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This choice vintage shop focuses on feminine, flowing styles from the sixties and seventies, especially mod disco dresses and colorful knee-length skirts.

This Williamsburg vintage shop, hidden beneath the BQE, touts an impressive selection of button-down shirts in seventies prints, as well as breezy summer dresses and broken-in boots.

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Metallic splatter-painted leggings, clutches, and lingerie.

This eccentric boutique and gallery stocks jewelry, glassware, and new and vintage apparel from Tokyo, London, L.A., and New York.

A one-stop consignment shop for vintage addicts and unconventional dressers.

Distinctive contemporary and reconstructed vintage apparel for men.

Amarcord customers get unique pieces of wearable art from the owners' treasure hunts throughout Italy.

Amarcord customers get unique pieces of wearable art from the owners' treasure hunts throughout Italy.

Retro, sometimes not-so-cheap fashions such as polyester graphic shirts rule at this Village fixture.

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Don't come here looking for your standard St. Marks thrift fare.

Expect the unexpected at Chelsea’s surviving outdoor market, whose longtime venders reliably unearth one-off treasures for flea-bitten fans.

Antique hunters come to Archangel for cuff links, clothing, jewelry, and funky home furnishings.

Since 1948, this donation-based shop benefiting the Arthritis Foundation’s New York City chapter has been a choice destination for designer hand-me-downs.

This indoor weekend market offers unusual art, used books, and handmade jewelry and apparel.

This narrow menswear boutique pairs dapper vintage duds with new apparel and accessories from obscure young designers.

NYU grad Kate Goldwater opened this offbeat boutique for recycled and socially conscious style in 2007.

This charitable vintage shop draws shoppers more for its affordable fabric selection than its dated apparel.

Owner Barbara Feinman custom-makes fun, feminine hats. We like the twenties leather-applique cloche.

A trove of inexpensive, gently-used fashion, where yesterday's looks can become today's cash in hand.

A trove of inexpensive, gently-used fashion, where yesterday's looks can become today's cash in hand.

See the profile of this NYC store at 97 1/2 E. 7th St. in Manhattan.

See the profile of this NYC store at 57 Bond St.

Offbeat hodgepodge of design-centered finds for body and home.