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A collection of boutiques between Union and Spring Streets caters to customers for whom price is no object. Fox’s Gem Shop, Brooks Brothers, and St. John Boutique are the best stops for fine gems and jewelry and high fashion galore.

This neighborhood supermarket and gourmet purveyor of prepared food offers customized salads, pasta dishes, and panini (grilled sandwiches) cooked to order, and creative side dishes galore. The store also sells quality kitchenware.

Call on the famous mail order gag gift company, which sells items in the rubber chicken category of humorous gifts.

Find blown-glass vases, bowls, sculpture, ornaments, garden floats, paperweights, and seasonal items in myriad shapes, colors, and sizes in this exciting workshop.

The place for European styled slacks, skirts, dresses, and accessories for women. Look for designs by Martha Francis Garbed, Lilt in Paris, Comme des Garcons, and Marithe and Francois Girbaud.

One of Seattle’s smaller book retailers (see Broadway) that specializes in gay and lesbian literature and periodicals. The staff is exceptionally well informed and friendly.

Have the staff search for an elusive out-of-print book, or browse the shelves for old but not forgotten favorites.

Every fashionable young woman who’s flirty and flouncy knows of the designer who helped create the image of the Warhol crowd’s Edie Sedgewick. Examine the sale rack before you buy.

The owners scour the Far East, Southeast Asia, and their own roster of Washington artists and designers to handpick crafts, home furnishings, and personal accessories.

For less extravagant spenders, there’s what used to be the locally owned Bon Marche. The new name reflects investment and ownership by the famous Chicago department store chain, but locals still refer to this large store simply as the Bon. Find everything from linen to lingerie, and loveseats to luggage, all at reasonable prices.