Eccentrix

I used to work with someone with a serious shoe fetish, and this is where she spent much of her disposable income — a lot of it on thigh-​high boots with impossibly high heels.
Eccentrix also appeals to a teen market because they stock plenty of alternative footwear such as Goth boots with really chunky soles, and boots in lurid colours.
For those with far more conventional tastes in footwear, however, Eccentrix does cater for you as well, with many far tamer styles on offer, from on-​trend shoes to everyday boots with flat or ‘normal’ heels. They stock a particularly wide range of boots of all types, from casual flats to smarter heels.
None of the footwear sold here is of the very finest quality, and the ranges are more geared towards changing fashions rather than offering long-​lasting quality. Eccentrix is a feast for the eyes, though, with such an array of bizarre footwear ranging from kinky and slinky to everyday and practical — all packed into such a compact space.

I’ve been a regular in here for years. It doesn’t matter which particular fashion phase I’ve been in, when looking for footwear, Eccentrix is the first port of call.
The shoes aren’t what you’d call haut couture, and it you’ll not find Jimmy Choo or any of the other massive names, but when you want something a little different, or something for a specific event, they’re bound to have something for you, and in your price range.
They have a huge selection of New Rock boots. In fact boots are well represented — they have some lovely cowboy boots all racked up in the window — and they always draw me.
They also have some amazing killer heels. When I say killer, I mean killer. I’m never completely sure if they’re for men or women, but they are beautiful nonetheless.
They even have a bit of exciting clothing at the back — not rude, but a little more kinky than M&S anyway.
Really worth a look for sensible shoes, work shoes, party shoes, style shoes — well, anything really.

I remember saving my dinner money for weeks to get a pair of shoes from this place for my Christmas school disco.
I was so excited and scared to actually be purchasing grown up shoes from a grown up shop. No more Clark keys for me.
Now entering the shop is like entering another world, like an unusual shoe heaven. Be warned these shoes are not for everyone.
To be truthful a lot have that cheap, stripper kind of look, but girls, sometimes that’s the look we want, ey?
I can honestly say safely that I love spending time in this place. It s as if the slapper inside of me can come out and be free and wearing this reasonable priced footwear gives me a sense of womanhood I had yet to feel with any other shoes that had graced my soles.
There’s something sexy about wearing shoes that you probably shouldn’t be wearing.
The shop itself is pretty small so on Saturdays there’s usually a bit of a bustle. The clientèle range from young girls to Goth’s looking for they’re battering boots to the mixed gender who perform in Minskey’s on a weekend. It really is worth a visit. They stock plenty and are very helpful with fittings and advice.
Go on, have a look, I dare you.

Anyone who’s read my other reviews will have gathered by now that I really, really like shoes.
What is slightly less known is that I have a particular fondness for what most people will consider to be ‘stripper shoes’. That is, 7/​8″ platform stilettos. I would happily become a pole dancer if they paid me in these shoes.
Eccentrix stocks Pleaser shoes, which happens to be my favourite name when it comes to this type of shoe. Finally a shop where I can try them on, rather than just gaze at them longingly on the internet. And there are so many shoes here that I love more than words can say.
And, in the same shop as these sexy, so-​called stripper shoes, are New Rock boots and Crocs. Of all the bizarre combinations to sell in one shop.
The shoes here are not to everyone’s taste, but for those who want something more than just an ordinary pair of shoes, this is the place to go.

This is an interesting locally run shoe shop in the centre of Cardiff, which cannot help to grab your attention as you wander past and scan their shop windows in you peripheral.
As the lovely Tiffany has already mentioned, this store provides something just a little bit different. These are shoes for people who have toes with attitude. A friend of mine in high school bought a big pair of metal-​capped black boots from here, which we referred to ever after as his F**k Off Boots.
Although there is certainly an influx of the slightly perturbing in terms of the footwear on sale here, there is also a good range of other shoes available, some of which are even bordering on the respectable. A good place to take a gander at if you’re bored of other shoe shops.

This shoe shop isn’t exactly where I would go regularly. I don’t think that this shop provides much more than shops for you to wear once and then throw away. They are really cheap — that’s why I’d suggest you buy these shoes and maybe wear them just once… (as part of a fancy dress costume…) because they’ll probably be ruined. To be fair, there are some shoes which are nice — some which are pretty in a slightly off the wall way — but they will never last. It’s almost worth getting shoes from Primark instead, in terms of prices and how long the shoes will last for. Well, it’s alright — you’ll find some shoes that you like probably (even if a lot of the stock is tacky) and the service is good.

I’ve been a loyal customer of this shop since the age of 14, right at the beginning of what my family would later call ‘the Goth years’, eccentrix provided the most bizarre and macabre footwear imaginable.
Consistently it’s been an independent shoe shop run by an unassuming middle aged Asian bloke and a few shop assistants. It’s not exactly a hotbead of depravity and wackiness but the shoes, oh god the shoes are insane.
If you’ve ever wondered where the strippers of Cardiff get their shoes then wonder no more, this place has a huge selection of clear heels, PVC boots and shocking stilettos. They’re probably supplying footwear for every torture garden within a 10 mile radius.
If you’re not a Goth or a stripper, there’s a great range of shoes, from the generic ugg/​crock type thing to completely insane heels that will have people asking «Where on earth did you get those???»