Clothing Stores
Bootlegger
About Bootlegger
Shoppers heading for Bootlegger are heading for 2271 Harvey Avenue, a single address shared by dozens upon dozens of businesses on the Dilworth side of Kelowna. The scale of the place is the point. Rather than a storefront with its own front door and its own parking problem, a shop here is one stop inside a much larger errand, which suits a city where residents routinely drive between districts to get anything done at all.
Buying clothes in person still comes down to fit, and fit is the reason to walk in rather than order online. Sizing runs differently between labels and between seasons within the same label, so the fitting room does work no size chart can. A quick call to 250-860-3570 before setting out is the way to find out whether something you have seen online is actually in the building, whether it can be held at the counter, and how returns work when a purchase moves between the website and the shop floor. Those policies are not always the same.
Timing helps too. The complex is busiest through the summer visitor season and again in the run-up to Christmas, and quietest on weekday mornings in the shoulder months, when there is room to try things on properly and someone free to ask. Anyone driving in from Rutland, Black Mountain or the Mission benches should budget for the traffic rather than the distance, since Kelowna is spread out and the roads carry the weight of that in July. Store details are posted at bootlegger.com.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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