Eau Claire Vintage Wares Articles

OLD MADE NEW: Refurbished Funky Wares Ready for Your Home

Collective Charm Antiques, Studio 111 owners craft and curate some of the coolest vintage pieces in the area

Featuring wall mounted paintings, posters, sculptures, collected trinkets, comics, records, vintage lighting and clothing, and unique household items around every corner, “charming” is the perfect way to describe your shopping experience at Collective Charm...

NEW DIGS FOR VINTAGE: Menomonie Shop Has New Name, Location, and Focus

TC Vintage moves away from antiques and into a new shop on Broadway

Town & Country Antiques has been in the Menomonie area for the last 20 years, and even opened a second location five years ago, also in Menomonie. The second location, fittingly named Town & Country Antiques II, now has a new ...

Second Fiddle Vintage Market Returns to Add More ‘Charm’ to Your Closet

Collective Charm, Seven Suns Vintage join forces for Chippewa Falls event

Second Fiddle Vintage Market is where cloth-bound, strung, patched, and sewed vintage clothing and refurbished furniture take modern living to the next level – with the right people to style it, of course. The classic shapes, unique designs, and one-of-a-kind ...

Calling ALL Collectors! Collectors Day Returns in September

back for its second year, Collectors Day awaits your treasures

CALLING ALL COLLECTORS! If you collect Barbie Dolls, baseball cards, Matchbox cars, piggy banks, or just about anything else, Menomonie’s Rassbach Museum wants YOU!...

ROARIN’ THREADS: The Vintage Wonderland of RetrosaurusRex

online store stocked with unique items aims to open real-world space in Menomonie

If you haven’t heard of Menomonie’s RetrosaurusRex Vintage, you might have seen some of its pieces on the big screen. The locally owned online and soon-to-open physical store with a catchy name has quite the tale. Sara Sorenson, the stylish red-haired creator ...

EMPORIUM EVOLVES: Beloved Downtown Antique Mall Plans Auction, Relocation

after Labor Day auction, legendary purveyor of oddities will move to smaller space

It’s not as chock-full of antiques as it was a few months ago, but the Antique Emporium in downtown Eau Claire is still pretty chock-full of antiques. There’s still a stuffed ostrich and a mounted bison head. A battle flag from a Civil War ...

From Valley Vintage Shops to NYC: Local Fashion Designer Works With SHEIN

UW-Stout student, Kalia Moua, hit career milestones before graduation

Even before graduating from UW-Stout, Kalia Moua had already hit career milestones many pursuing fashion only dream of – including a collaboration with SHEIN, a global fashion and lifestyle retailer ...

Not Your Average Attic: Eau Claire’s Attic Consignment Store

one of Wisconsin's largest consignment stores, The Attic has something for everyone

Megan Glassbrenner never thought she’d end up living in the Chippewa Valley again, but to be fair, she never thought she’d own a nearly 10,000-square-foot consignment store, either. First opening towards the end of ...

Out With the New, In With the Old

Seven Suns Vintage celebrates one year of vintage wares and wears

When it comes to the local vintage clothing market, Seven Suns Vintage knows a thing or two. In the year since its opening, this downtown Eau Claire shop has made a name for itself ...

Retro Records: Six of the Rarest, Coolest, and Weirdest Records from the Collection of Revival Records’ Billy Siegel

unique discs, from Bon Iver to the Beatles

I feel like if you’re going to have an album, you need to play it, no matter the price,” said Billy Siegel, owner of Eau Claire’s Revival Records. “Music is for listening, it’s not for sticking on a shelf somewhere for nobody ...

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