Clothing Stores
Work n Play Clothing Company
About Work n Play Clothing Company
An independent clothing shop off the Luckakuck Way strip.
The national chains are left out of this directory, and in Chilliwack that removes Cottonwood Centre, Eagle Landing and most of the clothing sold in the city. The layer underneath is what gets listed: boutiques in the downtown around Wellington Avenue and the District 1881 blocks, a substantial consignment and second-hand trade, suppliers of western wear and workwear that exist because a great many people here work outdoors or on a farm, and a handful of specialists in Sardis. Work n Play Clothing Company belongs to that shorter list.
Its address places it off the Luckakuck Way strip, which sets an independent shop within sight of the largest concentration of chain retail in the eastern Fraser Valley. Sardis is only the fourth largest neighborhood by area and carries a wildly disproportionate share of the city's storefronts, so the passing trade is there; so is the competition. Independent clothing survives here on the things a chain cannot easily do, which usually comes down to fit, advice, or stock that nobody else in the city bothers to carry. There is no way to say which strand of the local clothing business this shop occupies, because what is on file gives a category and a location and then stops.
No phone number and no website are recorded, and no street address either, only a postal code and a map position. That combination leaves a visit as more or less the only way to find out what is on the racks, and it is worth allowing for the possibility that the shop has moved or changed since this information was last updated, since independent retailers turn over faster than mall tenancies do. The upside, when one of them does fit what you are after, is the thing the mall cannot manage. A shop this size is usually one where the person behind the counter chose the stock, and can tell you why, and will remember next time what you asked for.
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