Petra Vintage — Local services in Beyoğlu

The store is - compared to the other vintage shops in Istanbul - quite huge. In contrast to the other ones this one also has a big collection of tshirts (tshirts are obviously hard to get and usually the stores only have shirts).

It's a rather messy and dusty place with a downstairs area. I would say 10% of the tshirt collection are blue superman tshirts. Don't know why. The rest is mainly the usual boring 90s tshirts. I found 4 that I found unique enough to buy. All of them were very worn out. I bargained a little and got them for roughly 22 Eur what I find a pretty insane price for 4 old, worn out tshirts that were not really special except that I personally found them cool.

I guess if you are on a hunt and have time, it's fun to go through all the stuff and probably you will find some gems. However I only rate three stars for the price, the smell, the dust and the rather...

There are some really unique pieces here! I think that if you really spent your time you could find cool items. But the items are really not inspected, some jeans for 350 liras (expensive in my opinion!) had random holes and stains. There’s a separate damages rack so that shouldn’t be happening. I think the prices are very high for what you’re getting, but that’s my opinion. The dressing room is a makeshift shower curtain and the only employee downstairs sits in a sofa chair one meter away staring right at it. Why is this a problem?!? It doesn’t fully close perfectly and people are walking by in the small space and you or them could easily open it. This was weird as a female and made me feel uncomfortable changing as I could easily flash the employee...

Please ignore the Karens who want to hate on this place... It's fantastic! Sure, there's damaged items and it's in a musty basement but get real.... it's a vintage shop! I spent about an hour digging through the racks and found vintage Lacoste, Hugo Boss, and a massive selection of cool Turkish military jackets for under $1000 lira. The polite employees hanging around downstairs (one of whom was a woman during my visit) are there to discourage theft, not to try and catch a glimpse of people changing... please get over yourself! I highly recommend this place... but if you're super upright, maybe...