DHABERDASHERY — Local services in Tacoma

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO OWN A BUSINESS, DON’T. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE HONEST WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS, DON’T. My encounter with the owner of this store and my attempts to visit were futile and fruitless as every attempt I made to shop here resulted in me leaving disappointed after finding out the shop was closed. I had been visiting Seattle and went out of my way to travel to Tacoma on New Year’s to visit D Haberdashery as well as the stores adjacent on the same street. I had asked the owner if he was to be open on New Years in which he responded “Yes I may”. This was through an Instagram exchange. I acknowledged this and then responded by saying that I was planning to pop by then. Please note that the hours posted on this shop’s address on Google indicated that it would be open on New Years as well as the day following. Also, please note that this shop has an Instagram and was fully capable of posting any announcements on there to make their customer’s aware of any issues that had arisen. However, upon arriving to this store on the aforementioned day, it was closed along with every other store on the block. Fine, New Years is a day in which many decide to close, but then make your customers aware of this by updating your hours. Or just do anything. Upon calling the shop I was told that the following day which would’ve been a STANDARD WORK DAY would have the owner of the shop in attendance with the shop open at the posted time, being 11:00am. I then travelled all the way back to Tacoma after doing so the day prior and showed up at 11:00, just to find that the store owner was not in the shop and that the shop was closed. I thought this was a sick joke at first. I mean, what is going on here??? No announcements on social media, no changing of the hours on Google, nothing, nothing, nothing. Just irresponsible silence. The other stores on the same block, which were also supposed to be open at 11:00 were closed as well. I truly thought that I was being made to believe that I was the villain here. That I was bothering these shops and begging for them to serve me. I soon found out that the owner of this shop had suffered some sort of medical accident, which I have no way of knowing is true or not. For all I know, this could be another lazy attempt to not show up to work on a scheduled work day. I mean, with how negligent the other shops in the area are, I have no reason to believe otherwise. If a medical accident did occur, a quick post on social media would’ve been the bare minimum. Overall, I feel as though I had wasted hours of my vacation time travelling to show up to a shop that just didn’t care, which is just incredibly, incredibly unfortunate. I have never left a review like this but I am just so appalled. Truly,...

Visited a few months ago and thoroughly enjoyed chatting with the owner, though I didn't catch his name! Really cool guy with fun stories who obviously just lives and breathes vintage. I wasn't browsing clothing that day so I didn't look through the bulk of his wares, but what I glanced in passing and the one or two racks I did flip through were full of genuine vintage gems - and priced as such for what I could see. His stuff is awesome, just don't come with a thrift store mindset! This is not clothing off the rack at goodwill, not things you'll want to pick up and wear to your retail job. If I'm in the market for something special for an event in the future, I'll definitely look here. I did browse through a number of his shoes and he had some amazing unusual vintage Doc Martens etc for great prices.

Clothing aside, he has a handful of display cases with oodles of vintage jewelry and accessories, as well as a fun mishmash of small antiques and ephemera. I spent most of my visit examining the jewelry cases, and he was more than happy to pull out all of the bits and bobs I wanted to look closer at. I was also on the hunt for uranium glass and tickled to find a few pieces hiding in displays full of jewelry or propping up other items! None were marked with prices so I had to put on my big boy pants and ask. He was surprised by my interest but happy enough to put a number on most, all reasonable even though he could've easily inflated his price in the face of my obvious interest! Very honest seller. In the end I left with a beautiful antique sterling and amber ring plus a fun uranium glass dish with a little deal on both. Next time you're on antiques row stop in for a fun chat and some...

I'm very grateful to have been able to sell my recently deceased husband's classic hat collection to the Dhaberdashery today. He was Mack, the Greenman of our living microgreens business we started 12 years ago selling to upscale restaurants in Tacoma and around the Puget Sound. Mack was known for his wonderful full beard and classy hats. It makes me feel good to know these hats he loved to wear will continue to be loved by their new owners, and I know they will be thrilled to find them....