Gossypia

SO many cute Day of the Dead art pieces! Very nice lady as well!

It's a unique little store here on the corner of Royal Royal and Cameron. It's a lot of do you have the dead type themed decor and masks and on and items. They also sell clothing, appears to be used. It's a very compact and stocked corner unit store. They have some interesting items, but my sister-in-law would probably love her. She likes do you have the done type items as well as Frida Kahlo anything.

Gossypia carries the best selection of Flax Englehart clothing in the DC Metro area which is the main reason I shop there. The packed boutique is full of unique and eclectic selections of gifts, accessories, jewelry, and artsy clothing. Enjoy!

I use to live in old town and visited here alot because there are such unique items in this store. The Owner is so sweet and amazing. I came back here for a quick visit and always happen to find something in her store. There is everything imaginable from different countries all over the world with hip and old fashion style. My favorite old town store. Must visit!

If you're looking for unique and quality finds, this is the store!

The store is unique, authentic and funky! Beautiful selection of jewelry! They carry different, artsy brands. The staff is very friendly and helpful! On the top of that they have wedding dresses, from vintage fancy style to casual. I got mine from them and I absolutely love it! The designer is Mon Cheri by Destination. It is classy and graceful whole with lace for less than $300!

And at last if you like folk art or nativities, that shop have all of it. Trully enjoed to shop here and blessed to find my dream wedding dress on such a good price! Thank you, Gossypia!

As someone looking for a wedding dress for under $500, I was delighted to see everything Gossypia had in a size 10/12. It was awesome to see dresses for $69 or even $39, but yes, obviously these wouldn't be as good quality. They also had many Sue Wong dresses for a few hundred, and a lot of in-betweens for around $100. If you're looking for really solid quality, you will be paying more, but then again I imagine you're the type who's used to paying more.

For a fun, eclectic and completely reasonably-priced selection of dresses, this place (seems like it) can't be beat. And, while I was trying on dresses with my mom, we kept swooning over all the cute decor for sale, so that was nice as well :-)

I found so many wonderful clothes here and a great summer hat. All reasonable. The woman who owns the shop made great recommendations and her staff was very polite, accommodating, and helpful. A fun shopping experience!

I went here because I read the negative reviews about their wedding dress selection and I'm a glad I did! No, they don't carry thousand dollar dresses or Cinderella ball gowns but they carry a good selection of brand new dresses that are a little more casual. I bought a Mon Cherie Destination dress and when I showed them a photo they said oh, we have that dress!

I felt like they could really focus on me because I was the only one up there during my appointment. If you want simple, not overly formal but still beautiful and inexpensive go check them out! They're so nice and really helped me pick my dream dress and gave me great reccomendations for a seamstress to get my alterations done.

What are these positive reviews for? This is not a real bridal store! (A lady working there even said that) it is a little odds and ends hippie trinket store. The gowns are upstairs and the ones I saw were $49-$69! Sure sounds great. But obviously they are cheaper then a nice sweater. You get what you pay for. They had no ball gowns and no accessories just weird flat cheap white dresses. Not wedding gowns!

A funky and unique shop! The clothing is very California mature, as I call it - in the Bay Area so many of the mature women wear linen and flowy funky clothes, even I fall for it sometimes. There is a ton to look at, and you'll never know what you'll find. The staff is super helpful! Jewelry and accessories are super fab - I walked out with a beautiful skull cape/shawl that is just to die for and handmade in India.

They have an amazing collection of handmade Indigenous goods from Latin and South America that are unlike anything I've seen outside of those regions or museums. Regardless, this store is a unique and awesome place to visit and unlike any shop in the DC metro area.

Amanda has a keen understanding for Jewelry and Women's clothing. It is a bit of a thrift type store in some ways. She has a lot of items from Mexico. Amandas grandpa owned a cotton field hence the name of the store.

This is a bridal review from the perspective of a wedding vendor. I'm a wedding photographer in the greater DC area and I went to Gossypia with my best friend (the bride) and a few other bridesmaids. I'll go ahead and say that the bride is Sarah E. (another reviewer on here), so if you want the full story of our experience, please read her review.

Her review is filtered along with another bridesmaids review. I wish we had read some of these filtered reviews before going to Gossypia. Overall, it was a completely unprofessional experience. At a typical bridal gown store, you have an appointment set up, you get matched with a salesperson, you pick as many dresses as possible for the bride to try on within that appointment, and it's a fun process for everyone.

This was not the case. We showed up on time for our appointment, our salesperson was late, and she scolded us for pulling dresses for the bride to try on. But honestly, out of everything, the most shocking part was how our salesperson spoke to and about the bride. I've never heard any salesperson speak this way about a potential clients figure.

The salesperson kept referring to the bride as beautiful but "fuller figured" and "bigger than us" so we had to be mindful of the fact that most of the dresses we pulled had to go back on the rack. The worst was when the salesperson claimed the bride was three times bigger than her, so she refused to let the bride try on a gown we all liked, even if it was unzipped.

That took the cake for us and we left the store immediately. We were there maybe 25 minutes tops, but lasted only about 10 minutes with the salesperson there. This is such a shame for a store that has some nice vintage bridal gowns. At this point, it looks like we'll have to look for vintage and vintage-inspired gowns elsewhere, likely in Baltimore or NY. And honestly, it's completely worth the travel to have great salespeople to work with and to potentially leave the store with a wedding gown.

So I have to admit the clothes here are not what I would normally consider my style. Some were very ornate and colorful. What drew me into this interesting little shop though was the jewelry, specifically a pair of unique vintage looking earrings in the window. The two women working that day were very friendly and helpful. One of them retrieved my earrings out of the window, no easy task as this store is packed with items, and offered to let me try them on to see how I liked them.

