Kobkaew Phuket

Color is the whole point here. The dresses hang in bright prints that catch your eye from the street, and more than one shopper has admitted to being pulled in mid-wander through Phuket Old Town without meaning to shop at all. If your wardrobe runs to neutrals, this isn't your stop. If you like a print that announces itself, it very much is.

The other thing people keep mentioning is the woman who runs it. She helps, properly helps, and reviewers who came in unsure of size left with something that fit. The range does cover a spread of sizes rather than the single narrow cut you get in a lot of tourist boutiques, and the fabric quality holds up better than the price bracket of the street would suggest. Several shoppers have bought pieces as gifts. It's a compact space, so a browse takes ten minutes, not an hour, which makes it easy to fold into a walk along Thanon Talang with the heritage shophouses and coffee stops.