Best Baltimore Shopping

Minas exemplifies everything anyone loves about a weird Hampden store. It sells summer frocks, leather jackets, over-sized sunglasses, hand-painted greeting cards, dinosaur toys, cowboy boots and original art. What more could you want? Lots of stuff is quality vintage; in point of fact, these guys were doing vintage way before vintage was cool, and they’ll be doing it after the word loses its pop culture cachet. Have a peek in, and pick up one of those T-Rex figurines for us.

When the discerning Baltimore shopping male needs to indulge his impulse for sartorial spoiling au pied (in regular English: When a guy needs some fine kicks), he heads over to Dan Brothers. We need to stress: There’s a huge and varied selection of women’s footwear here, as well. Ladies, you’ll love it at Dan Brothers. But where this store really shines is men’s shoes; from sneakers to fine loafers you could sport at the Playboy Mansion, they’ve got you (well, your feet) covered here, boys.

Not to make this too personal, but when we took a fashionable friend into this women’s shop she sighed, smiled and said, “I want to buy everything in here,” which oughta tell you everything you need to know about doubledutch. There’s not any one style we can ascribe to the place—some of the clothes are cute pixie-wear, some are sexy vampish, but all of them are stylish as hell. For years doubledutch has been making a name for itself with B’more fashionistas for only carrying the best, most innovative designers. So come see what the fuss is about, and try not to max out your credit card.