Shopping in Willingboro

Garnering Delaware Today magazine's Best of Delaware award for Best Bargain Shopping Upstate, Designer Consigner owner Michelle Scott-Costa collects a diverse assortment of women’s apparel and accessories. Inventory includes items that initially graced the display cases of high-end designers such as Banana Republic, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci, among others. Of the gently used garments brought in by her 1,200 consigners, Michelle accepts only clean, designer items free of stains and werewolf-claw marks.

Douglas J. Lavenburg, M.D. leads a team of optometrists that oversees the welfare of patients’ eyes and vision with up-to-date optometric techniques. But their services extend beyond eye exams, vision correction, and LASIK surgery. Microdermabrasions, pulsed-light hair removal, and Botox revamp complexions, and facials sprinkled with Obagi professional skin products, keep wrinkles at bay.

A massive golf franchise spanning 100 global locations, Golf USA’s well-appointed indoor golfing facilities foster year-round practice for players of all abilities. Within the Limerick location's 10,000 square feet, floor-to-ceiling mesh nets and languid faux-grass greens emulate practice drives as balls soar in front of video-projected course simulations. A full-service repair shop adjusts and mends golf clubs bent from practicing chip shots with bowling balls, and an expansive showroom displays golf gear from major brands such as Wilson, Titleist, and Adams.

In 1991, the surprise discovery of a Lomo Kompakt Automat—a compact Russian camera—in a Vienna shop struck inspiration into two local students; they reveled in the shadowy corners, lo-fi graininess, saturated colors, and light-leaks that riddled its photos. The duo traveled to the camera's birthplace in St. Petersburg to meet with the original manufacturers at the Lomo PLC factory, and forge a contract for global distribution. Over the next 20 years, the students' venture expanded into Lomography, a global company that develops experimental cameras and accessories and operates stores in 17 countries.

Whether on gallery shop shelves in an online store, Lomography boasts full-size and compact analog cameras, many in hues such as bright blue, green, and goldenrod. Classic cult picture-takers such as the Diana F+, Holga 120, and Russian LC-A+ join experimental eight-frame and fish-eye cameras, pocket cameras, and kinoscopes. Accessories such as flash, wide-angle lens, and fish-eye lens attachments, and a line of darkroom equipment, spur creative exploration and provide justification for annexing the shadiest corners of the basement. Lomography fuels its cameras with film types such as 35mm, 120 medium format, and instant that can be developed at professional studios or through its online development services. The store also compiles photography books and city guides, and fashion such as shirts, bags, and button sets.

At Bespoke Fit, skilled tailors with at least 10 years of experience meticulously measure, cut, sew, and toil over their masterwork: handmade suits, shirts, jackets, and trousers of the finest quality. Unlike factory-made apparel cut by unseasoned hands or machines, bespoke tailoring ensures that artisans know each client's exact measurements and that they attack their craft with a careful attention to detail, from hand-sewing buttonholes to adding personal embroidery on inside pockets. Onsite pattern makers and cutters piece together fine European fabrics from merchants such as Giorgio Armani, Cerruti, and Fabrics by Holland & Sherry. Customers help personalize the design, with more 30 styles of shirt collars and 15,000 varieties of cloth available. Each suit also comes with up to two years of alterations after completion.

At Perfect Events Floral & Gifts, skilled designers gather a wide variety of fresh flowers into traditional and contemporary arrangements, which earned them one of 1-800-FLOWERS.com's Top Performance Awards in the spring of 2011. Their native and tropical flowers make special occasions such as anniversaries, weddings, and birthdays more elegant and memorable. Staff can also recommend customized gift ideas such as gourmet fruit baskets to congratulate a promoted coworker or a monkey returning from his first space voyage. While they primarily serve King of Prussia and the surrounding areas, the artists' creations can also be delivered across the nation.