Princeton Brooks

This new and Vintage American Apparel store on Oxford Street Paddington has been around for over twenty years selling a variety of goods including cowboy boots and buckles, tees, jackets, jeans, caps and hats.
The stock here always seems to change every couple of months, which is a good thing, as it keeps the regular customers coming back and the passer by’s continually interested in the window displays.
I like a lot of the old patches they have, that remind me of American truck drivers and hill billies.

I love me a vintage store with an old western American flare. Princeton Brooks has an awesome selection of men’s cowboy flannels (yes, the ones with the pearly buttons that instantly make a dude look cuter). Just a little too bad they’re $ 79 dollars a piece. It’s oh-​so-​interesting. Back in the day that shirt cost probably $ 5 when it was new, and then it was warn and warn (god only knows what happened in it) and then someone probably croaked while wearing it and then it found its way across the world to Australia (probably by sea, possibly by air) and now it’s in a Paddington shop and costs nearly eighty bones. Interesting indeed.
If you’re looking for a vintage T they have some good ones here, soft as your first teddy bear and in every one of the rainbow’s colors. What about original Levi’s or seersucker shorts from back when seersucker was cool? Yep, they’ve got ‘em. Cowboy boots? Uh huh. Vintage tradesman shirts? Oh yeah. You know what I loved the most? The wall of old name badges fit to sew onto your favorite jacket. You just have to be named Mick or Marge… but you are, right?

Princeton Brooks is a great little mens clothing store up on Oxford Street as you head towards Paddington. It’s casual wear so if you’re after some high fashion then don’t come here although if you’re after a t-​shirt, casual shirt, shorts or jeans, then this is your place.
The clothes are imported from America so if you do see something you like, there’s a good chance no one else will have it! Prices are fair but if you are after a real bargain head down stairs to the basement where everything is dirt cheap.
Apart from clothes there’s also accessories like hats, wallets and little name tags which can be sewn on any item of clothing if you’re that way inclined. Even if you don’t want to sew it on anything, finding something with your name on it always makes you feel special!