Superstar spawn, Frances Bean Cobain, was at Red Light yesterday! The daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love stocked up on over-sized vintage men’s sweaters.
She probably didn’t realize she was walking in her father’s footsteps – back in the early ’90s Kurt Cobain shopped at one of Red Light’s predecessors, The New Store in Seattle! (Same owner, different shop, different Northwest city.)
The dream of the ’90s really is alive in Portland!
Thanks for stopping by, FBC!
Pop stars, rock stars, whatever you want to call them, music idols always make for great Halloween costumes…
Obviously Lady GaGa lends herself to Halloween get-ups…And the wig options for GaGa are endless!
And Prince is great for guys and girls!
Zombie Amy Winehouse would be an excellent choice as well…
It’s our favorite time of the year! October is here and Halloween is almost in full swing at Red Light…We say almost because, as you might know, we perform a big “flip” this month. Very soon Red Light will transform from your favorite neighborhood vintage store into your favorite Halloween superstore.
Sure, we’ve been putting out some of our costume finery everyday. And if you were in Red Light today you noticed that all those special, necessary accessories like face paint and fangs and mustaches are filling our cases now, too. But we have SO MUCH MORE yet to put out – including possibly the best set of costumes we’ve ever seen!
Not too many things are so weird, so extreme and so rare that the entire Red Light staff is in awe of them, but that is the case with this costume group. And we’ll be revealing those get-ups to the world on Friday – don’t miss out!
From the vintage uniform to the black vintage heels to the amazing vintage leather doctor’s bag, we LOVE this customer’s totally contemporary take on vintage style!
WOW – last Sunday’s $1 Sale was crazy! Thank you to everyone who came out and shopped for a cause!
Not only was it our most successful $1 Sale yet this summer, the event also featured our youngest-ever $1 Sale shopper (the cutie pictured above took home a vintage beaded purse).
And, as if that weren’t enough, this $1 Sale also had the biggest single customer purchase ever: 70 items! Yep, one of your fellow Portlanders found 70 great garments…and their purchase translated into $70 cash to Caldera.
As with all of our summer $1 Sales, 100% of proceeds from the event are going to a local non-profit. Sunday’s $1 Sale benefited Caldera – an exceptional organization that supports the arts on many levels, including artist-in-residence programs and extensive outreach to struggling schools and students.
We have one $1 Sale left on the 2011 Summer calendar: Sunday, August 24 from 10 am – noon. The last $1 Sale of the summer will benefit Dove Lewis, an amazing emergency veterinary center, so get ready to shop!
Look at the rad sidewalk chalk message someone left in front of Red Light today!
This totally made us smile – it’s exactly what Red Light Clothing Exchange is all about: Wear some art and have fun with your clothes!
In a town known for its incredible vintage shopping, with quite a few stellar vintage stores, it really means something to be chosen as the best…Red Light is tremendously flattered to be voted Portland’s Best Vintage Store in the Portland Mercury’s Readers Choice awards. THANK YOU PORTLAND!
(Also, a special thank you to Portland Mercury for putting together the awesome Readers Choice awards and supplement, as well as to Cecilia D’Anastasio for the excellent profile of our shop!)
It’s that time again…This Sunday, July 24, from 10 am – noon we’ll be having a $1 Sale, with 100% of the proceeds going to St. Francis Dining Hall!
St. Francis Dining Hall operates here in SE Portland, providing 300+ meals daily to those in need. The Dining Hall is run by a staff of three people assisted by numerous volunteers and operates year round.
We’ve got tons of great stuff ready for this weekend’s $1 Sale so be sure to hit Hawthorne early with some cash in hand (sale is CASH ONLY) to get the best stuff!
Forecast for Sunday is beautiful and sunny – summer’s finally here!
It’s the end of an era – today we retired the circa 1960 Maytag washer and dryer that have been a part of Red Light for over a decade. We’ve used these appliances everyday for ten years, thousands of loads of laundry…make that tens of thousands!
They worked great and looked even better…Heck, this aqua dryer looks better than 99% of cars these days:
But, unfortunately, our trusty vintage dryer finally conked out on us a few months ago.
We spent hours online looking for the replacement part to repair it with no luck. So, we finally decided it was time to replace our beloved Maytags…And now we have a lovely, modern, Eco-star approved washer/dryer set. The new machines use a lot less water and energy than our vintage set, and that’s a good thing. But they just aren’t as pretty! Doing the laundry just won’t be as much fun as it used to be.
Today we hosted our third Shop Local, Support Local $1 Sale; the event benefited Northwest Down Syndrome Association (www.nwdsa.org).
From 10 am – noon, hundreds of items were just a buck and 100% of the Sale’s proceeds are going to NWDSA.
Tons of people stopped by, several shoppers found 20+ items they couldn’t live without…And all those purchases added up to our most successful $1 Sale yet! Thank you to everyone who shopped and supported!
This little girl was adorable, trying on a bunch of different dresses and spinning around on the sidewalk to see which had the best swirl:
We have three more Shop Local, Support Local $1 Sales planned for the summer. The next Sale takes place on Sunday, July 24!