Vintage Accessories Stores
A list of the coolest vintage accessories shops around.
Abodeon
Porter Square - Cambridge, MA United StatesEmphasizing the marvelous in the mundane, Abodeon presents a collection of well-designed home furniture and accessories spanning continents and decades. Most items come with a short description stating what you're looking at and why...
Antiques at Pike Place
Pike Place Market - Seattle, WA United StatesFor the untrained, shopping for antiques can be a stressful experience, from digging through piles and squeezing through aisles to recognizing real from reproduction and getting the right price. Antiques at Pike Place makes shopping for antiques...
Archive
Online StoreScour all the vintage racks you want, many of the pieces featured at Archive will be just impossible to track down elsewhere. The Texas-based, online designer vintage boutique is the brainchild of a former New York designer vintage boutique owner...
Atomic Passion
East Village - New York, NY United StatesThe storefront of Atomic Passion kind of looks a super funky post nuclear winter garden. So if you expect to find some funky vintage clothing inside than you won't be disappointed. The place is packed tight with vintage dresses, pants,...
Beacon's Closet
Park Slope - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWe're not sure who this Beacon character is, so perhaps Beacon's Closet should be renamed Every-Hipster-In-Brooklyn's Closet. The large, oft crowded, dependably lively store is a used and vintage clothing shopping free-for-all....
Beacon's Closet
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesWe're not sure who this Beacon character is, so perhaps Beacon's Closet should be renamed Every-Hipster-In-Brooklyn's Closet. The large, oft crowded, dependably lively store is a used and vintage clothing shopping free-for-all....
Bona Drag
Online StoreBona Drag is slang for "nice outfit" and there are certainly plenty of those to go around. Focusing on independent (and generally more affordable) designers, the shop presents girly, indie, sweet pieces that when put together are not...
Cabaret
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaFor all those who think vintage clothing means polyester button-downs and bell-bottoms. For all those that think of John Travolta leisure suits as the typical vintage suit. Meet Cabaret. The sophisticated vintage shop is more Marlena Deitrich...
Candystore
The Mission - San Francisco, CA United StatesThere are definitely some candies, mostly of the classic variety, at CandyStore. But most of the candy comes in the form of eye candy. The cheery space fill racks and shelves with fun, colorful T-shirts, dresses, jackets and the like, often from...
Carla
Mid City/Beverly - Los Angeles, CA United StatesIn an area bursting with glitzy vintage furniture stores where pieces are priced in the compact car price bracket, Carla offers vintage furniture and accessories with zero pretense and less astronomical prices. The '40s-'70s are the eras...
Cherry
West Village - New York, NY United StatesIt's easy to see where all the cool T-shirts and jeans, funky dresses and jackets go when their original owners are done with them. But where do the designer suits and heels go? A good portion of the exclusive designer items of yore go to...
Dear:55
Lower East Side - New York, NY United StatesRemember the avant-garde clothing of the 1980s? The loose silhouettes, the dark hues, the flowing tailoring. Dear:55 honors these constructions in a completely refreshing and exciting way. The store features vintage Comme des Garcons, Yohji...
Deluxe Junk
Fremont - Seattle, WA United StatesPeeking inside Deluxe Junk, the displays and shelves and nooks and corners will appear to be filled with junk, garage sale fodder. Only upon closer inspection will you notice that the junk is in fact deluxe. From fifties era appliances, to svelt...
Eye Candy
NoHo - New York, NY United StatesEven if you're not comfortable wearing a vintage dress or a vintage suit, don't ignore the wealth of vintage accessories out there. Eye Candy knows vintage accessories like none other. Vintage hats, jewelry, purses and shoes are...
Fabulous Fanny's
East Village - New York, NY United StatesWith sunglass and eyeglass frame prices reaching new heights every year, Fabulous Fanny's is an invaluable resource of unique, hip glasses at reasonable prices. Packed in endless drawers, cases and displays are thousands upon thousands of...
Girls Love Shoes
Lower East Side - New York, NY United StatesGirls Love Shoes. What else needs to be said? Maybe that girls have loved shoes ever since they realized walking barefoot through the jungle gave them blisters. Girls Love Shoes is a like a history lesson in women's love of shoes. The shop...
History
Porter Square - Cambridge, MA United StatesReader Suggested: Great independent affordable vintage couture clothing and accessories from owner and former high school history teacher Rachel Hirsch.
Isadora's
Downtown - Seattle, WA United StatesIf you're a fan of Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton, then you really ought to get to know Halston and Adele Simpson. Isadora's specializes in high-end fashion of yesteryear. For women there are dramatic evening dresses of the '40s,...
Lenny & Me
Wicker Park - Chicago, IL United StatesReader Suggested: I like your two picks in chicago (Silver Moon and Una Mae's) Lenny and Me is also amazing! Great selection of vintage clothes and accessories (for guys too), hope you love it too!
Loopy Mango
DUMBO - Brooklyn, NY United StatesFor our taste, there are more than enough outlets in New York promoting high style and higher prices. In a narrow, tall, concrete-floored space that's normally just the venue for avant-garde fashion, Loopy Mango presents a delightfully...
Elsewhere
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- Hint Mag
- IHT Style
- JC Report
- LA.com Shopping
- Men.Style.com
- NY Mag Fashion
- NY Times Fashion & Style
- Refinery 29
- Style.com
- Superfuture