Rodwins

This charmingly old-fashioned shop, open for over fifty years and tucked behind Southgate tube, sells a wonderful array of haberdashery, fancy dress and dancewear. The knowledgeable shop assistants will have your little one kitted out in the perfect ballerina outfit in no time (they cover all dance genres including tap). As well as stocking all manner of trimmings, the higgledy-piggledy haberdashery department has a good range of child friendly fabrics including garishly-coloured fake furs and fuzzy felts. The front of the shop is home to cheap and cheerful selection of fancy dress, monsters masks and cake decorations. North London parents, don't throw a kids' party without popping in first.