What we do…

Melbourne Op Shop Tours offers you the most stylish and sustainable of adventures through Melbourne’s second-hand wonderlands. We recognise that everyone wants to look chic in stylish outfits, deck out their place in unique and period homewares, shop sustainably, support charities and guard their hip pocket from the unrelenting mark-ups in retail stores. Our tour guides – all expert op shoppers – will show you the best op shops, second-hand boutiques and vintage stores around and help you style your finds.

Tour groups are kept nice and small to make sure everyone has a chance to pick up some fabulous bargains without having to resort to fighting their fellow op shoppers.

Trust us when we say that there is nothing quite like the thrill of finding something incredible after rifling through racks and racks of clothes or spotting that classic you have been meaning to read jammed between a microwave cookbook circa the 1980s and ‘The Joy of Grilling’.

If this all sounds foreign to you, we are more than happy to teach you the art of rifling through racks and spotting hidden treasures.

A little history…

Melbourne Op Shop Tours is the stylish, sassy and sustainable love-child of Jessica, Richmond and Jenny. The idea was born in 2008, and after a whirlwind of an existence from winning entrepreneurial competitions and making friends on Twitter and Facebook (Scroll down to friend/follow!), we began taking some very lovely groups of op shoppers to treasure troves all over Melbourne in September 2009!

Here and now…

We said a sad goodbye to Richmond at the start of this year, but are looking ahead to an exciting 2010 with bigger and better Melbourne tours and the launch of Perth and Sydney Op Shop Tours.

Say hello to Jess and Jen…

Despite being raised in Kalgoorlie, Jenny has embraced Melbourne and all it has to offer in its entirety since moving here 6 years ago. She has a wealth of knowledge of op shops all over town, and if you’re lucky enough to have her as your tour guide, make sure you also ask her to reveal some of her favourite food and coffee places. While at home, Jenny is normally at ease with a cup of tea, this merely disguises her fabulous ability to throw together a stylish outfit – one that more often than not will contain a piece of clothing discovered in the children’s section of an op shop!

Born and bred in Melbourne, Jess has a sixth sense for op shops and finds them wherever she is in the world. From the charity shops of London to the consignment stores of New York, the thrift shops of San Francisco to the second hand stores of Yogyakarta, Jess can usually be found having a browse of the local second hand treasures. A committed op shopper with a passion for being environmentally friendly Jess has the most extensive op shop wardrobe spanning costumes, ball gowns, office wear and accessories from every decade. Blessed with an exceptional sense of style and imagination, she can often be found outshining more pricey ensembles in an outfit that cost less than lunch.

Feel free to drop us a line if you want to find out a bit more about any of the tour routes.

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