VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Ace Antiques
& Collectables
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Ace Antiques & Collectables
A collector's paradise specializing in an extensive range of Bakelite radios, Australia's largest, alongside enamel signs, toys, and other rare curiosities. This North Melbourne institution offers service, spares, and repairs, and welcomes visits to explore their curated collections.
OP SHOP
Brotherhood of St
Laurence Camberwell
MELBOURNE, VIC
Op Shop
Brotherhood of St Laurence Camberwell
Brotherhood of St Laurence Camberwell is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Camberwell, Victoria, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for quality fashion and homewares from affluent donors. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In Camberwell, a leafy eastern suburb famous for its iconic Sunday market.
OP SHOP
Brotherhood of St
Laurence Clifton Hill
MELBOURNE, VIC
Op Shop
Brotherhood of St Laurence Clifton Hill
Brotherhood of St Laurence Clifton Hill is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Clifton Hill, Victoria, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Part of the Brotherhood network. Particularly known for well-sorted books and quality clothing. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In Clifton Hill, a quiet inner-north pocket near the Merri Creek trail and Collingwood's vintage strip.
ART & OBJECTS
Craft Victoria
MELBOURNE, VIC
Art & Objects
Craft Victoria
Craft Victoria champions Australian makers across ceramics, objects and sculpture, with an exhibition program that moves between the intimate domestic scale of makers like Glenlyon-based ceramicist Minaal Lawn and the more conceptual end of object design. Membership opens access to workshops and clinics; the gallery itself is reason enough to visit central Melbourne's laneways.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Great Dane
Furniture
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Great Dane Furniture
Great Dane Furniture is a vintage furniture shop in Richmond, Victoria, specialising in mid-century modern furniture, retro homewares, and vintage decor. Particularly known for scandinavian vintage, Danish design. Browse showroom floors filled with restored sideboards, dining settings, armchairs, and lighting from the 1950s through the 1980s. In Richmond, known for its busy Bridge Road and Swan Street shopping strips.
OP SHOP
Helping Hands
Preston
MELBOURNE, VIC
Op Shop
Helping Hands Preston
Warehouse-style charity op shop on Oakover Road with a retro bent and a bazaar layout — furniture, clothing, bric-a-brac crammed into alcoves you have to explore. Melbourne thrifters know this one. Clothes from two dollars, books and jewellery from one. Run by Helping Hands Mission, so every dollar goes to emergency food relief and community aid programs.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Hunted Antiques
& Collectibles
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Hunted Antiques & Collectibles
Nearly an acre of floor space in Bayswater, divided among hundreds of individual stallholders trading in everything from taxidermy and radiograms to vintage clothing, military items, and petrol collectables. Open since December 2016, open seven days. The sheer density rewards slow browsing — new stock arrives daily, so the floor shifts constantly.
BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Kay Craddock
Antiquarian Bookseller
MELBOURNE, VIC
Books & Ephemera
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
Signed association copies sit alongside Folio Society fiction and a Japanese soldier's military pocket book from c.1904. Kay Craddock deals in the kind of inventory that rewards slow browsing — rare editions, literary curiosities, paper ephemera — and ships anywhere in Australia for free on orders over $150.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Mid Century
Modern Melbourne
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Mid Century Modern Melbourne
Mid Century Modern Melbourne is a vintage furniture shop in Collingwood, Victoria, specialising in mid-century modern furniture, retro homewares, and vintage decor. Particularly known for danish teak furniture, retro lighting, and Australiana. Browse showroom floors filled with restored sideboards, dining settings, armchairs, and lighting from the 1950s through the 1980s. In Collingwood, part of Melbourne's creative inner north with a dense concentration of vintage and design stores along Smith Street.
