Vintage shopping in Melbourne and Victoria

Retail Vintage shops
- Empire Vintage.
- Retrostar
- Dorothy and Evelyn.
- Poppet Vintage.

Vintage Clothing Fairs and Markets
- Blackbird Markets.
- Frankly My Dear – monthly vintage fair, Geelong (Facebook page)
- Hello Sailor (Facebook page)
- Lah De Da Bazaar
- Round She goes
- Sunday Best.
- The Way We Wear Fair.

Tours
- A Vintage Outing: Hidden Secrets Shopping Tour.
- Melbourne Op Shop Tours.

Vintage shopping elsewhere in Australia

Retail vintage shops
- The Purple Bedroom (Brisbane) .
- Winifred and Bance (Perth).
- LaLa Orange (Perth)
- The Vintage Clothing Shop (Sydney).
- Coco Repose (Sydney).
- The Wardrobe Store (Sydney).

Vintage Clothing Fairs and Markets
- Brisbane Vintage Fashion Fairs.
- Marky Markets – Brisbane.
- The Way We Wear Fair – Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
- Love Vintage Fairs – Sydney.
- Vanity Fair Markets – Sydney.

Online Vintage shopping in Australia

Online vintage shops
- Little Bag of Sugar vintage childrenswear.
- LaLa Orange.
- Bowerbird Vintage.
- From Here to Eternity.
- The Wardrobe Store.
- Vintage Clothing.
- Beaut Vintage.
- Bonnie Rose Vintage Clothing .
- Claire Inc: ’80s and ’90s designer fashions.
- Vintage Designs: hats by Jo-anne.

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Vintage, Fashion and Hand Made Blogs – Australia:
- Bowerbird Vintage Blog.
- Super Kawaii Mama.
- Lady Melbourne.
- I Wear a Hat.
- I Op, therefore I am.
- The Vintage Detective.
- Esme and the lane way
- Thousand Threads.
- Flightless Boyds.
- Moo I Made It!.
- Mecino.
- Peeptoes and Pedicures.
- Fashion Hayley.
- Vintage Verve.
- Countess de Vintage.
- Hathersage Hall.
- Starashan.
- The Small Stuff.
- Trish Hunter Finds.
- The Vintage Year.
- Little Eco Footprints.
- Melbourne Vintage.
- Style Melbourne.
- Konstant Kaos.
- Retro Age Vintage Fabrics.
- Ink and Leather.
- Sea of Ghosts.
- Vintage Venus.
- Mrs Brunswick.
- Lorna Lino – Step aside, let the dog see the rabbit.
- Harbourmaster.
- The Lark.
- I like you.
- Lavender and Yolk.
- Digs Frocks and Books.
- Ballarat Vintage Style.
- Pearls for Breakfast.
- Alice Jean’s – vintage living in a modern world.
- Dreaming of Dior – Charlotte Smith.
- The Darnell Collection.
- Atomic Mum.
- Mystery Flight Vintage.
- Page 63 of your Manual.
- Turnips and Toile.
- Bess Georgette.
- Tiki Doll Twitch.

Vintage and Fashion Blogs – International:
- Gala Darling.
- Vintage Indie.
- Vintage Fashion Guild Blog.
- Denise Brain.
- Dress a Day.
- Liebemarlene Vintage.
- Vintage Gent.
- Real Vintage – Dorothea’s Closet.
- The Vintage Traveler.
- Vintage Clothing Love.
- Couture Allure.
- Sew Retro.
- Queens of Vintage.
- The Sartorialist.
- Chronically Vintage.
- Advanced Style.
- Tales from a vintage wardrobe.
- Diary of a Vintage Girl (Fleur de Guerre).
- Oil and Rouge: A Vintage Affair.
- Diamond Dame – NZ.
- Red Legs in Soho – London.
- Reflections of Vintage.

Other Blogs:
- Fitzroyalty: a Fitzroy Blog.
- Infotrope.
- Underground Melbourne.
- Mel: Hot or Not.
- Miss Curieux.

Favourite people:
- Dita von Teese.
- Sche.
- Alannah Hill.
- La Fille D’o.
- October Effigies.
- Pia Andersen and Vintage Allsorts.
- The Lindy Charm School for Girls.

Essential Institutions:
- Vintage Fashion Guild.
- National Trust of Australia.
- National Gallery of Victoria.
- Powerhouse Museum.
- Melbourne Museum.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- The Costume Institute: NY Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Craft Victoria.
- Loel Thomson: The Costume Collection
- The Cavalcade – Sydney.
- Australian National Maritime Museum – Sydney.

Useful sites
- Ask Andy About Clothes. Great for menswear information.
- The Vintage Fashion Index
- Freebase
- Style Will Save Us
- The Price Guide – Carter’s Online Price Guide
- Living Creatively – online community dedicated to creativity
- White Hat – Guide to Melbourne Markets (and other things).
- Vintage Sewing Patterns Wiki.

Great shops
- Retrospec’d – repro swing wear.
- Faster Pussycat – repro rockabilly gear.
- Vicious Venus – fabulous corsetry and repro styles.
- Buttonmania – new and old buttons, belt makers.
- Habadash – vintage buttons, haberdashery and jewellery
- Vintage Fabrics online shop.
- Flashback Fabrics, Northcote.
- Sandra V – Rockabilly boutique in Sasssasfras.

Forums
- Vogue
- Vintage Fashion Guild
- Australian Costumers’ Guild
- The Fedora Lounge
- Frankie Magazine.

More on Circa and Nicole:
- Nicole talking about vintage on Youtube (as featured on Gala Darling’s Icing site).
- Nicole talking about vintage swimwear on ABC TV programme “Collectors”.
- Circa on Facebook
- Nicole on Facebook.
- Life in the past lane: Nicole’s Livejournal.
- Nicole on Twitter.
- Wintersun 2010 Vintage Swimwear Parade by Circa Vintage Clothing.
- Nicole on ABC’s website, talking about the costume collection of the Art Gallery of Ballarat.