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Welcome to Playing Favorites, wherein local shopping and fashion gurus provide their hidden retail gems—those unique stores around Philly that we might not all know about. Cue the Beatles: We're about to get a little help from our friends.

Years later, Christina Saboe, the owner of South Street's s'mores headquarters Fireside Camp Supply, still rues the day she passed over "the one." That is, the perfect leather jacket from the KOP Mall's Madewell. Nowadays, Madewell's Walnut Street store lands a spot on Saboe's favorite Philly shopping spots, along with six other stores, where Saboe shops everything from Warby Parker frames to cacti and harmonicas.