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SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Melbourne, 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.
The Thousands Shop
For a number of years now, we've been telling you what we like via the internet. We tell, you read, and there's ever a deep dark cyber void in between you and us and a genuine conversation. But not for much longer. The Thousands Shop is taking the online offline, finally providing us with a hard copy space for real time conversation, collaboration and showcasing some of our favourite things in a selective retail environment (with the soon-to-be website offering a selection for online sale).
Two Twenty Two
The last bastion of good-will stands at Two Twenty Two St Georges Road in Fitzroy North.
The first time I went there I spent $150 and bought one vintage ladder, a salvaged wooden book shelf, and one set of large mechanic's drawers. Joseph - the owner, and he in whom chivalry is making its last stand - said "How're you going to get it home?" I said, "I've been working out.
Brown & Bunting
I like the idea of second-hand bookshops. All those ragged travellers from the past jammed into a musty, badly lit detention centre, awaiting rescue. New bookshops are warm and smell nice. Thing is, the books don't come cheap, and perpetual browsing just makes you feel guilty and empty.
Brown & Bunting recognise this disparity and meet us halfway.
Corky Saint Clair
Once upon a time there was a little shop in the Degraves Street Subway named Corky Saint Clair. This shop was living out life in moderate peace, with exceptions from the hippies who wanted to touch all of the glittering jewels and play in the water feature, as well as the middle aged women sharing a bit too much personal information with shop owner Christopher Bril.
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"Because I've nothing else here for you and just because it's easier than the truth. Oh, if there's nothing else that I can do-oo, I'll fly for yooooooooou." Oh, Spandeau Ballet, where would you have been without your synthesizer? Would you have been a few lonely dandies with nothing but a sax and a heart full of sad?
Now more than 40 years old, the synthesizer is the most influential instrument in music today.
The Design Dispensary
Most of what you're going to find here can only be described as cute. I'm not the only one saying it: while I was looking around, two girls walked in and the first thing one of them said was "Oh! Isn't this cute?"
How cute? We're talking alphabet paperclips, speech bubble blackboards and paper napkins printed with a map of Berlin.
We're
Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine, everyone's too busy downing XXXX in string bikinis.
Damien and Lorena at We're believe that stinking weather shouldn't stifle style - and they have Keep Shoes, Life With Bird, Tiny Mammoth and Chronicles on their side.
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