Sadie Outlet Store

I’m going to risk incurring the wrath of Melbourne’s many local fashion proponents and admit that I find the fashion on offer in Melbourne a bit, um, challenging. Admittedly, there are some awesome boutiques around Fitzroy, Flinders and Chapel Streets but finding decent clothes in Melbourne for anything less than ludicrous prices seems to be a tad tricky. Enter Smith Street.
Awash with vintage boutiques, coffee houses and, at the Johnston Street end, fashion’s veritable holy grail — outlet shops — Smith Street is a bit of a discount shopping Mecca, and Sadie, with prices ranging from around $ 20 for a top to $ 40 for a dress is one of the area’s best value boutiques.
Doing a fine line in just Avant Garde enough jersey basics in neutral but indispensable colours; pretty floral tea dresses perfect for Melbourne’s changeable climes; and soft but smart modern work wear, Sadie is a little Australian label with big ambitions to recreate the season’s trends for a fraction of its sartorial contemporaries prices.
I tend to visit Sadie when I’m in the market for nicely cut tees and vests with just enough detail to make them interesting, while Sadie’s twisted jersey dresses are chaste enough to wear to work and dressy enough to throw on with a pair of sandals for a drink down Smith Street after dark. All in all a brilliant value little boutique.