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tootiefrootie
Joined: 23 Dec 2010
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:33 pm Post subject: Vintage Shopping in Seoul |
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Does anyone have any recommendations for good places in Seoul that sell vintage clothes? Found a couple of places in Hongdae that were ok, but nothing all that great. Kim's Boutique in Sinsa was cool. Is there another one in Itaewon too?
Also, is there a Salvation Army store here in Seoul anywhere? I'd like to check it out if I can find it!
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Lynns
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Near Jongno 5 ga Station there's a traditional market called GwangJang Market. The street level is full of food vendors, as well as a bedding market and fabric/sewing stuff. Upstairs on the second floor is more fabric, especially silk, but there's also a huge used clothing market up there. Just wander around up there and you'll find it eventually. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Namdaemun Market has the clothes no one wanted from the 60's, 70's and 80's. |
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weso1
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Death to hipsters. |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| weso1 wrote: |
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Agreed, though I do enjoy vintage shopping as well. But for it to be feasible, you need to be able to draw on a population that had good clothes. Somehow I imagine what Koreans wore in the '60s and '70s being unsuitable for most foreigners to buy used. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| bekinseki wrote: |
| weso1 wrote: |
| Death to hipsters. |
Agreed, though I do enjoy vintage shopping as well. But for it to be feasible, you need to be able to draw on a population that had good clothes. Somehow I imagine what Koreans wore in the '60s and '70s being unsuitable for most foreigners to buy used. |
I'd imagine a lot of it was so cheap that it has long since fallen apart, regardless of how awful the style might have been. |
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