Cactus Flower

This small 2-​story shop offers nice accessories such as necklaces, bracelets, rings, sunglasses, earrings, and vintage clothing items.
They have nice sunglasses and really cute accessories that are affordable. As for their clothing items, they have nice dresses, cardigans, fringe cardis, and nice blouse tops. Prices aren’t cheap but they also have a sales rack with really cute clothes at a discounted price.
I am certainly happy with my recent purchase of cute mini floral earring studs. Super cute!
Lastly, you would assume the employees working at the store would be friendly but not so much. So they can definitely improve in the service category. Overall, this is a nice shop that offers a lot.

There are two parts of this store: new clothes downstairs, vintage/​thrift store upstairs. In regards to the bottom new area, the clothes are very trendy and I often find many things I want. The prices are not cheap, but that is usual for a boutique. It is definitely a cute shop, though tiny shop, with all of the latest styles.
Upstairs I rarely find any clothing I like, though they have a nice selection of vintage jewelry. The only reason I am giving this store 3 stars is that the cramped space makes me slightly uncomfortable and employees are not very friendly or helpful.

Although I’ve looked through the vintage clothing selection here, I’ve never had much luck. However, I have found some great items in the downstairs new clothing area. It’s a mix of professional clothing and more college-​age wear. Some of the brands can be a little pricey, but there have good sales and brands you can’t find elsewhere in Bloomington. They also have lots of cute jewelry and accessories.

What a cute little shop! The downstairs is a super adorable little boutique-​like shop with clothing, shoes, and accessories. It’s kind of like one of those little shops were the super cute clothes run a touch too small and are just a little over the price you want to spend. Oddly, a lot of the items didn’t seem seasonally weather-​appropriate to me. They still had a lot of shorter dresses and tank tops out. Nonetheless, this would be a great place to get some new date clothes or cutsey work clothes. The upstairs has a fairly extensive collection of vintage items. They even had a small amount of men’s clothing. I didn’t see a lot of truly vintage items aside from one rack but they have a lot more than you might think jammed on the racks. There was even a $ 5 bin. Worth a look.

A one-​two punch of Laughing Planet & Cactus Flower is alone worthy of a jaunt from Indy. Even if it’s just browsing, Cactus Flower is still worthy because of its pretty rapid consignment cycle there’s always new stuff coming in – at least upstairs in the men’s section & home /​knacks. I once passed on a glossed wood painted German Shepherd clock. I’m not sure why I did that. That was dumb. It’s gone now & I’ll never see it again. So be sure to ponder long & hard about walking out of this place without what you want in your hands.
My last visit brought me my favorite hat that I can’t take off, and a shirt I once wore three days in a row.
The jewelry collection here is fun, too.
I spend far more time in here than I do at, say, a department store. The prices are higher but they usually are at consignment shops because of the inability to replicate the very immediate shopping experience of: «there’s only place for this and it’s here, and this is the price.»
If there’s ever a reason to go see real people and buy tangible goods in person it’s this.

My favorite boutique in Bloomington! Consistently affordable with cute jewelry and the occasional pretty dress for a wedding or party. Go for the shoe and earring selection, stay for the tasty vintage pieces and consignment heaven upstairs. Conveniently located if you need to browse while your bored companion grabs a cup of coffee (at Soma) or a burrito (at Laughing Planet).

I’ve been in this store dozens of times and only come out with two things in my life. The ones I like the best were consigned shoes because I literally had the shoes I was wearing fall apart on my way to lunch and was REQUIRED to buy something as it was February. The new stuff is way overpriced for very thin fabrics. The entire staff gives judgmental looks at people who are not going to buy stuff down stairs and only look at certain sections in the «vintage» areas. Even most of the vintage stuff is far more expensive than it needs to be and much of it isn’t vintage and you can buy the same coats shirts/​skirts at Goodwill for a tenth the price! Save your money and skip this store.

I think this store is overpriced.

I feel out of place with my low rating for Cactus Flower, but really, there’s a lot of better boutiques i’ve seen out there. Cactus has a small, overpriced collection of new clothing with an upstairs vintage section. The staff isn’t too helpful as well. I would recommend Cha Cha and Pitaya, two cute clothing shops about a block away!

this store is pretty great for consigning as well as buying. in addition to cute boutiquey designer stuff and vintage swag, they sell items crafted by local artists. if you visit, be sure to check out the earrings made of little toys, puzzle pieces, and fake birds; my friend kristi made those.

GREAT store. I’ve gotten so many great vintage clothing items from Cactus Flower at reasonable prices. The new clothes downstairs are nice, too, but usually too pricey for me. Accessories selection is pretty good, though. This is my favorite place to shop for clothes in Bloomington. :]

I loved this little store and would have given it a whopping 5 stars however, they did leave the security tag in my lovely green new clutch (when you live in Chicago, this is an inconvenience).
Great prices, great selection of fun and funky clothing. I agree with other comments, if this store were in Chicago, prices would have been tripled!!! Loved that downstairs they had their new merchandise and upstairs was their vintage clothing. Perfect and spent way too much money here. LOVE IT!!!

My commentary only applies to the vintage/​upstairs portion, fyi. Cactus Flower has a wide variety of vintage clothes – from really delicate 1900’s-1930’s (literally behind a rope) to a rounder of 1940’s-1950’s dresses and plenty of 1960’s to 1980’s all upstairs. I found a fab old 80’s prom dress for a theme party and have found some great wearable 40’s/ 50’s dresses as well. They have quite a few belts, purses, shoes, scarves, hats, undergarments and tops, skirts and cardigans. This is a great shop and I stop here every time I’m in Bloomington! The prices are reasonable and seems they have a wide variety of sizes in vintage as well. I saw quite a few extra large dresses in very good condition and of course, every vintage seller has the really small sizes. I wear a modern day 8 or 10 and I always find something that fits as well. If you like to wear vintage clothes, you’re sure to find something here.

‘Cactus Flower’ is on my list of things-​to-​do every time i’m in Bloomington.
a veritable cave of wonders.
{leave your wallet in the car.}

VERY DECENT selection. I’d definitely hit this store up next time I come into Bloomington. Their accessories selection is great and the price range is extremely affordable. Chicago’s versions of these stores would totally jack up their prices, so I found even the clothing prices very reasonable.
The entire second floor is dedicated to vintage. Quirky and fun stuff!
If I ever visit Bloomington again, this store will be my first stop.

love it. they often beat dumber stores (like urban outfitters) to hip clothing trends but rarely get credit. the sunglasses and accessories are beautiful and affordable, and the new clothing is dreamy. it’s a lot like a small chicago boutique in the selection. the vintage upstairs is well edited, and represents the gaudy/​fabulous, retro/​horrid/​amazing, and totally wearable everyday goods categories really well. the staff is always friendly, the music playing is always adorable… if they had any new men’s clothing, that’s the only place i’d shop.

Nice collection of vintage wears. Check it out often as it changes a lot.

There’s a great variety of clothing here, with a good price range. I bought a great vintage bathing suit for a reasonable price, and also a pair of vintage sunglasses. Definitely should check it out if you’re in the area, if not to buy something, at least to have fun trying on vintage clothes with friends!

Last time I checked, used shirts from Old Navy don’t qualify as «vintage clothing.» Someone should inform the men’s clothes buyer of this fact because I’ve seen several Old Navy shirt in Cactus Flower’s mens section.
That said, their women’s selection seems much hipper.