What’s In Stock: Antique silver jewelry, local construction company tees, handmade ceramics, and—yes—a nice grip of real-deal aloha shirts.
The Vibe: The easy, breezy surf shack of your dreams, filled with some of the sickest art and curios on the island.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Courtesy of Stickball
What’s In Stock: Character-filled goods mainly from the ’30s to the ’60s—like a 1948 pinup oil painting with an “imperfect face [that] makes you laugh when you see it” or a black moleskin chore coat with “just the right amount of wear and mending that gives it the perfect patina.”
The Vibe: Quirky and off-kilter, like an early Wim Wenders movie in boutique form.
Los Angeles, California
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What’s In Stock: Perfectly faded hoodies and tasty Levi’s jeans mixed in with coveted pieces from the likes of Stone Island, Supreme, and Issey Miyake. (Don’t sleep on the shop’s solid in-house label, either, which pumps out raw denim, tees, and printed mesh shorts.)
The Vibe: A perfect distillation of how modern guys actually dress: a little bit of true vintage here, some fresh archival designer pieces there, and a handful of none-too-fussy essentials to round things out.
Allston, Massachusetts
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What’s In Stock: Collegiate sweatshirts, dusty double-knee pants, and a plethora of retro sportswear.
The Vibe: Enter through the door at the center of a trippy, technicolor mural and you’ll be transported to a world of hardy Carhartt jackets, funky jewelry, and enough chunky cardigans to make Kurt Cobain’s head spin.
Tuckahoe, NY
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Processed with VSCO with f2 presetCourtesy of Wooden Sleepers
What’s In Stock: Just about everything you’d toss into a woodie wagon for a weekend upstate—corduroy-collar hunting jackets, burly chamois shirts, perfectly cropped down vests.
The Vibe: Long before the vintage Americana boom, Wooden Sleepers founder Brian M. Davis was cherry-picking the best of it for his customers, an appreciation, he says, informed by his “upbringing on the idyllic North Fork of Long Island.” A decade-plus into his run as New York’s preeminent authority on retro sportswear, his appointment-only showroom is the best reason to brave the Metro-North out of the city.
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