Ragstock — Local services in Bloomington

I went here today with my boyfriend and very soon into our visit, we were taken aback to hear the male employee behind the counter loudly and casually use the “R” slur. My boyfriend is hard of hearing so I didn’t expect to see him looking at me in shock after I heard it, but whatever. We don’t know this man so perhaps there’s a reason he feels entitled to use that word around customers, idk, but we continue on.

I find 4 vintage t-shirts and we go to check out. The male employee checks us out and jokes about how he has to do it one-handed bc he’s eating a heart-shaped lollipop. He removes the hangers from the t-shirts through the collar, stretching out the collar of each shirt over the hanger. My heart sank.

I love vintage clothes and that’s mostly what I buy and wear, and this is one of the worst things you can do to vintage t-shirts. There’s no reason to remove the shirt from the hanger through the top. It’s quicker and easier to take it out from the bottom, and the collar remains safe and in tact.

I get in the car and immediately check the collars. Two look the same, one is a bit stretched, but another is stretched pretty badly.

I go in and say I would like to return it, how I felt hesitant to say something when I saw him do it, and the guy who did it readily apologized.

I explained what I explained earlier, that the hangers should always be removed through the bottom, and the female employee is not happy. She says “We work with vintage clothing all day every day and it can’t be kept in perfect condition”. I told her she is correct, nothing can be perfectly preserved, but stretching a collar on a shirt degrades the clothing rapidly and can cause permanent damage. She repeats herself: “We work with vintage clothing all day, every day”.

Best part: the collar on the shirt she was wearing was stretched out and misshapen. Yes, I understand you work with vintage clothing every day, but if you are stretching out shirt collars to remove a hanger/put the shirt on the hanger, you are mishandling and damaging vintage clothing every day.

I wasn’t going to leave this review, but when I got home and removed the tags from the 3 shirts I didn’t return, I notice that every single price tag the store put on the shirts was inserted into the actual fabric. Again, there is no reason to do this. It puts a hole through the fabric. It is common knowledge in the clothing world that price tags should be placed through the clothing item’s existing tag. Piercing the tag doesn’t matter; piercing through the...

It’s a great place to find a very large selection of vintage clothing. (Walls of 90’s sweaters, flannels, denim jackets, 80’s windbreakers, and vintage T-shirts).

The prices are honestly not that bad with some things being very reasonable. I don’t mind spending 25 dollars on a heavy vintage sweater or 40 bucks on a winter jacket. Button ups were around 15. I don’t think I saw anything over 60 dollars in there.

They have their brand name new stuff there as well, I would say less than half of their store is new items. I didn’t have much interest personally but it didn’t seem bad. Just a lot of vibrant micro trendy items that were not size inclusive, if that’s something you’re looking for.

However the vintage items had a very decent mix of sizing from XS-XXL.

Over all a good place to shop, it’s huge in there and two stories tall. The staff were friendly enough, for the most part keep to themselves and leave you to shop which I...

The quality of this store far exceeded my expectations! I usually don't find much at this type of store because they are usually just 90s t-shirts and that's not my thing. Well, they definitely had those if that is your thing, but SO MUCH MORE! There was vinatge clothing for multiple eras. The new clothing looked carefully curated - there were so many adorable pieces (the cutest crop tops which I can't personally pull off but dang, are they cute)! And prices were good too. A lot of stuff in the $20-ish range and upstairs had $5 racks. Employees were super friendly, too. Overall, just very very impressed...