The price was very reasonable and they were cute - SOLD! They carry not only clothing and jewelry, but all kinds of accessories and also small gift/artsy items that looked to be from Mexico. I would like to come back when I have more time to browse the interesting selection of items they have because I have a feeling there are some things in there (besides earrings) I might like.

Ok first of all: I'd love to know why my review was "filtered." I said nothing inflammatory or derogatory. Second of all: let's see if my review will go through without being filtered again! I went to Gossypia with my husband-to-be to shop for wedding gowns. The gowns were very pretty, but cut very, very small, and not at all kind to women with boobs bigger than a B cup.

I believe this is industry standard. That's what the clerk told me anyway. The woman who "helped" us was very rude and pushy, ignoring my comments and questions for her own opinions. She was very eager to voice her opinion of my body, my style, the way I looked in the dress, etc, NONE of which were positive.

I've always had excellent experiences at this store! Its very charming and i love the selection of various latin american items! : The staff is very kind as well.

I am getting married and so went to Gossypia with two friends because we heard they carry wedding dresses. We did not have an appointment, but the owner herself told a saleswoman to escort us upstairs for an hour or so with the dress selection. The salewoman seemed more interested in a customer buying a folk art knick-knack than us and ran through the "sizing and organization" speech in a hurried, monotone voice that wasn't welcoming.

She told us a few of the designers, many of which are not solely wedding dress designers, like Sue Wong, and seemed shocked that I already knew my size in those dresses because I owned one already. She was patronizing and acted offended by us, even though we were smartly dressed and in our late 20s/early 30s. If you were a mother of the bride, or perhaps someone looking for a second wedding dress, I could see how the selection might be appealing. But as someone who walked into the shop with money to spend on a wedding dress, they were rude, disinterested in simply couldn't be bothered.

A great place for brides who don't want the silly "it's your special day" sales pitch and who don't want to spend over $1000. A ton of dresses - all off the rack but they sent me to a great local dressmaker for the adjustments needed to have it fit perfectly - and it was easy to find one that was just right. They like you to book a time so they can have someone there to help and my friends and I went in, I tried on a dozen or so dresses, the sales lady was as honest as my friends about what looked silly and what looked just right, and 45 minutes later I had a new wedding dress for $500.

Not that I ever plan on getting married again (!), but I wouldn't hesitate to go here again or to recommend it to anyone lookign to get married without buying into the silly princess drama.

I'm not usually a fan of flowy, linen, oversized clothes, but every once in a while I'll try on something that normally wouldn't be my style and it turns out to look quite nice. This place is filled to the brim wih those kinds of clothes. Today was that kind of day, and I found a few tops here to my liking. They have a lot of clothes, bags and artsy things imported from Mexico, Guatemala, etc.

And here comes the depressing part: one of the things I bought today was a violet colored huipil. A huipil is a traditional blouse, usually embroidered at the neck, worn by Mayan women in Guatemala and Chiapas. Each region has a different type of huipil and different colored fabrics and embroidery (I don't know these differences, so don't ask).

The huipil at Gossypia cost me about $50. Now, you would think that I, being from Guatemala, would have some sort of inside track and could get a huipil there for much cheaper. No, I could not. The indians, who have gotten quite clever at selling their wares, charge about the same amount of money for them there as they do here. In dollars. To make matters even more depressing, the quality of the huipiles here is actually better, because these huipiles are made to be exported.

In other words, they keep the dodgy stuff for their countrymen and stupid tourists, and send the good stuff somewhere else. And that's why Guatemala is in trouble, IMHO: they never hold on to the good stuff. In any case, the amount of goods for sale at Gossypia is overwhelming, as is the amount of lovely ladies all up in your face as you look around and try things on.

It kind of made me crazy. They also have air conditioning issues, as in, they seem to not believe in it. They have a bridal section upstairs, full of vintage-looking wedding and party dresses. Here is my confession: although it might not be considered cool to actually want to get married, or to even think about it, I occasionally like to daydream about the subject.

As in "this is what will happen in the future." kind of thing. Gossypia definitely indulged me. Besides clothing, they have jewelry, bags, little nativity sets, small statues, a whole bunch of interesting stuff. It's definitely worth a look when you are in the area. Old Town Alexandria is such a nice neighborhood, too. Afterwards, walk down to the river and hang out, maybe even stop into the Torpedo Factory to take in some local art. 3.5 stars

I'm sorry, but the lady who "helped" us was rude and acted like we were going to steal something. she wouldn't let us go to the upstairs part until a person came down and then proceeded to get annoyed when we asked her questions about the jewelry. The clothes are definitely not modern nor high quality, so unless you are looking for something for Halloween I would say don't bother.

Ok, the clothes here are not my style. At all. But my friend was in town and looking for Day of the Dead stuff for a engagement party gift. We went in and a sales associate took us up to the second floor where all the knick knacks are. Everything was wonderful and clearly handcrafted. My friend picked up bride and groom skeletons that the actual bride-and-groom-to-be loved.

This store is completely packed to the gills with clothes and to my eyes doesn't look particularly organized-- not good for someone like me who likes stores that are easy to shop on their own. But they had a great (organized!) jewelry selection, lots of silver and turquoise. I will definitely go back to pick up some jewelry for my relatives who like chunky necklaces and earrings.

I almost forgot to post a review of this place in my flurry of reviews of places I discovered at the Old Town Warehouse Sale. At the sale, the shop owner had a table full of shirts with different textures and an array of colors. I picked up a blue v-neck that has little raised circles on it (it is hard to explain, I posted a pic). I checked out the store to find arty-inspired items as well as some unique jewelry. Gossypia also has a wide selection of wedding dresses that can be used for an informal or destination type wedding.