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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.
BRUCE Buy Sell Trade
Today, my dear mother took me to an op shop. Not any op shop, but the greatest op shop in the world. At the beginning I was hesitant, to say the least. I hadn't the energy to scrounge around some damp-smelling hovel desperately searching for a non-moth-bitten jumper or a non-cigarette-burnt skirt.
As we pulled up to the quaint shopping strip of Queens Parade, a clean, neat window display welcomed me.
ACCA's annual book sale
Hey art galleries: get rid of your art and just sell merch. It's what the people want. More monograms on Mike Parr, more Barbara Kruger fridge magnets saying "Grant Denyer is a big bowl of wrong!", more mock-Hockney fashion spectacles you can stamp on, more souvenir cans of real Warhol soup you can explode in a campfire, and more jumbo-sized John Brack pencils you can reverse over in your Hummer.
Don't Come closing sale and sign auction
You've probably heard, they're going to ban lightglobes. Also, Don't Come is closing. Both sad announcements no doubt, but it could work out for you because Misha and Tim are auctioning their giant neon sign! Tim says bidding starts at five grand, "It cost $4000 to make, art appreciates y'all." We're sweetening the deal though, because if you buy it we'll email you this picture of Kanye West at a slightly higher resolution.
Lover - flash sale!
Flash post for a flash sale!
Lover are reducing prices on all their current stock, including their Sacred Hearts collection, in their online store today. It's 50% off everything in a four-hour, end-of-financial-year love-in! Err, Lover-in.
PS: That's 3-7pm Eastern Standard Time. For once, the antipodes prevail.
Tessuti Fabrics
So you've had your eye on a Karen Walker dress, but you thought you could wait. Then you missed it. Then again at the sale. It happens. But now there's an answer. Tessuti Fabrics has a range of short-run and remnant fabrics from some of the best local and international designers, so now you can make your own.
The new Lost and Found Market
Bigger is better. The old Lost and Found Market knew that. You could get lost for days in the vintage frock racks upstairs at that place. Now the 'new' Lost and Found market opened up late last year further up Smith Street and it's not only bigger, but it's brighter and is it just me or has the ratio of good stuff gotten better?
The new Lost and Found market still has everything you could ever want but now it's conveniently located next to everything else you could want - the vintage buttons are next to spools of thread, near the sewing patterns and of course the vintage sewing machine.
The Amazing Sale
It's the loveliest display of camaraderie since Fozzie bought a dragonfly ripple icecream for Kermit in The Muppet Movie of 1979. It's also the most fashionable. For one weekend only, a cohort of Melbourne designers band together to bring Fitzroy their idea of a garage sale. For lunatic-ish bargains and friendly faces, head to Gore Street.
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