I met the delightful Stephie from Fashion Nation on Friday night at the awards ceremony who was a fellow nominee.
She asked if I would like to go out for a spot of shopping and some tea and who was I to refuse a day’s shopping with one of Singapore’s biggest bloggers?!
First stop was Haji Lane and I have to say you were all right- I loved it! It had the best shopping in Singapore in my opinion for the following reasons:
1. You could buy local designers
2. It was inexpensive
3. They had vintage and quirky home wares stores
I found some amazing little boutiques like Soon Lee, Collage and Dulcetfig where I did most of my shopping.
There was a divine top in Collage that I didn’t buy and now regret it so if you are in Haji Lane, pop in and look for a long line, cream t-shirt/singlet with black ruffle netting on the shoulders. Divine!
This is a peek inside Soon Lee:
Stephie told me that graffiti in Singapore is virtually non existent so this stencil was quite rare. I can’t say I saw any graffiti while I was there, it’s one of the cleanest cities I’ve visited.
So here is a peek inside Dulcetfig which is run by Lovie Wong who was in the shop when we were there.She has three cats that wander around the shop and just added that quirky ‘X’ factor to Haji Lane.
I pretty much could have bought this entire rack of vintage or re-worked vintage dresses. They were so pretty, the prints were retro but bang on trend. God knows where Lovie finds them, second hand or vintage clothes are really hard to find in Singapore because according to Feng Shui principles they don’t believe in wearing recycled or second hand clothes.
I wondered if that is why so much of the ‘vintage’ that I found(all of two shops) was re-cut in order to make it new again? Jump in and tell me what you think or know!
The dresses I bought hanging up in the change room. You can see them but I had cats milling around my feet. So cool.
The dresses I bought hanging up in the change room. You can see them but I had cats milling around my feet. So cool.