Klops has compiled a guide to selective second-hand stores in Kaliningrad, where you can find high-quality basic or original designer items at a low price.
1. Rhododendron large
Address: he Chkalova, 1A
Range: pants, shirts, sweaters, jackets, bags, jewelry
Price range: from 600 to 8,000 rubles
Klimrod store is a vintage clothing store that everyone will leave with a perfectly fitting piece. The creator of the brand, Marie Klimrod, is a fashion designer who alters outfits according to the individual measurements of clients.
Things in the hall are mostly large. Visitors choose what they like, and a team of stylists customize trousers and sweaters to make you feel comfortable. The service is included in the price indicated on the price tag.
“Now the girl left with two pairs of men’s trousers: we put them on her. She has a narrow waist and wide hips,” says Marie.
The store’s ideology is people and mutual respect. The team creates a place where everyone will feel comfortable. Klimrod Store visitors seek capsular looks and good vibes. The team is sure that the right image helps to become what you want.
“If a person does not want to try on and we feel it, you can just drink coffee, chat with us, not necessarily about clothes. We are about respect, and this is felt when you come to us, ”says the founder of the store.
About clothes
“We have things hanging almost like new. If necessary, we sew up, clean – laundry, dry cleaning, steam, apply the scent of our perfume, ”said Marie.
If a thing is branded, but already “unwearable”, it is altered into something unusual. For example, in the store there is a jacket made of eco-leather, sewn into a raincoat, connected with corduroy trousers. There is a sweater made from four others.
2. Chipi clo
Address: st. Karl Marx, 56
Range: branded T-shirts, jeans, jackets, things of Kaliningrad designers
Price range: from 500 to 10,000 rubles
The vintage showroom opened 5 years ago as a selective second-hand store. During this time, there were 3 shows, several flea markets and swaps – events where people exchange clothes.
The goal is conscious consumption and the fight against materialism. The store opposes indiscriminate shopaholism and the trivial mass market.
“It happens that I can dissuade a friend whose, I know, shelves at home are breaking, from a thousandth shirt,” says Masha Korableva, the founder of the store.
The store has items from Tom Ford, Gucci, Prada, Versace, Levi’s, Dolce & Gabbana, Dr. Martens and Converse in the 2000s. The team checks the authenticity itself, evaluating the quality, fittings, studying brand websites.
Chipi clo exhibits bags, jewelery made of stones and beads, and clothes from five designers. One of the unusual things is a Soviet jacket with a knitted chamomile by a Kaliningrad master.
The most unusual thing
British fashion designer John Galliano’s newspaper-print sweater inspired by Kerry Bradshaw’s iconic Sex and the City dress.
“The thing is strange, for an amateur. You need to have the courage to wear this, ”Masha comments.
3. justplace.shop
Range: clothes, shoes, accessories, including custom
Price range: from 750 to 9,000 rubles
The goal is conscious consumption. “We are for ecology, for space, so that cool things do not lie around at home, but people bring them to us,” Ksenia, the creator of justplace.shop, formulates the idea of justplace.shop.
The creative commission store opened three years ago in the art space on the Right Embankment. Creative guys painted, doused with paint, cut off the sleeves and arranged photo shoots in unusual clothes.
Now the store has a resale, as well as things from Kaliningrad designers. Ksenia takes things in grunge and vintage style. Most of the range is branded clothing or just stylish and in excellent condition. Among the brands are Massimo Dutti, Max Mara, Zara, Bershka, Stradivarius, Adidas and Nike branded sneakers. The store sells handmade silver jewelry – earrings, chains, rings from 350 to 1,300 rubles.
The thing I remember the most
“The suit, I myself loved it very much. It was made to order: wide trousers and a top with zippers at the back, long satin ribbons came from the back. He looked very cool, ”recalls Ksenia.
4. “Sweatshirt”
Address: he Komsomolskaya, 17
Range: women’s and men’s clothing, paintings, handmade, vintage
Price range: item at a free price – 3,000 rubles.
Alesya Panova created a dream secondhand store for herself. The girl was looking for a bright, spacious place where clean, ironed things would hang, and in comfortable fitting rooms she could take a picture and post a selfie, for which she is not ashamed.
There are three categories of things in the Tolstoyan:
- stock – new clothes with labels. These are unsold collections from mass market stores;
- second hand;
- vintage – clothes older than 20 years.
These categories are not separated, the creator of “Tolstoyan” Alesya tells the guests about things herself. The store offers corduroy trousers, flannel shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, overalls. There are few brands: Hugo Boss, Versace, Calvin Klein, Adidas, Massimo Dutti.
In the hall hang basic things, cozy cashmere sweaters and bright unusual clothes like a silk vintage blouse with parrots and huge sleeves.
“I don’t bring black things, I don’t want them to hang even in the hall. I want brightness. But I had a black velvet jacket with gold epaulettes. It looked very bohemian. Such luxurious things attract attention,” recalls Alesya.
5. «Platform»
Address: Leninsky prospect, 1
Range: clothes, shoes, handmade jewelry
Price range: from 340 to 1,500 rubles
“Platform” is a green version of the mass market. In a bright, comfortable space, actual and sometimes non-standard clothes are collected. Ploshchadka mainly focuses on modern brands, including the premium segment. Rarely found vintage.
70% of the assortment is resale: things that were brought for sale. First, people send photos of clothes, the team evaluates them according to the relevance of the style and seasonality. If the quality is in doubt, the item is left for swap.
Since its inception, “Ploshchadka” has been focusing on warm relations with the audience. The team shows behind the scenes on social networks, composes looks and shares style tips.