London Vintage Shopping Guide

Chanced upon this blog dedicated to retro/vintage fashion and found this article pretty useful for people travelling to London and searching for vintage finds! (on a more selfish note, its for my easy reference hhehehe!!) here it goes:

East London
Style commonly found: Late '40s to Early '60s
Even though the original "Swinging London" was found around Carnaby Street, it is now in East London that you can find most of the mid-century styles.
If you are in it for the shopping, there are lots of small vintage clothes shops around Brick Lane. Every time I go there, a new shop appears. For furniture, around Spitalfields Market is the best place to hunt.

West London
Style commonly found: Late '60s and '70s
Portobello market is well known for its vintage treasures. Not only from the Seventies, but from all eras, as far back as the Twenties. However, there is a distinct hippie vibe in this area. Walking around Westbourne Grove (a short 5 min walk from Portobello Market), you cross paths with a lot of Boho princesses. Not always authentic vintage style, it definitely stems from Seventies groupies. If you are a fan of the GTO (Girls Together Outrageously) you will feel right at home there

North London
Style commonly found: '80s
Camden is a strange area for fashion as it attracts such a wide variety of people. The area is mostly popular for 80's fashion - especially heavily rock influenced styles. You also find quite a few 80's does 50's new rockabilly kids around there. The best illustration of this new rockabilly being Vivien of Holloway's designs.

South London
Style commonly found: '90s
A lot of students live around New Cross and Camberwell and the style du jour seems to be Grunge. Doc Martens, lumberjack shirts, vintage denim and chunky knitwear is the local style. Sometimes a few VERY brights are thrown in for a bit of old rave style.

(source: http://www.debutanteclothing.com/news/vintage_resources/)

Holy, after much digging on the net, I found an article that says one can now shop at Portobello Market in the comfort of their homes!!! Love the name Pret A Portobello!!! Some stuff that made me sat up from my work desk....