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473 Valencia (at 16th St.) San Francisco, CA 94103

415-621-3212 

 

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  • 2007 | Best Men's Thrift

    For a town that's been home to generations of wittily-dressed men, S.F. is rather impoverished as far as a one-stop thrift-shop for cool men's clothes. Maybe our well-dressed citizens recycle their castoffs to friends, or maybe they're buried with Egyptian-style caches, taking their best outfits on to the next world. There's certainly not enough cheapo men's fashion-detritus kicking around town, but Clothes Contact is an always reliable source for standard-issue vintage. Their... More »

  • 2005 | Best Secondhand Clothes

    Clothes Contact 473 Valencia (at 16th Street), 621-3212 Clothes Contact is one of the few places in town where you can still purchase your couture not by label or fabric but by gross tonnage, a popular concept back in the pre-dot-com '90s. Used clothing, fabrics, buttons, and patches are carefully weeded of overt dreck and displayed throughout the store's cavernous interior in well-organized fashion. The quality is a step above your standard rummage store selection, with cool leather... More »

  • 2000 | Best Barrel Scraping

    The end of the line for the Retro City chain of vintage and used stores -- which includes La Rosa and Held Over -- Clothes Contact is the premier by-the-pound thrift in the Bay Area. Most of its items arrive in huge cardboard barrels from Germany, or Baltimore, or someplace where there are a lot of old clothes lying around. Once in the store they are lovingly arrayed: racks of slightly sagging car coats, trees of Bavarian mountain hats, rows of once-worn dresses for any occasion. The best... More »

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