Perth Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Perth, 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.
Gingers For Gentlemen
It should be criminal to sport inferior footwear. Not in a ‘haha better call the fashion police' way but a ‘better get a lawyer son' full criminal prosecution. That's why men in Perth who know their heels from their hoofs can be found inspecting the brogue line-up at Gingers.
With a converted Art Deco entrance and an antique '30s sprinkler system on the wall even Al Capone would feel at home here.
Mainly Books
Last week I walked past Mainly Books. You heard me right MAINLY BOOKS! You know - that second hand bookstore run by the cutest old couple (Josephine and Dennis) you ever saw. The one that closed down, and everything went for 50 cents apiece! Turns out the new premises are just three doors down from the original cottage.
Bug & Megs Felt
Bug & Megs are feltophiles. While the other kids were playing ponies, this crafty couple were tinkering with trinkets and fooling with finger puppets. But they soon grew tired of inferior acrylic "felt". They looked everywhere for an Australian supplier of real felt, but alas, none could be found.
Frank Torre Quality Butchers
Who doesn't love a cheeky butcher? The meat trade sure does allow for some flirty puns. Alice fell for Sam's rump roast. Kath couldn't resist Kel's tender loin. Perth ladies have been swooning for the Torre boys' high quality meats since the 50s. The Torres are old school butchers, having passed down through the generations an intimate knowledge of mammals.
Memory Lane
Yo Memory Lane - you have, by far, the biggest collection of historical costumery in Perth. But do you really need walkie-talkies to patrol a space that couldn't be more than 30m long? ("Jill? Jill, you there? Mayday. It's Barbs *crackle* I've got a girl that needs 1920s *crackle* looks like a Size 10.
Hunter Store
When teenager Andy Montgomery was caught wearing a dress his dad prescribed NBC TV's Hunter. The titular Sgt. Rick Hunter (badge# 089), was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking LAPD homicide detective, whose catch phrase "works for me!" was used four or five times an episode.
For-Tomorrow
You know that voice in your head? The one that sounds a little bit like your Mum's and tell you to do sensible things, like ‘save your money for a rainy day'. This is the same voice that gives you hell when you make an extravagant fashion purchase. Well... when this happens you can now politely turn around to that voice and say ‘You never know what tomorrow will bring.
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