Category: 80s
A favourite: Anita’s Vintage Fashion, Accessories & Textile Fair
Anita’s Vintage Fashion, Accessories & Textiles Fai is a perfect opportunity for anyone looking for textiles and vintage fashion from the 1800′s to the Eighties such as Sixties chiffon, Fifties dresses in fabulous prints as well as Victorian white cottons and Thirties lace and beading. One of London’s best vintage fairs with an amazing selection of very friendly and knowledgeable [...]
A great Saturday market: Spitalfields Affordable Vintage Fair
Spitalfields Market opened its gates on a Saturday for the first time in 200 years this year, launching a regular monthly vintage fair there. Spitalfields Affordable Vintage Fair covers everything from Sixties shifts to vintage whisks to taxidermy – a veritable vintage playground featuring fashion, furniture, homewares, haberdashery, the handmade, menswear, reworked (and everything inbetween). Free [...]
Vintage vs Second Hand vs Retro
The Vintage Style Doctor, a vintage personal shopper for men, contemplates the difference between vintage, second hand and retro. “How to define vintage clothing? This is more difficult to answer than it may seem. Ask three different vintage traders and you may well receive three different answers. One very common answer is that it is [...]
A Camden Lock classic: Berty & Gerty
Berty & Gerty started life amid the rough and tumble of London’s Brick Lane Market as a Sunday morning vintage stall in 2002. After attracting a cult following amongst the East End crowd of young artists and fashion students, the stall transferred full time to the rock and roll environment of the Camden Lock Market [...]
An old vintage favourite: Pop Boutique
Pop Boutique first opened its London outlet in 1996 and has been a staple for many vintage lovers ever since. The little Seven Dials-based shop finds a happy medium between the more upmarket vintage boutiques and the crammed warehouse-sized stores that mark the cheaper end of vintage in London. Pop stocks a good selection of [...]
The vintage menswear specialists: The Vintage Showroom
Situated in Covent Garden’s Seven Dial area , The Vintage Showroom is one of London’s leading outlets for vintage menswear, specialising in English tailoring, workwear, military and sports and leisure wear. If you’re used to your average vintage menswear section, which all too often consists of a few suits, mostly Seventies T-shirts and some Eighties denim, then The Vinatge Showroom [...]
