing range then you should do so now. Alongside the clothing there are the beauty ranges, men's and kidswear, toys, home accessories and lots of gift ideas.
The trouble is it's all to easy to slip onto this site and see such a wide choice you don't want to bother to go and visit elsewhere. Couple that with the value for money, excellent service and well edited range of everything and it's difficult to get away. The fashion range is limited but you can also find contemporary handbags by Francesco Biasia and Ri2K, jewels by Dower and Hall and Lola Rose, a wide selection of beauty products and all the home accessories, kitchen equipment, fitness gear and gifts you could possibly want.
Joules is a clothing website with a difference; beautifully photographed and well laid out, there are some excellent fun sporty separates for just about everyone, provided you like stripes and colours (although lots of items are available in black/jet as well). It's mainly aimed at the riding fraternity although many of their clothes, particularly the jackets and fleece, would have a much wider appeal. For express delivery call them.
Little Sky specialise in children’s branded surf, ski and fashion wear, footwear & accessories for kids 0–16years. On their website you'll find a really good range of functional, fashionable and technical wear from brands including Quiksilver, Roxy, Billabong, O’neill, Animal, Oxbow, Timberland, Kookai, Elle, Reef, Columbia, Trespass, Brugi and many more. In the summer you can find all you need for your holiday in the sun from bikini’s, boardshorts and funky shirts to UV suits, rash vests and footwear and in winter they focus on skiwear and accessories.
This is where the young chic American denim brigade shop for their jeans, jackets and tees and now you can buy direct from their UK based website with all prices shown in pounds and duty included. The style is very ‘Casual Luxury’ and they even call it that. Take a look around if you can tear yourself away from the outstanding photographs of the most beautiful models (mostly men). Sizing is SMALL particularly for fitted items so if in any doubt go up a size. Of course you can now shop in their Savile Row, London, store but if you can’t get there………