It’s official: your favorite socks – Weed, Whiskey, and Evil among them – are back in stock (though given the number of calls we’ve received asking when we’d have them again, who knows how long that will be the case).
All Rock Socks are $9.95 and made to fit both guys and girls.
Along with being crazy about vintage clothes, if you’ve ever been in The Red Light you might have noticed that we also have a thing for vintage velvet paintings and blacklight posters. Judging by how many people ask us everyday if our posters or paintings are for sale, we’re betting that a number of our customers share our fondness for tacky pop art.
If you’re one of them, then check out this book: Ultraviolet by Dan Donahue, with an introduction by MGMT. The book features 69 premium vintage blacklight posters reproduced in full color with light sensitive inks so they glow under blacklight just like the originals!
Turns out this tome came out in October ‘08! We’re shocked we didn’t hear about it sooner (especially since the publisher, Abrams Image, also produced our book on vintage rock T-shirts, Rock Tease), but what can you do?
Just put on “Electric Feel”, open the book and enjoy the psychedelic explosion!
Images courtesy of Ultraviolet
Most of us have at least a few Christmas gifts left to buy. Here’s a few fun suggestions from The Red Light staff – and it’s all stuff that you can grab here on Hawthorne!:
1. Just the thing for the shop local, buy local PDX junkie!
Pair some PORTLAND socks ($9.95) from Red Light with a Powell’s gift card or Stumptown coffee. Alternatively, if you’re PDX-centric friend is also a boozehound, give him or her a pair of WHISKEY socks with a bottle of House Spirits recently released, limited edition whiskey!
2. Something sure to please any rock ‘n’ roller…
Gift a great vintage rock tee (we’ve got a bunch, starting from $20) with some classic albums or a gift card from Jackpot Records. Easy, right?!
3. Make any glamhead happy:
Hook up your make-up happy, retro-loving friend with a deadstock, hard cover bio of Boy George ($10; we’ve got several left) or Hollywood Rocks! ($20) from The Red Light and wrap it up with a host of bright nail polish or eyeliner colors from Wet ‘n’ Wild (available at Fred Meyer). Or give either book with a gift certificate for a rock ‘n’ roll hair make-over at Bishop’s.
There are only 3 more days ’til Christmas, but there are still lots of goodies at The Red Light and all along Hawthorne!
(And, of course, you can always just give a Red Light gift certificate. They’re available in any denomination and never expire…)
Dudes! We just got in a bunch of copies of Hollywood Rocks! - a big, beautiful, picture book all about Hollywood and hair bands in the ’80s. Bands featured include those you know (Motley, Poison) and those you probably don’t (Leatherwolf, Glamour Punks) plus pics of the hair studios, clothing shops and other haunts favored by hair metal rockers. This book is seriously metal nirvana.
Hollywood Rocks! is sure to please any rocker you know, as well as any fashion junkie (so much spandex!)…And who wouldn’t want a book with Axl Rose on the cover anyway? Give hair metal for Christmas!
Hollywood Rocks! (hardcover), $20
Bright, colorful Rock Socks make great Secret Santa gifts and stocking stuffers! Along with the new styles pictured above, we also have BEER, MEAT, NERD, PORTLAND and more.
Rock Socks are a perfect gift item: they’re fun AND practical AND less than $10! (Plus, they’re unisex so you can give them to anyone and everyone!)
Hope you all had a great and tasty Thanksgiving!
Apparently the holiday mailing rush has already begun because UPS did not deliver our new sock shipment by last Friday, as scheduled. Boo!
We’ve got some rad socks, like the BACON design pictured above (and featured on PDXNeatSheet.com!), imminently arriving…We’ll let you know as soon as they land.
Exclusively in Portland at The Red Light and only $9.95, these unisex socks make great stocking stuffers or secret santa presents! (New ETA is Monday, Nov. 30.)
Normally we’re not into dolls, but these soon-to-be-released Barbies are something special…Sure, they don’t look just like the pop icons they represent but we’d still be ridiculously excited to find one under the Christmas tree next month!
The dolls don’t hit the market until December 10, but you can preorder them on Amazon and other websites. Surprisingly, they aren’t that expensive…The average price is $44.95 (which qualifies for free shipping on Amazon!).
Pre-order Joan Jett.
Pre-order Debbie Harry.
Pre-order Cyndi Lauper.