Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Protesters Try to Convince Moviegoe… | Saturday Morning News »

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Fashion It's Saturday, Don't You Wanna Buy Something You Don't Need?

Posted by Kelly O on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM

Ladies and gents: Brocklin's, Capitol Hill Seattle's #1 family-owned, formal wear, costume, and bridal shop is closing its doors after 106 years. Everything is on sale: fabrics, tuxedos, wedding dresses, vintage costumes... They'll be open through the end of February. I've, ahem, already been there three times (sorry there's not much left in the wizard section!).

Check out these photos of some other items that might just need to own.

KELLY O
I'm lime green, m*tha f*ckas!

And last, but NEVER least... there's a whole rack of these:

All photos Kelly O

FacebookShare

Comments (9) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

I want to go there!

Posted by nightswim on January 12, 2013 at 10:47 AM

I would love to get a powder blue tuxedo with broad velvet lapels, a bow tie the size of two running shoes, and a ruffled shirt, just like the ones I wore to proms in the 70's. Then I thought of them as high fashion. Now they would be worn in a spirit of healthy irony.

Posted by Clayton on January 12, 2013 at 12:02 PM

My dad has a powder blue leisure suit I'd be happy to send your way, @2. For him, the fact that he can still get into the same suit he wore in HS and college makes him proud, meanwhile the rest of us just groan when he digs that thing out since he hasn't realized/doesn't seem to care that fashion has changed.

Posted by StuckInUtah on January 12, 2013 at 12:26 PM

Is my monitor fucked? That looks like seafoam to me, not lime.

Posted by long-time reader on January 12, 2013 at 12:36 PM

from the moldy and amateur look of the costumes, I can see why they went out of business. It looks like they were all worn out last halloween and put away wet and dirty. ick.

Posted by soggydan on January 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM

Awesome pics!

Posted by cmuberti on January 12, 2013 at 6:32 PM

It's Brocklind's, with a "d". http://www.brocklinds.com/

Posted by Willy Wonka on January 13, 2013 at 8:52 AM