Category: Menswear

New Carnaby Street vintage pop-up: One Month Only

| April 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
New Carnaby Street vintage pop-up: One Month Only

For a limited period Carnaby Street, the original home of independent British fashion, is now home to a new pop-up vintage shop ‘one month only’, a project that is bringing back designs form the Sixties and other vintage eras. The shop is located in  Kingly Court and stocks both men’s and women’s vintage. Location: Kingly [...]

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New vintage shop in Crouch End: Painted Black

| February 29, 2012 | 0 Comments
New vintage shop in Crouch End: Painted Black

Crouch End still has surprisingly few vintage shops so it’s welcome news that new vintage store Painted Black has opened its doors just off easy-to-access Park Road. Specialising in vintage womens and menswear, home deco items and cameras, Painted Black is easy to browse and well-laid out with a great selection of handpicked stock. There [...]

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For quality classics: Levisons

| January 4, 2012 | 0 Comments
For quality classics: Levisons

There are plenty of reasons to face the weekend crowds on Brick Lane, and Levisons on Cheshire Street is definitely one of them. The small shop is packed full of excellent, handpicked menswear from the Twenties to the Seventies. Owner Michael and charming shop keeper Ricardo sure know their stuff and their quality tonic suits, [...]

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A Camden Lock classic: Berty & Gerty

| October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
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 [...]

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An old vintage favourite: Pop Boutique

| October 27, 2011 | 0 Comments
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 [...]

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The vintage menswear specialists: The Vintage Showroom

| October 22, 2011 | 0 Comments
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 Vintage Showroom [...]

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