In need of a 1960s floral mod dress, bright Hawaiian shirt or classic diner server uniform? You'll soon be able to shop these and more in-person at a new vintage clothing store in downtown Duluth.

Orange Crush Studio, located at 208 E. 1st St., will open this spring. It gives the owners and other local vintage sellers a permanent space to sell their products — a need for these small businesses that typically rely on social media and pop-up shops for sales.

“Prices at thrift stores are rising really high. And with us, it's cleaned. It's in good condition. … You're getting there's the story behind it,” Christina Livadaros said. “I think a lot of people in Duluth really, really care about sustainability … (and) care about history.

Livadaros and Becky Scherf run Orange Crush and Voula’s Bombshell Vintage, which will now be housed in the Orange Crush space alongside several other local sellers.

Voula’s can typically only sell what Scherf and Livadaros are able to haul to pop-up shops or post on Instagram. And because vintage clothing sizes don’t align with modern sizing, it’s important to have a space where customers can try on items.

“We'll be able to have a lot more for people to look at. We'll be able to have other items as well — typically, we only bring, like, small knickknacks and clothing,” Livadaros said.

The other sellers in the space include Zenith City Vintage, Meg Stitches, Shrinking Violet Crafts, Thrifty Mtn Hops, Anne Creager Moors and The Witch Wolf.

“It's not easy to open a storefront and to have a space, (so) it felt good for us to kind to do the same for other people that was done for us,” Livadaros said. “And also they have a different aesthetic than us, too.”

Scherf added that, now with multiple brands in the space, there’s bound to be a product for everyone. “It's not just one aesthetic for one group of people,” she said.

“We have people come in — and they're like mom and daughters, or dads and sons, or dads and daughters — that'll come in, and they'll both be able to shop and find stuff they like,” Livadaros said.

Located beneath the new Juice Pharm location, the downstairs is approximately 5,000 square feet and filled with rooms. There’s a room for washing clothes, another one for clothes mending and restoration, several rooms for storage and a room for Scherf’s vintage photography studio.

The main retail space will house thousands of items of clothing, a hangout space complete with vinyl records for listening, and a vending machine that they may fill with orange pop or quirky items, like doll heads. All this will be wrapped in a shade of orange and furnished with secondhand items.

The owners value sustainability. If there’s an item they can’t repair, they will repurpose it into a new item. They hope by offering secondhand clothes, they will make their impact on overcrowding in trash dumps.

“There's a lot of product already out there, and there's not a need to be making more. We just need to learn to take care of what we have,” Livadaros said.

They pick through warehouses, estate sales and the homes of deceased people (by invitation), to find clothing. They wash all of it to remove odors and ensure durability.

Livadaros and Scherf are sentimental about the people whose clothing they take. They have countless stories about their items, and even plan to hang photos of some of them on the walls.

The building once housed the Rocket Bar for around 30 years, and then the Hippo Restaurant took over the space in the early 1980s, according to News Tribune reporting.

Renovations to the space includes a deep clean and removing a stage that belonged to the Red Herring — most of which the owners plan to do themselves.

“We are very DIY,” Scherf said.

The store will likely open in April or May, with plans for a larger grand opening in the summer. It can be accessed from a staircase in The Pharm or through an entrance in its alley. For more information and updates on its opening date, head to the company's Instagram, @orangecrushstudio.