Clothing shopping in San Francisco
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Super7
After tiresome T-shirt trends of self-promotion (‘Porn Star’) and retro-irony (‘Virginia is for Lovers’), it’s a shock to find piles of limited-edition T-shirts this original. ‘Superterrific Animal Friendlies’ announces one Super7 T-shirt with an unlikely superhero team of cuddly owls, bats and monkeys; ‘Martial Art Garfunkel’ proclaims another, with the ‘Mrs Robinson’ crooner striking a karate pose. Godzilla fans cannot miss the selection of rare action figures here.
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Custom Originals (Al’s Attire)
Hepcats and slick chicks get their duds at Al’s, where vintage styles are reinvented in rocker gabardine, noir-novel twill and philosophical tweeds. Prices aren’t exactly bohemian, but recent finds in the sales rack include men’s thin-lapel jackets and halter dresses that would make Marilyn Monroe gnash her teeth in envy. Ask about custom orders for weddings and other shindigs.
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Secession Art & Design
Every weekend is an open studio event at this local designer/artist collective. Permanent installations include Colleen Mauer’s loop-de-loop earrings and Heather Robinson’s mysterious paintings of spoons and hammers poking through ornate wallpaper; recent gallery shows featured Anna Simson’s abstract, color-blocked cityscapes and graffiti artist FuryOne’s gritty, dreamy spray-paint portraits.
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Delilah Crown
The crowning touches to SF style are the screen-printing, pin-tucking and vintage fabrics used in owner Kristina De Pizzol’s silver-crown-label designs: patch-pocket skirts with contrasting stitching, yellow shifts with vintage orange buttons, and mushroom-silkscreened T-shirts. Baby mini-tunics and gypsy skirts make tiny tots look like the charming end results of the Summer of Love.
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Dark Garden
Not sure what to wear to your Victorian-theme wedding or your Marilyn Manson tribute band’s debut? Dark Garden might have your answer, as long as you don’t need to take any deep breaths and can get help with the lacing (not exactly a cinch, no matter what they tell you). Corsets are made to order and surprisingly comfortable, especially the va-va-voom velvet numbers.
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Bluebird
Even tiny terrors look adorable in Bluebird’s flouncy, fun frocks and shoulder-tie sundresses inspired by the 1940s and ’50s, when kids weren’t expected to strut around like baby Britney Spears. Designer/owner Stephanie Scarpulla is also a vintage clotheshound, so you’ll find striped ’60s mod minis and dreamy 1970s Gunne Sax maxidresses for women here, too.
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Ooma
Feel-good style is what Objects of My Affection is all about: ticklish coral waterfall earrings, springy Poetic License wedges, and locally made, sweatshop-free Del Forte organic denim. Better still, most items are in the affordable double-digit range, including laser-cut wood bubble earrings by local designer Molly M.
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Doe
Upgrade from the ‘I escaped from Alcatraz’ shot-glasses to Doe’s signature belts featuring the fogged-in Sutro Tower on the buckle, Jill Bliss stationery with unruly California poppies and mushrooms in the margins, or a gold outline of the state of California with a gem inset in (of course) San Francisco.
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Isda & Co
Sharp SF urban professionals aren’t born into casual Friday elegance – they probably clawed their way up through racks of pin-tucked jackets and tie-front cardigans at this local designer outlet. Colors are mostly variations on a charcoal-gray theme, but the lean silhouette is shamelessly flattering.
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Trunk
The Burning Man aesthetic rages on year-round at this cooperative boutique, where most items are locally designed and eco-conscious, from Miranda Caroligne’s radically reconstructed patchwork sweaters, mesmerizing Dida glass-globe earrings, and high-drama flower barrettes with veils.
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