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Gravel & Gold
HOUSEWARES, GIFTS
Get back to the land and in touch with your roots, without ever leaving sight of a Mission
sidewalk. Gravel & Gold celebrates California's hippie homesteader movement with a line
of trippy totes, smock-dresses and throw pillows alongside vintage artifacts such as silk-
screened '60s Osborne/Woods ecology posters, rare books on '70s beach-shack architec-
ture, and hand-thrown hippie stoneware mugs.
(
415-552-0112;
www.gravelandgold.com
; 3266 21st
St;
noon-7pm Mon-Sat, to 5pm Sun;
24th St Mission,
24th St Mission)
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Needles & Pens
Do it yourself or DIY trying: this scrappy zine/how-to/art gallery delivers the inspiration to
create your own magazines, rehabbed T-shirts or album covers. Nab Brendan Monroe's
Is-
lands
comic illustrating traffic islands and man as an island, Tahiti Pehrson's three-dimen-
sional, hand-cut paper mandalas, plus alphabet buttons to pin your own credo onto a hand-
made messenger bag.
(
GIFTS, BOOKS
415-255-1534;
www.needles-pens.com
; 3253 16th St;
noon-7pm;
14, 22, 33,
49,
16th St Mission)
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Betabrand
Crowdsource your style at Betabrand, where experimental fashions are put to an online
vote and winners are produced in limited editions. Recent approved designs include lunch-
meat-patterned socks, reversible smoking jackets, disco-ball windbreakers and bike-to-
work pants with reflective-strip cuffs. Some styles are clunkers (including 'sweans,' sweat-
pant jeans) but at these prices you can afford to take fashion risks.
(
CLOTHING
800-694-9491;
www.betabrand.com
; 780 Valencia St;
11am-6pm Mon-Thu, to 7pm Fri & Sat, noon-6pm Sun;
14, 22, 33, 49,
16th St Mission)
