Enter the The Dressing Room.
The Dressing Room is a buy-sell-trade that functions like a Beacon’s Closet or a Buffalo Exchange, apart from one thing: In addition to cash or store credit, your clothes can be traded for free drinks.
That’s right, chickadees – there’s an in-house BAR. Meaning you can go in at the end of a long day, grab a cocktail, flip through a rack of magazines, get inspired, go downstairs, shop, and repeat until midnight or whenever they close.
Hello AWESOME.
The Dressing Room’s gently worn apparel, shoes and accessories selection doesn’t yet boast Buff Ex’s brandtastic-ness or Beacon’s’ high volume, but there’s still a nice mix of under-$40 vintage and resale stuffs to be had.
Why is $16 a more than reasonable price to pay for this dress?
Because it’s reversible. That’s code for two dresses in one. The next time Buff Ex negs your castoffs for not being trendy enough, and/or Beacon’s’ perma-PMS pisses you off, don’t stress. Take ‘em to The Dressing Room, and exchange them for bar or store credit.
You might be able to snag yourself a material fix AND a glass of wine sans spending a dime.
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THAT DRESS IS SO CUTE! And reversible? Lucky girl!
The notion of drinking and shopping seems fraught with (fun) danger, but at least you can’t do too much damage at those prices!
I love that place! We ended up there after my brother’s wedding – the bar we had been in wouldn’t let my new sister-in-law in becasue she didn’t have her ID (I guess they get a lot of women dressing up as brides to try to sneak in underage), and another patron who witnessed the kerfuffle came out and gave us a card to the Dressing Room, said he was friends with the owner, and would call them to be sure they let us all in. We ended up with the place to ourselves (about 20 of us), played dress up, watched old movies on the giant screen and had drinks until the wee smalls. The shop/bar and the staff were incredible!