First, refunds.

If you were a stallholder or shopper affected by the sudden closure of our Mt Gravatt Showgrounds weekly Sunday fashion markets, we are so sorry.

We know many people in our community miss our Mt Gravatt Fashion Markets. We do too.

After our markets were abruptly shut down in April, we contacted stallholders directly and refunds were issued. Some of our stallholders opted to transfer their booking to one of our other locations and continue to sell with us in our new spots. If you have any questions about refunds, please contact us directly at wardrobe.markets@gmail.com.

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has stayed with us through what has been a very unexpected and difficult chapter. Your support has been incredibly powerful in helping us grow, we are very grateful.

Seeing familiar faces at our new markets in Red Hill, Indooroopilly, Newstead and Tugun has meant an enormous amount to us. Thank you! So many people being so kind to us is a wonderful reminder of the thrifterhood we have built, it means a lot.

If you've discovered us through the Mt Gravatt story...

You may have come across Her Wardrobe Markets through the recent coverage and online discussion rather than through one of our markets that was recently closed abruptly.

If you're interested in what happened, we thought a little context might be useful.

Her Wardrobe Markets has been operating for more than a decade, and our history in fashion and events goes back even further to 2003. We've hosted more than 500 markets and welcomed hundreds of thousands of shoppers and sellers over the years.

Our Mt Gravatt Fashion Markets on Sundays were a particularly important part of that story.

For more than ten years, we built a community there alongside thousands of sellers, shoppers, families, friends and local businesses.

We are incredibly proud of what that community built; at became the weekly circular fashion engine of Brisbane. Something truly to be proud of.

We also want to acknowledge something important.

When you have been operating a customer-facing business for more than two decades and have interacted with hundreds of thousands of people, it would be unrealistic to suggest that every single person has had a perfect experience.

They haven't.

If we have provided poor customer service or got something wrong, we are sorry. We are not perfect. We keep showing up and trying our best, even when things get tough.

Honest feedback has helped us learn. We listen and we try our best to treat our community fairly and respectfully.

What happened at Mt Gravatt?

We were invited to establish our markets at Mt Gravatt Showgrounds with the intention of growing the market offering there, including regular weekly Sunday markets.

We did that.

For more than a decade, the markets became a significant part of our business and, more importantly, a significant part of many people's weekends.

In 2025, the Mt Gravatt Showgrounds Trust undertook a Master Plan consultation process. We were deeply disappointed that our business and the large community of women who had participated in our markets over many, many years were excluded from that process.

That led to a serious disagreement between ourselves and the Mt Gravatt Showgrounds Trust.

We attempted to resolve the situation directly and have continued to advocate for our community.

We have chosen to focus our energy on what we can control: looking after our customers and sellers who want places to buy and sell items from their wardrobes. And continuing to advocate for Mt Gravatt Showgrounds to remain a community owned asset.

We should also acknowledge the stallholders affected by that final event.

At the time, we genuinely believed we had done everything we could to make sure our stallholders coming understood the unusual circumstances surrounding that day.

The ongoing dispute with the Trust had been clearly communicated (we thought) through social media, special conditions on the ticketing page, emails, text messages and videos sent to ticket holders.

Looking back, one of the biggest things we've learned is that when a situation is this unusual and uncertain, there is probably no such thing as over-communicating.

We were on site early that morning and believed that, having been unable to get a response to our communications, we were doing what we could to proceed while the situation remained unresolved. The Trust was also present and, rather than coming to speak with us directly, the situation ultimately escalated through social media and the police.

Whatever our intentions, the result was that stallholders arrived expecting to trade and some were caught up in something they should never have had to navigate.

For that, we are absolute and unreseverdly sorry.

We can't control how other people interpret our decisions, even when we believe we're acting in good faith. What we can control is what we learn from the experience.

If we were faced with a similarly extraordinary situation again, we would look for even more ways to make the circumstances impossible to miss and ensure everyone understood exactly what they were walking into.

Stallholders were 100% offered refunds and contacted directly following the cancellation. If you believe you or anyone you know still have any unresolved issues, please contact us directly at wardrobe.markets@gmail.com.

So where does that leave us?

Still here.

And growing. We have been opening new markets in some fabulous new locations.

We've been welcomed into Red Hill, Indooroopilly and Newstead, while continuing our long-standing Gold Coast market in Tugun.

We're developing new locations, introducing His Wardrobe, creating new opportunities for sellers and continuing to find ways to get more beautiful secondhand clothing into the hands of people who will love it.

Just because our locations have changed, doesn't mean our vision has.

We believe women should have the opportuniy to earn extra income from their wardrobes.

We believe markets create something that online shopping can't replicate: connection, discovery, conversation and community.

We believe in indivudality and creativity. We believe in all the good stuff!

And we believe there is room for many more people to participate in this fashion circular economy.

We don't see another sustainable fashion market as a problem.

We see more people buying secondhand as a good thing.

More clothes circulating is good. More local sellers earning income is good.

More people discovering vintage, designer, preloved and secondhand fashion is good.

More communities coming together is good.

That's the future we want to help build, a really good one.

If you're new here, come and meet us.

You don't have to make up your mind about Her Wardrobe Markets based on something you've read online.

Come to a market. Talk to our sellers and meet our team.

Have a look through the racks. Please bring your friends.

Ask us questions and experience the community for yourself.

We are proud of our history, including our decade at Mt Gravatt and the community who built it.

We are grateful for everyone who helped make those markets what they were.

And we are equally excited about everything that comes next.

To everyone who has continued to support us: thank you.
To everyone who has raised a concern respectully: thank you.

And to those who haven't been so kind: we wish you well too. There’s a wonderful piece of public art in Brisbane that says, “The more I think about it, the bigger it gets.”

We’ve decided to take that as our cue. We’re absolutely thinking bigger: about community, circular fashion, new markets, new ideas and all the good friends we still have yet to meet.

We hope you find something that makes you happy, we'll be over here thrifting and thriving.

And to everyone who simply loves finding something brilliant on a rack that already had a life before it found you...

We'll see you at the next market.

Everyone is welcome.