Hello Sailor Vintage Fair
There are two things sailors really like: looking jaunty and drinking. Oh no wait - there are three things sailors really like. And at least two of them can be indulged in this Sunday at the Carlton. The bar is being transformed into a market, with 15 stalls in the dining room, the front balcony and the back courtyard selling vintage designer duds new and old, glamorous jewellery, jaunty jewellery, shoes and sundry trinkets.
Is Not Magazine Fire Sale
Consider this their fifth curtain call. The Is Not party has been had. Issue 11 is out on the streets and it's being covered up with Bliss N Eso posters already. But when one troupe of editors find themselves dodging debt collectors, removing all evidence they ever had a business and selling off their assets is the wisest move to make.
Swensk 'Find Our Store' Sale
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If you're walking through the city between this Friday and next Saturday and you see people acting suspiciously... follow them. Chances are that they are going to, or looking for, Swensk - Melbourne's new Swedish clothing store. The 'Find Our Store' Sale is offering 30% off selected Filippa K, Whyred and Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair stock.
Big Garage Sale at St Jeromes
There has been many a market regular who's pondered the origin of ‘flea market'. Like, was the first flea market run by business-savvy fleas that sold really tiny things for big money? Or did people gather to trade their wingless insects with one another? The answer, curious people, is this: the first flea market is said to have been born out of the French Marche aux puces in the northern suburbs of Paris.
Alice Euphemia's BIGGEST EVER Royally Large Sale
‘Biggest ever' is a claim usually made by Napoleon Rosales via your trash folder. But get excited, because we've been told to bandy it around in reference to Alice Euphemia's BIGGEST EVER sale, which will deliver guaranteed results without the need for nasal spray technology. We have also been informed that this is a ‘Royally Large' sale, which differs from the more conventional ‘Lowborn Sales' you often see about town.
Plane
One man had a vision, and that vision was that the good people of Melbourne would abandon their consumerist label-whoring and embrace good old fashioned quality basics. From this lofty ideal came a store, Plane, which houses a broad collection of plain (get it?!) clothing from all over the world. One of the few places to stock American Apparel before their flagship opened, Plane also stocks an array of wardrobe staples …sans pretentious faux-French graphics and whatever else kids are wearing on their clothes these days.
Massive Sale at The Carlton Hotel
We all know that 'warehouse sale' is more often than not code for 'ill-fitting, random, last-season consignment stock', and that it could end in tears as you fist-fight over clothes you neither want nor need. You also have to be prepared to bare all in communal change rooms (tip - wear leggings...) and see the physical embodiment of your over-spending as you hand over notes at a cash-only register.
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