Brisbane Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Brisbane, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
Something Weird Video
While low budget films flourish in other countries, us ‘civilized' white folks hardly ever make cheap, fun, ‘bad' movies anymore. Which SUCKS.
Something Weird Video specialize in boldly bizarre and bad movies; go-go girls, nudist camps, hippie drug casualties, low-budget sci-fi, gore, juvenile delinquents.
New Farm Shoe Repairs
As throwaway consumerism continues to fall short, many savvy folks are turning back to the trusty ole art of ‘mend and make do' to keep their purchases kicking longer. And one thing we really do need to kick along longer are our shoes. With cheap chain store knockoffs flooding the market - sole-splitting, heel-crumbling, colour-peeling gems that they are - a great pair of shoes is pretty hard to come by.
Vein Store
In 2002 I purchased my first pair of Dunlop Volleys. Wanting to stand out from the crowd, I took them home, lay them on some newspaper and destroyed them with a permanent pen and pink paint.
Once I realised that nothing could disguise the origin of the shoes and that I was rocking the same look as about 20 million other people, I worked out why it's so hard to put the words ‘original' and ‘footwear' together.
Mint Vintage
What more could a girl (or boy) want? Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Missoni, you name it - Mint Vintage has got it. Priding themselves on stocking high quality, one-off pieces from world renowned couture designers, their eBay site and Facebook page is packed with loads of things which can break the bank, hey but who cares, it looks freaking cool.
Gardams Fabrics
Eighty years old and still got it; family-run Gardams Fabrics is an absolute institution to those who have a fondness for fine fabric and finishes. Visit either their City or Indooroopilly stores for bolts of inspiration beckoning to be whipped up into whatever your heart desires.
Gardams buyers travel the world securing the latest fabrics and colours from the likes of Italy, France, India, China, Japan, Britain and of course Australia.
Retro Stop
To many Northsiders, Retro Stop on constantly heaving Lutwyche Road will seem like old news. But as a fresh member to the block, I feel compelled to share my discovery in my new, albeit colourful neighbourhood.
Completely run, loved and nurtured by two friends and lovely ladies to boot, Retro Stop is a haven for vintage and retro pieces.
E&E Electronics
I know it's pretty much as racist as you can get, but when it comes to getting my stuff fixed I'll only trust someone whose grandparents, at the least, were born in South-East Asia. I just don't trust whitey, because sure, he'll probably mend the embarrassing crotch explosion tear in your jeans, or fix whatever faulty consumer electronics item that's currently plaguing you.
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