Above a stretch of 109 Street shared with the boutiques Dolly’s and The Common, Edmonton’s Lawless Vintage occupies a second floor storefront it calls Love Letter, a space co-owned with fellow vintage curator Rylea Coyote. The arrangement reflects how the business has grown since it started in 2018: what began as a single curator’s project has expanded into a shared vintage space bringing together multiple collections under one roof at 9908 109 Street.
The inventory spans decades rather than settling on a single era, with pieces described as ranging from 1950s faux fur coats through 1990s mini dresses, alongside dresses, denim, coats, sweaters, blazers, and accessories chosen individually rather than bought in bulk lots. Lawless Vintage frames its approach around circular fashion, positioning secondhand clothing as a genuine alternative to buying new rather than a novelty, and each piece sold through the shop comes with detailed measurements so buyers shopping online or by appointment can judge fit without trying anything on in person first.
Because the storefront occupies shared, upper floor space above other retailers, hours run on a more limited, curated schedule than a standard street level shop; one recent weekly schedule listed just a Thursday afternoon and evening slot and a short Friday afternoon window, alongside try on appointments available by request. That structure suits a business built around careful, one on one shopping rather than high volume walk in traffic, and it reflects the reality that the shop’s full collection extends well beyond what fits on the sales floor at any given time, with additional pieces held back and rotated in.
Pricing sits in an accessible mid range for genuine vintage, with most items falling between about 38 and 88 dollars, keeping the shop closer to attainable secondhand shopping than high end vintage resale. That pricing, paired with the shop’s emphasis on hand curation over mass sourcing, appeals to shoppers looking for a specific era or silhouette rather than a broad, unsorted rack of secondhand clothing.
Lawless Vintage also describes its work as extending past retail into documentation, exploring vintage fashion through film, photography, and special events rather than treating the shop purely as a transaction point. That broader creative angle, combined with the Love Letter space’s role as a shared home for multiple vintage curators, gives the business a distinct identity within Edmonton’s secondhand clothing scene, one built as much around a community of collectors as around any single storefront.
For shoppers in Edmonton hunting for a specific decade of style, from mid century coats to 90s minimalism, Lawless Vintage offers hand curated, appointment friendly vintage clothing from a shared second floor space on 109 Street, with detailed measurements making remote shopping practical. In short, Lawless Vintage is Edmonton’s appointment based vintage clothing curator, operating out of the shared Love Letter space on 109 Street since 2018.
