No one thinks you can just walk into an op shop these days and find a vintage (as in 30-year-old) garment just hanging there with a $4 price tag. Everyone knows to go straight to a vintage store and expects to pay $70 per item. Or do they...?
Like the lottery, there's always a glimmer of hope that the oppy racks and shelves will turn up that special something for not much money - the way they used to.
Due to the dearth of good finds, there's a lot of jaded op-shoppers who jealously guard their favourite shops. Not so with the crew from I Op Therefore I Am. There are reviews by genre ('Jewish op shops...lots of wigs...') and by area (with contact details), as well as brag pages ('I found this old cutlery drawer...'). There are even op shopping bus tours. Uh huh.
So, if you can bare to share your op-shop knowledge/love, have a look.