Heather R.
Yelp
Hitchcock is utterly amazing. Somewhere between a gallery and an accessory store, it's quickly become one of my favorite places in Seattle. How did it take me give years to find this place? Erica is the most unpretentious fashionista I've ever met. Since my first trip in, every purchase has been an instant favorite-thing-I-own, even though none of them felt practical at the time (and Erica's fashion sense has inspired other style! I combed the whole world for green italian leather gloves like hers and everybody likes them).
On my first time in, I bought a textile sculpture (poncho? blanket? I call it my slanket) by a local artisan who reworks abandoned blankets and uses elaborate origami folds to keep from wasting any material at all. It sounds like high fashion weirdity, right? I wear that EVERY DAY. It keeps me warm and people stop me in the street to compliment my ... slanket. It's totally psychedelic and rock and roll. Next two purchases have been a hostess gift (a necklace with a pyrite) and I'm about to pick up a leather/Sterling cuff. My whole current wish list is from Hitchcock. Their in house brand stuff is amazing and creative, they're constantly changing stock and it's deliciously avant garde.
No standard pearls or standard anything here. Prices range from reasonable to stratospheric (and it's really hard to tell which bauble costs $60 and which one costs a pony -- I suggest browsing or getting help; the help I've gotten from Erica has me layering bracelets for the first time in my life). Also, read their blog. If they took themselves seriously, it would be such a drag. Their wit and weirdness make me wanna be their best friend / give them american dollars.