The Thousands

The Adelaide shuffle is alive and well in 2012. We’re not talking dance moves – we’re talking the ‘two steps forward, three to the side’ movement of people and places. Shuffle your share houses, shuffle your pub of choice, shuffle your boyfriends, shuffle your gallery staff, shuffle your bandmates. Same circles, different set ups. Clubhouse Lane Boutique is the latest horse on the merry-go-round to shuffle its location, now nesting in the old Wax Museum/Format Zine Shop/Gymnasium space overlooking Rundle Street.

Yet Kelly’s eye for vintage pieces and selected labels – Stolen Girlfriend’s Club, Kuwaii, Cybele, Who Am Eye – is no less sharp now that she’s trading from an altitude. In fact the new store sees plenty of fresh stock, from gorgeous 50s day dresses to so-bad-they’re-good 80s batwing, draped and sequinned numbers. And boys, listen up! If you have a penchant for well cut vintage shirts and snazzy shoes, you’ll be well looked after here. Accessories remain the pièce de résistance at Clubhouse Lane – handmade skull necklaces, delicate Black Jewls pieces and a pristine range of bags are hard to walk past. In all its incarnations and at all of its previous locations, Clubhouse Lane has been a shining light on the Adelaide vintage landscape. Shuffle in to help warm its new house as soon as you can.