Step through the door of Juliette Vintage Boutique d’Antan at 765 Principale Street in Casselman, Ontario, and the first thing that registers is the building itself: a house dating back to 1898 that gives every corner of the shop the kind of period atmosphere no amount of modern staging can fake. Open since October 1, 2015, the boutique has built its identity around that setting, filling the century-old rooms with antique furniture, vintage decor, and one of the more substantial costume rental collections in the region, with more than two thousand costumes available for both children and adults to rent for Halloween, theatre productions, themed parties, and everything in between.
That costume inventory is arguably the boutique’s signature draw. Rather than a rack or two of seasonal Halloween leftovers, Juliette maintains a genuinely large rotating collection spanning children’s and adult sizes and a wide range of characters and eras, giving families in Casselman and the surrounding Prescott and Russell counties a local alternative to big-box costume shops that only stock inventory for a few weeks each October. Combined with the antique furniture and vintage pieces filling the rest of the house, the shop functions as a kind of dual destination, part costume rental counter and part antiques dealer, under one historic roof.
Beyond costumes and antiques, Juliette also carries locally made handcrafted goods from artisans in the area, giving shoppers a way to pick up something distinctly regional alongside a vintage furniture piece or a rented costume. The boutique rounds out its shelves with homemade preserves and spices, an unusual but fitting addition for a shop already built around the idea of slow, handmade, locally rooted goods rather than mass-produced retail merchandise. That combination of costumes, antiques, crafts, and small-batch food items gives Juliette a genuinely varied product mix that is hard to categorize under a single label, which is likely part of its appeal to regulars who come back for different reasons depending on the season.
Casselman itself is a small village in Eastern Ontario along the South Nation River, roughly midway between Ottawa and Cornwall, and a shop like Juliette gives the village a genuine retail destination that draws shoppers from well beyond its own population, particularly around Halloween and other costume-heavy seasons when the rental collection sees its heaviest use. The historic 1898 house that holds the shop is itself part of Casselman’s built heritage, and browsing Juliette doubles as a walk through a well-preserved piece of the village’s architectural history.
For anyone in Eastern Ontario planning a costume need, hunting for a specific antique piece, or simply looking to spend an afternoon browsing a shop with real character, Juliette Vintage Boutique d’Antan offers something genuinely distinct from a standard vintage or thrift store. Housed in a 1898 heritage building in Casselman and stocked with more than two thousand rental costumes alongside antiques, local crafts, and homemade preserves, Juliette Vintage Boutique d’Antan has served the village and its surrounding communities as a one-stop destination for costumes and vintage finds since opening its doors in October 2015.