VINTAGE FURNITURE & HOMEWARES
Mrs.Secondhand
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Furniture & Homewares
Mrs.Secondhand
Secondhand furniture warehouse on Plenty Road in Preston, trading since 2000. The stock leans vintage and mid-century — baroque velvet sofas, cast iron garden settings, ornate cane bedheads, brass lamps — with a good eye and fair prices. Open Fridays and Saturdays only. Twenty-five years of knowing what's worth saving.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Retrostar Vintage
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Retrostar Vintage
Retrostar Vintage is a vintage clothing store in Fitzroy, Victoria, specialising in vintage fashion, retro clothing, designer secondhand pieces, and accessories. Particularly known for curated retro fashion from the 60s to 90s. Expect racks of carefully curated garments spanning decades, from mid-century dresses to retro denim and statement accessories. In Fitzroy, Melbourne's original bohemian quarter, packed with vintage stores, street art, and independent cafes along Brunswick and Smith Streets.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Shag
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Shag
Windsor's Shag deals in the kind of finds that reward patience: 1930s cloisonné beads, a 90s Bulgari silk scarf by Davide Pizzigoni, 1940s Italian glass drop earrings. Alongside vintage, there's new work from Tarmafia — hand-sequinned and beaded jackets in the $349–$450 range. Hunters and dealers, they say. The stock bears that out.
ART & OBJECTS
Sketchbook Gallery
MELBOURNE, VIC
Art & Objects
Sketchbook Gallery
Sketchbook Gallery is an art and objects gallery in Northcote, Victoria, specialising in vintage art, ceramics, sculpture, and curated decorative objects. Particularly known for australian ceramics, textiles, prints. A gallery-like experience where carefully selected vintage art, ceramics, and decorative objects are displayed for collectors and interior enthusiasts. In Northcote, a lively inner-north suburb with a strong vintage and arts scene along High Street.
MARKET
St Kilda
Esplanade Market
MELBOURNE, VIC
Market
St Kilda Esplanade Market
Sunday mornings on the Upper Esplanade since 1970, when Councillor Manning opened what was then called the Art Bank with a handful of artists and sculptors. Adam Elliot — later Oscar-winner for *Harvey Krumpet* — sold hand-painted t-shirts here for five years. Potters, jewellers, leather-workers and painters still line the foreshore each week, selling work they've made themselves.
BOOKS & EPHEMERA
The Paperback
Bookshop
MELBOURNE, VIC
Books & Ephemera
The Paperback Bookshop
The kind of bookshop that stays open until 11pm on a Friday, which tells you most of what you need to know. Staff offer personalised reading recommendations on request, and monthly salon events — recent guests include memoirist Erin Vincent — give the place a literary-society feeling without the stuffiness. The stock leans literary: fiction, philosophy, poetry, Australian non-fiction.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
Trading Rags
Vintage
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Trading Rags Vintage
On Glen Huntly Road in Caulfield, Trading Rags moves through eight decades of women's clothing — 1940s corduroy day dresses, 1960s jacquard cocktails, Alfred Shaheen Hawaiian maxis, 1970s flutter-sleeve chiffon. The stock runs from wearable everyday vintage to rarer designer and bridal finds, all individually sourced and available in-store or online.
OP SHOP
Vinnies Brunswick
MELBOURNE, VIC
Op Shop
Vinnies Brunswick
Vinnies Brunswick is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Brunswick, Victoria, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Particularly known for vintage clothing and retro homewares. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. Along Sydney Road in Brunswick, a bustling strip known for its eclectic mix of vintage shops and multicultural dining.
OP SHOP
Vinnies Fitzroy
MELBOURNE, VIC
Op Shop
Vinnies Fitzroy
Vinnies Fitzroy is an op shop (charity thrift store) in Fitzroy, Victoria, offering secondhand clothing, homewares, books, and bric-a-brac at bargain prices. Part of the Vinnies network. Particularly known for designer donations and vintage fashion. A treasure hunt for bargain seekers, where every purchase supports charitable community programs. In Fitzroy, Melbourne's original bohemian quarter, packed with vintage stores, street art, and independent cafes along Brunswick and Smith Streets.
VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
VINTAGE WORLD
AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, VIC
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
VINTAGE WORLD AUSTRALIA
A Melbourne-based purveyor of reproduction vintage and antique collectibles, specializing in nautical themes, medieval helmets, and decorative home décor. Offering handcrafted pieces including diving helmets, telescopes, compasses, and leather journals sourced from quality brass, alloy, and recycled materials.
ART & OBJECTS
Wunderkammer
MELBOURNE, VIC
Art & Objects
Wunderkammer
The name says it all. Wunderkammer — cabinet of curiosities — stocks the kind of objects that stop you mid-stride: Ulysses butterflies pinned under glass, Madagascar sunset moths, bat skulls in display domes, giant black scorpions. Natural history specimens sit alongside beetle terrariums and hanging bats preserved whole. Less shop, more taxonomy lesson.