Shopping in Asbury Park

The verdant displays of flowers, plants, and seasonal, locally grown produce at Gold Coast Landscape & Garden Center form a veritable feast for the senses. Trees, perennials, and annuals from growers such as Overdevest Nurseries, Monrovia, and Endless Summer fill the center’s many planters and pots, sharing space with in-season tomatoes and strawberries. The gardening staff helps visitors to create their own vegetable gardens with these tasty fruits and can even lend their expertise to designing backyard ponds. Inside, a farm market further piques appetites with its selection of steaks, salad dressings, and gourmet cheeses freshly picked from the tree.

The Eye Shoppe Luxury Eyewear Boutique’s ocular artistes fashion peepers with custom lenses and designer eyewear. Crafted from first-rate materials with up-to-date lens technology, lenses slip snugly into fashionable frames from Leisure Society, Antonio Miro, and one of the area’s most exclusive collections of Barton Perreira. A stylish array of luxurious shades gracefully complements swimsuits, pantsuits, and spacesuits with elegant designs from Juicy Couture and Kaenon.

Coquette's selection of seasonal fashions is as carefully chosen as a child's bowl of skittles, but less sticky when worn in the summer heat. In addition to stocking women's fashions from popular brands, the boutique carries distinctive pieces from new designers, vintage accessories, and handcrafted jewelry. Pair a floral rosebud tank ($40) with a flower cuff bracelet ($20) to attract pollen-hungry bumblebugs and make honey, or toss on a white, short-sleeve cotton dress ($46) to accentuate your skin’s sun-kissedness after a long day at the beach.

Infinity Woodbury’s shelves read like fashion-house sketchpads as they brim with chic duds for young adults and women of all ages from brands such as Free People, Solow, Vintage Havana, and Lauren Moshi. Evoking the spirit of feminism and all its guts and guile, Free People sweaters, knits, skirts, and accessories suit rough-and-tumble tomboys and sweet-as-Swedish-Fish princesses. Vintage Havana’s cutting-edge fabrics, prints, and styles can upgrade the closets of ladies, mature women, and posh scarecrows.

A collection of more than 1,250 frames from 50 designers fans out amid Roslyn Eye Centre's persian rugs and hardwood fixtures. Licensed opticians fit lenses to frames from Oliver Peoples, Oakley, Cartier, and Prada at an on-site lab. The shop's choice of advanced lenses has grown to embrace emPower! lenses, equipped with a transparent LCD layer and an accelerometer. The electronic glasses instantly adjust their focus based on whether the wearer is looking up at the stars or down at an astrology chart.

The artists at Montage Clothing Inc. specialize in sharing their garment-customizing craft with others. Intimate workshops at the studio ensure one-on-one attention from instructors teaching how to emblazon graphics onto garments or use Adobe software for image design. Students wishing to start their own printed clothing lines can also benefit from the class, with tips for avoiding common pitfalls such as printing their own face onto all their clients’ garments.

The shop simultaneously practices what its staffers preach, with the capability of custom-screening images in up to six vibrant colors onto as many as 10,000 pieces of clothing for clients. An authorized dealer of Ryonet screenprinting supplies, the shop traces the brand’s high-quality ink over everything from personal orders to the seeds of new fashion lines.