The Circa Vintage Archive is a large private collection of Australian everyday womens fashion, and includes over two hundred years of clothing as well as accessories.
It started as a personal wardrobe in 1980 which grew into a collection which became a shop: Circa Vintage Clothing, based in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy in 2004.
Later, Circa expanded into a webshop, a pop-up shop at Southland Shopping Centre and an upstairs salon in Melbourne’s glorious Art Deco Mitchell House in the CBD before closing its retail arm in 2020.
The collection is now available for display and research and is in the process of being digitised – view the collection online at ehive.
“Celebrating Style – 1950s Fashion” exhibition, included over a hundred authentic pieces from the Circa Vintage collection.
Glen Eira Art Gallery, The Storytelling Festival 2016