IAIowa field entry
Abernathy's
Davenport, IA
A Davenport shop proudly built around 'Vintage, Handmade, and Weird,' where decades of clothing, gothic fashion, handmade jewelry, local art, antiques, bones, macabre objects, tarot goods and oddities occupy the same colorful storefront.
Abernathy's blends serious vintage and alternative fashion with handmade art, jewelry, antiques, oddities and macabre merchandise in a downtown Davenport store that treats 'weird' as one of its core departments.
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Why it belongs
Vintage clothing store, alternative boutique, gothic fashion shop, jewelry store, art market, antique shop, oddities cabinet, home-decor store, tarot counter, and novelty shop.
The clothing business alone is substantial, but Abernathy's keeps deliberately crossing into handmade art, antiques and natural or macabre curiosities rather than staying inside a normal fashion category.
Abernathy's opened in Davenport in 2013 and now operates from West 3rd Street after a 2019 flood forced the business out of its original downtown location. Its current identity is summed up by the phrase 'Vintage, Handmade, and Weird.' True vintage and vintage-inspired clothing share space with alternative and gothic fashion, handmade jewelry and art, antiques, home décor and changing oddities. The weird inventory can move through bones, antique medical imagery, tarot goods, taxidermy-related pieces and other macabre objects, making the shop as much a curiosity cabinet as a clothing boutique.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Vintage, Handmade, and Weird
- True vintage clothing
- Alternative and gothic fashion
- Handmade jewelry
- Handmade art
- Antiques
- Oddities
- Bones and macabre material
- Tarot merchandise
- Unusual décor
- Downtown Davenport