Clothing Stores
Boardwalk
About Boardwalk
A wedding next weekend, a first week at a new job, a school photo day that snuck up faster than expected: those are the errands that send someone into a clothing store with a deadline attached, rather than browsing for its own sake. Fit is unpredictable and sending things back is tedious, which is what keeps a street of small clothing shops viable in a city carrying the retail load for everything around it, and Vernon does exactly that job for the North Okanagan.
Boardwalk is at 2908 31 Ave, sharing its address with another business in the tight downtown blocks where the shaded storefronts run one into the next. Independent clothing retail turns its stock over by season rather than by catalogue, so what hangs on the rack in March is largely gone by August. Sizes tend to come in ones and twos rather than deep stacks, which means the thing you liked last week may simply not be there when you come back for it.
If you are driving in from one of the surrounding townships for something specific, phone ahead and ask whether it can be held for the afternoon. It is also fair to ask about the return window, and whether exchanges are handled differently from refunds, because small shops set their own terms and those terms are not always the ones you have got used to from a chain. Trying things on while you are standing there saves the second trip altogether.
Visiting Boardwalk
Getting there
In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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