Vintage clothes shopping in Bangkok

If you are looking for vintage clothes in Bangkok, there are several places you can check out where you'll have fun browsing and perhaps snare a one-off original for a song, too.

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Be warned though that shiny new is, in general, the preferred Bangkok ascetic. While vintage-chic is a popular look, especially in the Thai hipster crowd, new is still godly and a lot of clothing is mass-produced to only appear like it was made decades ago. We've done some detective work for you though, so you can make a beeline for the places you're most likely to get lucky—and more specialised shops are popping up all the time.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Photo taken in or around Vintage clothes shopping, Bangkok, Thailand by Samantha Brown.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Photo: Samantha Brown

Be warned that even if you find your dream dress, shirt or skirt, chances are the size will be on the small side. Vintage is hard enough to find in Bangkok: Western-sized vintage is a needle in a haystack, as a most of the imported vintage stuff is from other Asian countries, as far as we were able to deduce. Also, shops come and go very quickly. If you find one vintage spot, ask them where else they'd recommend, as you never know what stall is going to shut down and what's ... Travelfish members only (Full text is around 900 words.)

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