I (Allison) was recently in Sioux City, Iowa, and wandered into Antiques on Historic Fourth, which is -- as the title describes -- is an antiques store on Fourth Street in the city's historic district. It was filled with plenty of vintage home furnishings, but also had an unbelievably extensive inventory of antique jewelry, hats, [...]
Certain vintage stores elevate themselves beyond mere inventories and become museums of our past. This is absolutely the case with Sweet Lorain in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a veritable department store of clothes and collectibles from every era of American life sweeping back a century. With 10,000 square feet of racks, shelves and furniture groupings, [...]
Modernism Week in Palm Springs has stretched to 10 days in February, and there are so many tours, lectures, parties and films that it's not possible to attend them all. Reise and Allison chose to spend last Sunday at the "Step Into the Past Modernism Fashion Show," which turned out to be a brilliant choice. [...]
In this week that contains National Thrift Shop Day, it's fascinating to see how the resale universe is expanding. Years ago, the category was pretty much defined by hospital auxiliary thrift shops and big national nonprofits -- Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul, DAV and The Salvation Army. But in the past decade or so, the [...]
