12 stores · curated ORBIS register
A small shirt range accompanies the boards at Takeda Custom Surfboards, whose Currumbin workshop produces clothing under its Takeda Goods line. Saba grew from Joe Saba's Shirt and Sweater Shop, opened on Melbourne's Flinders Lane in 1965. The Saba brand itself launched in 1974, separating the label's name from the earlier history of the shop. Commas uses European fabrics for shirts and swim shorts, with resortwear forming part of its Australian design range.
Central Australia, Alice Springs
Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists is a Central Australian art centre based at 47 Elder St, Ciccone, Mparntwe (Alice Springs), open 10am-4pm Monday to Friday. Artists produce works on paper, paintings, light shades and t-shirts depicting the life and surrounds of the region.
Best for Central Australian Aboriginal art centre
Central Australia, Alice Springs
Town Camp Designs is a 100% Aboriginal owned and run art centre at 16 Fogarty Street, Alice Springs, created by Ewyenper Atwatye, Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Artists create designs based on paper and ink, which are applied to merchandise including t-shirts, hoodies, enamel pins, scarves and tote bags, with all profit going to artists' fees and future projects.
Best for Paper and ink designs on merchandise
Currumbin, Gold Coast
Yoshiro 'Yosh' Takeda has shaped surfboards under his own name in Currumbin for close to two decades, building classic longboards, fishes and single fins as well as high-performance shortboards. The Traders Way workshop also produces Takeda Goods, a small line of shirts and surf accessories.
Best for Custom surfboards and longboards
Australia
Melbourne label opened by Joe Saba in 1965 as the Joseph Saba Shirt and Sweater Shop on Flinders Lane; the Saba brand launched in 1974. Sold to Daniel and Danielle Besen in 2002, then to the Apparel Group in 2005, which moved headquarters to Sydney.
Best for Australian tailored clothing
Joe Saba, an Australian designer of Lebanese descent born in 1940, opened his first shop at 287 Flinders Lane in Melbourne in 1965. He launched a denim label called Staggers in 1969, and in 1974 established the Saba label itself, which expanded to menswear and womenswear and grew to as many as 17 stores. In the 1980s, Saba's stores also sold Japanese avant-garde designers Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto in the Australian market. Joe Saba won the Australian Fashion Menswear Award in 1996. He sold the business to Daniel and Danielle Besen in 2002; the Apparel Group acquired Saba in 2005 and relocated its head office from Melbourne to Sydney shortly after.
Sydney / Australia / Online
Commas makes swim shorts, shirts and resortwear in European fabrics with Australian production or design roots. The refined range bridges swimming and hotel dressing rather than focusing on technical surf performance.
Best for Australian luxury swimwear
Sydney / Australia / Online
Australian seaside brand — reinventing the Hawaiian shirt with bright, brave, fun designs. Seaside styles for the summer wardrobe.
Best for Bright Australian seaside shirts
Australia
Sydney-founded Australian clothing retailer established in 1978 to bridge designer fashion and the mainstream middle market; sells tailored suiting, shirts and accessories for men and women.
Best for Australian business wear
Oxford is an Australian clothing retailer founded in 1978 in Sydney's eastern suburbs, created to sit between costly designer labels and the crowded middle market that then dominated Sydney retail. Through the 1980s it built a reputation as a more design-forward, trend-aware alternative to mainstream department-store fashion, expanding into a national omnichannel business selling tailored suiting, shirts, outerwear, footwear and accessories for both men and women. The company describes its guiding line as 'fashion is transitory but style is permanent.'
Sydney / Australia
P Johnson makes finely tailored menswear and ready-to-wear womenswear, offering made-to-measure suiting and shirting guided by expert fitters alongside a full online shop. Beyond its Sydney showrooms on Elizabeth Street and in Paddington, the label runs showrooms reaching Melbourne, Brisbane, Jakarta, New York and London.
Best for Tailoring, made-to-measure, menswear, shirtmaking
Sydney / Australia / Online
Australian bespoke tailor and shirtmaker — soft tailoring and custom shirts. One-piece collar available on bespoke request.
Best for Australian bespoke one-piece collar shirts
Enmore, Sydney
Tengu Records is an independent vinyl shop in Enmore, near Newtown Station, describing its stock as rare and collectible vinyl including Japanese pressings. Alongside LPs, 45s and CDs, it sells cassettes, posters and t-shirts.
Best for Rare and japanese pressing vinyl
Australia
Australian license of the US shirting brand Van Heusen, held by Gazal Corporation since 1976 and folded into a PVH-Gazal joint venture in 2014; the leading department-store business-shirt brand in Australia.
Best for Australian business shirts
Van Heusen's Australian business runs on a licensing arrangement rather than direct ownership by the brand's US parent. Gazal Corporation acquired the rights to manufacture and manage Van Heusen in Australia in 1976, and in 2014 that relationship was formalized into PVH Brands Australia, a joint venture between Gazal and PVH Corp, the New York company that owns Van Heusen, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. Van Heusen is marketed in Australia as the top-selling business shirt brand in department stores, built on the original brand's history around the patented soft-folding collar introduced in the US in 1919. This is a licensed manufacturing and retail operation rather than an independent Australian house.
Australia
Australian menswear chain launched 1995, now part of Retail Apparel Group (owned by South Africa's Foschini Group); sells affordable tailored suits, party/festival shirts and slim-fit clothing across Australia, NZ and Singapore.
Best for Australian young menswear
Yd. launched in Australia in 1995 as an affordable menswear label aimed at younger, style-conscious shoppers, building its range around slim-fit suiting, dress and party/festival shirts, knitwear and outerwear. The brand is now part of Retail Apparel Group, itself wholly owned by the Foschini Group, a South African retail conglomerate that also owns menswear brands such as Politix and Connor. Yd. operates stores across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. In 2022 the brand began rolling out a redesigned store concept - created with design firm Landini Associates - at locations including Highpoint in Melbourne and Eastgardens in Sydney. Yd.'s positioning sits in the mass-market, trend-driven segment of menswear rather than premium tailoring.
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