Mookah

Sisters Leisa and Nicole Griffiths opened this Smith Street shop in 2011 and have built it around independent Australian and New Zealand makers, favouring sustainability and craft over churn. The stock moves between women's clothing, jewellery and accessories and a well-edited homewares corner of candles, cushions, blankets and books that reads more like a considered curation than a gift shop. In a regional main street where chains do much of the trading, it holds a line as a genuinely independent boutique, drawing shoppers from across West Gippsland. Open six days, closed Sundays. It is the sort of shop that gives a country town a reason to keep its retail local.