NYC vintage shopping guide

With the pound at an all-time low, it might be time to bid Barneys and Berdorf’s adieu for the time being on your next trip to New York, and embrace wholeheartedly that vintage vibe which beats to a totally different drum than London’s. For the convenience of the sisterhood of the traveling retro queens, Kristin Knox has compiled a guide broken down by price category to the best vintage the Big Apple has to offer.

As Britain’s econonmy continues to slip further and the Sterling tumbles to unprecedented lows to the satisfaction of those whose currencies have, for so long, submitted grumblingly to the dominion of the Pound (my Yankee-self counted among the smug), Britons have, for once, found themselves on the flip side of the transatlantic shopping curve.

No longer will weekend jaunts to NYC to check out Marc Jacobs’ latest or scoop up sale stock at Saks by the giant carrier bag full remain an alluring prospect for many. But for those who still find themselves unable to resist the siren call of stateside shopping, to get as much mileage as possible from your dollar, it may be time to bid Madison Avenue farewell and head downtown to see what the city that never sleeps has to offer by way of vintage and second hand shops.

Though, being the shamefully new country that we are, our vintage shops do not abound like Portobello Road and Spitalfields in Victorian curiosities, fifties fur and delicate Edwardian lace, may I take this moment to remind you that, New York, in the eighties and nineties led the pack of neon spandex body-suit wielding, acid wash ripped denim sporting sartorial revolutionaries whose spirit is just so right now (Stephen Sprouse, ahem).

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