There is an overwhelming selection of T-shirts at A Wear: mostly cotton and in fashionable colours. The stock is arranged well - if rather tightly packed - so it is easy to mix and match, and easy to be attracted from one rail to the next.
However, the clothes are not always accessible; some of the racks are impossibly high (unless you're hip enough to wear those stacked shoes) and only certain sizes of regular stock (not reduced in the sale) were available. Pleasingly, however, an offer was forthcoming to ring another store to see if sizes could be obtained. The store has the funkier, "young things" clothes on the ground floor, men's fashions upstairs, and various designer labels downstairs.
The changing rooms on the ground floor are communal, and a little worn-looking, with scuffed skirting boards, but, allowing for dust on the air-conditioner unit, reasonably clean. Not enough pegs, though; if you hang up the store's clothes on the one available peg per mirror, your own have to go on the floor. Outside, a sign advises of individual changing rooms downstairs: these were cluttered with cast-off clothes one evening, but tidy when I dropped in again the next morning. A couple of the curtains weren't hanging well, which means extra fiddling to ensure privacy. Why not doors?
The overall appearance of the store is neat, with lots of convenient mirrors, but the lighting is harsh and the music too loud and not to my taste (does any- one want to hear jazz noisily played on a xylophone while they shop?). The windows to the street are blocked by display units, which makes the space rather claustrophobic. And it was very hot. The staff were helpful, pleasant and knowledgable once their attention was caught, but they seemed thin on the ground, perhaps because there was a ongoing sale.
The shop will hold stock for a few days, but won't take deposits. The best feature of the store is its accessibility and the worst, lighting and music. Marks out of 10? Six and a half.