Mary & Mavis

Named for owner Anna Vincent's two grandmothers and run from a small cottage of roughly their vintage, this Glenlyon Street boutique trades in women's fashion, shoes and accessories alongside a tightly edited range of homewares, art and gifts. The proposition is a curated one, clothing chosen against the owner's line that life is too short to wear boring clothes, and it reads as a personal shop rather than a stockist of the obvious labels. In a city where retail runs heavily to the big centres and the chains, it is one of the few genuinely independent boutiques, the sort of place regulars visit as much for the owner's eye as for any single rack. Open weekdays and Saturday mornings.