The Thousands

At the top of my street is a gun shop, a children’s party service and a church, which pretty much sums up my suburb’s bizarre cultural diversity. I’ve lived in Prospect all my life, and while it’s been many things, ‘cool’ was never quite one of them.

But one day I woke up and almost overnight the very same Prospect was vaguely trendy. There are cute little cafés on Prospect Road and dress shops with exorbitant prices. Maybe it’s poetic that the butcher shop where I used to score free fritz is now one of Adelaide’s better vintage clothes outlets.

Exclusive Vintage Clothing may not be the most creative name, but then it doesn’t lie. Delicate, quaint and utterly charming, you’re basically indebted to purchasing based on the atmosphere alone. But then their assortment of men’s and women’s second-hand retro attire is also top quality, very reasonably priced and oh so suave, which helps.