This page covers everything from lingerie shops to fetish wear stores and even some alternative wear shops popular with the goth and punk crowds.
Deadly Couture
Billing themselves as “Your source for Punk Fetish Cyber Gothic Lolita Metal Fashion and Accesories,” we have to agree. Well, we agree with everything everything except their refusal to use commas! Deadly Couture makes a wide array of custom clothing to suit all needs and sizes and the store stocks many amazing brands from all over the world. They carry Deadly Couture Corsets and Latex, Polymorphe, Lipservice, Kill city, Polymorphe latex, Demonia, Pleaser, Leg Ave, and many others.
Website: deadlyfetish.com
Location: 317A Cambie Street, Vancouver (downstairs, beneath Venus and Mars)
East Side Re-Rides
East Side Re-Rides, the only dedicated second-hand leather store in Metro Vancouver, sells and consigns new and used leather clothing and motorcycle gear.
For the modern motorcycle rider we’ve got chaps, vests, leather pants, boots, biker jackets, textile jackets, mesh jackets, gloves, helmets, rain gear, and tons of clothing and accessories in all brands.
For leather lovers of all varieties, we have party clothes and hot boots, bar wear and conference outfits for both masculine and feminine sorts.
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Website: re-rides.ca
Location: 7105 Victoria Drive, Vancouver
Flaming Angels Boutique
Miriam Melanson is the proud president and designer of the Flaming Angels creations and the company that produces them. Established in the summer of 2000, Flaming Angels is a steadily growing Vancouver-based Company that is interested in every facet of Avante Garde and Independent Fashion Design. If you’ve attended a fetish night in Vancouver you’ve undoubtedly seen some of Miriam’s work.
Fascinated with the dark, kitsch and uncanny side of underground fashion culture, she is always looking for challenging new projects, and looks forward to getting involved in every edgy, sexy and glamorous show out there! Her Mission? To provide arresting, distinctive and sinfully enticing apparel and accessories for the Alternative cravings of Vancouver and elsewhere. Please contact her with any questions, or to discuss custom design work.
Find the light in darkness and embrace its possibilities.
Website: flamingangels.ca
Location: 4307 Main Street, Vancouver
PRIAPE
Canada’s premiere gay clothing store is your source for inexpensive (not cheap) leather here in Vancouver. In addition to that you’ll find a full selection of sex toys, and the staff that can tell you when, how and why you should use them.
Plus their imaginative and regular changing window displays are worth a trip to the Davie Village all on their own.
For more info on PRIAPE, and the one item we think you shouldn’t leave the store without, check out the Erotic Vancouver Sex Shop page.
Website: priape.com
Location: 1148 Davie Street, Vancouver
Why Knot’s Curiosities
Occupying the space recently vacated by The Kiss Store, Why Knot’s hopes to carry a variety of of costume/playa wear/tribal wear, alternative clothing or accessories. The store also features a gently used consignment component for, as the website describes it, “those preloved items that you just don’t rock anymore, or perhaps never rocked, maybe just not the colour for you this year.“
Website: whyknotscuriosities.com
Location: 1148 Davie Street, Vancouver
Other Shops
You can find clothes that might make the grade fetish wise other places. Women can always hit the numerous lingerie shops around town to put together an outfit. Hell, guys can hit the numerous women’s lingerie shops and definitely put together an outfit that makes the fetish grade.
Army surplus stores offer the opportunity to pick up military dress uniforms, an outfit that will get you in the door at any of Vancouver’s three fetish nights, and which will probably have one of the organizers offering to buy you a drink at NOIR if your pants fit tight enough!
Similarly alternative wear shops Hitz Boutique and Venus and Mars have outfits that might be purpose altered to make the fetish grade, although the majority of what they have to offer isn’t fetish wear per se.
Really, when it comes to making something kinky to wear you’re only limited by your imagination. We’ve seen a fabulous fetish outfit that required only a trip to the shoe closet and the grocery store — you can never go wrong with coloured plastic wrap!
