Retro clothes shops

[Astro]

Some info is taken from "The meaning of Sunglasses" - Hadley Freeman


Vintage became fashionable 10 years ago when Kate Moss and other models started wearing it.

At the same time the high street got good. For the first time the masses were able to buy decent clothes.

Fashion world, wanting money, made out the High Street is manufactured tat, whereas if you want to keep it real, you have to pay £700 for an Ossie Clark dress from Rellik.

Vintage shops do rip customers off. They have an intriging aversion to putting price tags on clothes.



Top Shop have a vintage section - Peekaboo at Topshop (vintage)

Another problem if you muist have suffient lesuire time to trawl though the racks.


Same at Oxfam, but here you can find vintage and designer at cheap prices, and you know your money is going to starving people in the 3rd world, and not into the hands of the vintage fashion seller snob.


I'm still going to have a look at the Beyond Retro warehouse on Cheshire Street though.

At Absolutely Vintage I got an outfit that was ex-stage for £30. It had quadruple seams, which I found out when I tried to unpick it.

[Gav]

Look foward to seeing them

Friday Night


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If you're not on the list, you're not coming in

[Minnie M]

.......... fab photos .........

Thanks for sharing, you both look great

[Gav]

I've just seen that BeyondRetro are opening a new shop in Brighton, Lynda.
I guess the new one will be more convenient for you if you're like me and you I could spend hours nosing around the ones in London.

[Minnie M]

I've just seen that BeyondRetro are opening a new shop in Brighton, Lynda.
I guess the new one will be more convenient for you if you're like me and you I could spend hours nosing around the ones in London.

wow thanks Gav - will check it out

[Astro]

I've just seen that BeyondRetro are opening a new shop in Brighton, Lynda.
I guess the new one will be more convenient for you if you're like me and you I could spend hours nosing around the ones in London.

I found the Beyond Retro in Cheshire Street.

No wonder i had not noticed it before - it's pratically in Bethnal Green.

It is a large building all on it's own, past all the shops.

Didn't buy anything - nothing took my fancy, believe it or not.


I did notice a shop today on Kings Cross Road selling rubber outfits. Certainly not for dancing in, with the exception of CJ.