Yesterday Store

The premise here is durability: vintage and secondhand clothing chosen for how well it was made and how long it will last, weighted toward military surplus, workwear and denim from the 1960s through the 1990s. Racks turn up specifics - Australian Army Gurkha trousers, American OG-507 fatigues, the occasional deadstock piece never worn. Set against the vintage is a tight editorial selection of contemporary goods from makers like Fog Linen, Futagami and Moonstar, plus a Care and Repair corner stocking the products to keep it all going. That combination - old garments and the means to maintain them - is the shop's argument, summed up in its line that well-made things are built to be looked after, not replaced. On Katoomba Street among the op shops and antique centres, it is the most tightly edited of the town's secondhand rooms.