Shopping for vintage is an up and down, round and round affair. Op-shops can be fusty and tend to cater for the morbidly obese. Paradoxically, those enterprising it-girls can be a little over zealous with their mark-ups. But there’s a new kid in town. At Vintage Carousel, the highs are high and the lows are restricted to bending down for a good look at the shoes.
The lovely, lively owner Rachel Will comes from top-notch vintage stock. Having worked for Queen Street’s Hype & Seek, she’s now tootled down to Hawker Street and decked out number 26 with shoes and bags and clothes and other bits and pieces to make you and your home feel fine. Best of all, she’s got an inexplicable penchant for egalitarian-style pricing, so you can pick up a frock or two without having to wait out the pay week subsisting on Saladas.
-
goods
Naomi Murrell jewelleryThere comes a time in a girl’s life when cheap costume jewellery from chain stores or broken strands of beads from op-shops just don’t...
-
goods
Up TightsPenny Kokinelis is a 26-year-old from Sydney. She makes kaleidoscopic leggings (or, ok, ‘tights’ – WEIRD) for her label Up Tights. Penny...
-
hear
Actress, ‘R.I.P’As rough as the sound of a thousand ladies having their nails filed and as warped as DJ Screw on a sizzurp-fuelled bender, Actress’ R.I.P....
-
goods
Mr. Carter, ‘Grand Tour’ ...The label blends the conflicting elements of luxury and street with designer, Zach Carter’s, distaste for the heritage aesthetic seen in menswear...
-
goods
Blandine Bardeau jewelleryVivid memories from kindergarten include favourite puzzles, getting married on lunchbreaks and making jewellery from pasta shapes and beads cut...
-
goods
Proof SunglassesProof wooden eyewear is owned by three brothers whose father used to own a sawmill. They make sunglasses out of the finest hardwoods known to...