Last minute gift guide
Time is ticking
Scott James
915 E St., East Village
619-696-0910
www.scottjameseastvillage.com
In last year’s Gift Guide, we recommended Harvey’s Seatbelt bags, available locally at Scott James. Just last week, a visit to the East Village boutique found owner Scott Nisley with a brand-new shipment of houndstooth print Harvey’s, straight outta the box and not yet placed in the shop’s clever cubbyhole display shelves. The bags are indeed made from seatbelts and come in colors ranging from pink to red or black houndstooth to standard black (which looks nothing like the seatbelts we’re used to). Larger bags cost around $130 to $140, but the half-wallet (big enough for five credit cards, cash and ID) is $58. Scott James sells a range of hip accessories (like JFold wallets), home goods and items for kids and pets, too.
Harvey's Seatbelt Bag
Cape Cod Clutter
3523 5th Ave., Hillcrest
619-291-8088
Used bookstores are a great place for unexpected finds for bookish friends and relatives. The tiny space of Cape Cod Clutter offers a first-rate used-bookstore experience, the kind where the shelves are placed in claustrophobia-inducing closeness and are crammed with books of all kinds. Owner Sandee Gillis specializes in regional Americana, poetry and nautical titles, but the store somehow manages to cover all the sections of a larger bookstore. If you ask Gillis, there’s not a bad book among them: “All my children are gems.” Gillis is always up for a chat or a recommendation, but the pleasure of the place is browsing the shelves for the unthought-of, but perfect, title.
Published: 12/11/2007
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