Watermonkey

WONDERFUL staff. Cool unique things. But, it’s really the customer service that takes the cake here. This place is fun, and they pack a lot of merchandise in a little space.
Bonus: It doesn’t reek of patchouli.

People, people, people. Save you social commentary for the editorial pages. This store is one of the reasons I head to Portsmouth. I may not buy anything, but then again I may. My son hooked me up with this store 5 or 6 years ago. The visit here is the experience of a great staff, some cool threads not made by 8 year olds in a foreign sweatshop. The items I’ve bought here last and last. Love the store, love the staff. Keep it up guys.

Best selection of Goorin Bros hats!
Friendly, fun and knowledgeable employees!

This would be your typical hippie/​head shop if not for the wonderful, friendly, and helpful staff. Great place to go for gifts.
They have many hats.

Yeah, this store is expensive and I have only ever bought a pair of sunglasses there, but I still go to this store every single time that I go to Portsmouth. There is something about hippie stores that just makes me so damn happy. They have lots of clothes, posters, hats, and some pipes if I remember correctly. So you might not want to pay the prices and buy anything. But go if you’re in the area and want to hang with some crazy, abrasive, and high employees.

I’m not Emma U. and I’m not going to be mean to the Water Monkey. Nor am I going to drone on about rich people and poor people. This is a clothing store. There’s a ton of t-​shirts, cool tops made out of recycled plastic bottles and bamboo fibers, hats that look like sock monkeys, and other cool things. If it was legal to sell head gear, I think you’d find that here too.
If you like the Odd Showroom and Cool Jewels, you might find something fun in this store. For me it was too loud and there was too much incense in the air, but if this is the store for you, you’ll be okay with it. It’s easy to miss this store because it’s on Vaughan Mall, but just know that it’s across the street from Bull Moose and you’ll find it.
I’m disappointed that they wouldn’t let me take a picture of their sock monkey hat. I know at least one of you would have gone in there to buy it.

I am definitely going to be mean in this review, simply because it needs to be said. I will never understand why hippie clothes are as expensive as designer garments! I understand that some are made from more greener material,… all the more why they should be affordable to the average person. Its crazy nowadays, anything that is for good is immediately taken up by the rich people and then they make other people (poor people) feel inadequate by making them feel bad for not owning the good things. I’ve never seen anything good as in «organic» that is affordable to the poor, though really the inspiration is derived from the poor. (i am not making sense i know…). Yeah so back to Watermonkey, those T-​shirts with Bob Marley, I can find thousands of those shirts NYC in chinatown with a better design and price tag.