Mad4Mod Vintage

The new High St location is fantastic! You have to check it out!
The store offers an expertly curated collection of clothes, accessories and furniture from every era. The shop only sales actual vintage. Most items are labeled with the decades they are from — making each find a diamond. The shop is well organized so you can find exactly what your looking for quickly or, like me, have fun browsing for hours.
The staff has a genuine love of all things vintage. Their excitement and love of each item is completely contagious. Along with being vintage pros they are up to date on runway fashions — making them the perfect source for you Mad Men fashion cravings!
I gave into my wool skirt addiction. I bought the most amazing navy hand embroidered wool skirt and a burgundy red wool pencil skirt.
Mad 4 Mod is definitely my new High St. vintage destination.

I’m confused why this shop is listed in the Worthington neighborhood? It’s definitely in Clintonville. Anywho.
I love vintage shops. I really, REALLY like this store. I just have never found anything that I’ve been looking for. The ambiance is magical. The staff are neither overbearing nor rude. They are also not more-​indie-​cool than-​thou like some of the other shops in the area (R — -O — –R — — ). That’s right, I said that. Moving on.
Maybe I just came at the wrong time to look for clothes (post holiday shopping season, pre new years eve). Everything I looked for I struck out in, (a vintage hat that wasn’t too small for my head, yikes; a 40s/​50s ish polka dot dress, and cocktail rings). I guess those are kind of random items but I thought I would have better luck here. I will definitely be back sometime though. I had a blast just looking around in here.

Mad 4 Mod is not your typical vintage clothing store — which in this case is a very very good thing!
There are no crazy cat ladies and no piles of old dirty gloves that smell of mothballs and meatloaf. Mad 4 Mod is ORGANIZED, CLEAN, has SIZES. The staff are FRIENDLY. What a concept!
I am a lifelong vintage clothes fanatic, so I know I good shop when I see it. When buying a graduation dress last summer that didn’t quite fit, I was cheerfully told that if I would leave it overnight, a talented employee could shorten the straps for no extra charge.
I’ve been back many times and I have donated a few items as well. Every experience has been a delight. While its true that most of the clothing here is «mod» 1960’s style, they actually have a wide range of styles.
Without a second thought, I would recommend Mad 4 Mod to anyone looking for vintage in Columbus.

This place is a phenomenal destination for people like yours truly who have watched one too many episodes of Mad Men and want to take it to the next level.
I recently got invited to a wedding back home and instead of wanting to deal with retail stores, I decided that I wanted to go vintage. Perhaps I wanted to subconsciously go back to a time where people actually made clothes for real women. There were dresses it seemed anywhere from the 1920s — 1990s. They just had about any sort of pre-​1990s style that you could have possibly been looking for.
The first thing you’ll notice is the racks and racks of clothes. It’s so large that it spans two rooms. Also, one more thing you’ll notice, it how neat, clean and organized the place is. One of the employees greeted me immediately and began to help me find a dress to wear.
She was so sweet and professional and brought me dress after dress to try on for this wedding. Also, never having been to an October wedding before, she was great with suggestions and my questions consisting of «Is it too early to start wearing Velvet? and «What is the cut off for ‘wedding black’ and ‘funeral black’?» She also said that she could and would make any and all alterations with the dresses if I purchased them.
Best part? Sometimes you end up paying a steep price for vintage, however, all of the dresses I tried on were $ 50 and under.
Sadly, I didn’t feel comfortable in any of the dresses (I seriously spent an hour in there). I was so sorry to walk out of there without making a purchase. I really appreciated all of their help and understanding with trying to find an outfit despite the outcome. However, there is a definite chance or a return due to excellent service, low prices, and unique finds.

I like this store a lot, even though the aviator sunglasses I bought here for $ 5 (or something) were an unwise choice (they were all bent and loose and they sit on my face all crooked-​like), I had a lot of fun looking at all the old vintage mod wear. I’d still like to have a brown leather bomber.

This place totally rocks. A little annoyed with the double rack thing which puts many things out of the reach of short people (like me) but I managed. ;-) Theresa was super helpful and very friendly. Prices were reasonable and everything looked spotless. I must have spent at least 20 minutes just in the doorway ogling the purses.. .

This place is an amazing fashion resource for Columbus and the owners and employees are incredibly sweet people. Everything is so well organized and in great condition, hung on proper wooden hangers, which makes it such a pleasure to shop here. I have bought some wonderful things at Mad 4 Mod: A camisole out of authentic Guipure lace, a silk velvet jacket, and lingerie style bloomers from the 40’s or 50’s. Most vintage stores tend to only carry stuff from the sixties or later but this place has some great items from the 20’s and earlier. It’s an awesome place for accessories too. They have a great selection of hats, gloves, and jewelry. And the pricing is reasonable for the excellent quality and condition of the garments.
This is their myspace page if you want to see clearer photos:

I was pleasantly surprised with this shop. It is packed with a great selection of 40s, 50s, 60, and some 70s vintage clothing in excellent condition. I would suggest coming here if you are looking for something beautiful to invest in (though the prices are very reasonable for vintage, while they may seem expensive for Ohio). There is also a selection of men’s and furniture. My only suggestion would be for the owners to edit out some of the items — some of the racks are so packed that it is hard to pick through the merchandise.

I stopped into Cornerstone Café next door for a bite to eat, and noticed the Mad 4 Mod sign as I sat eating my lunch. I walked into Mad 4 Mod with zero expectations. My first thought was, «Jesus, this would be an awesome vintage store if I was a girl.» The place was lined with dresses that would make even the most homely girl look like a badass. I found an entrance to another room, more badass dresses, and in the back, badass clothes/​shoes for men. The walls are bleeding with great vintage clothes. That was cool enough. But then I walked in the next room. It looks like the set for 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you haven’t seen that flick, go to Mad 4 Mad and imagine one of the giant orbs is a robot that has emotional problems. If you have $ 5,000 and want to do up your bachelor pad with with a wall-​to– wall ultra-​retro futuristic space theme, Mad 4 Mod is the spot to shop.

Unlike Rag O Rama, the hipster-​oriented mecca across the street from this place, Mad 4 Mod goes above and beyond to give you access to fashions and items that are truly vintage in every sense of the word. Whether it’s a pair of cowboy boots straight out of a Clint Eastwood movie or an orange vinyl couch, Mad 4 Mod’s got you covered. There seems to be an abundance of options when it comes to retro shopping in this little Clintonville shopping area, but the combination or price, selection, and staff makes this store my go-​to destination for kitschy goods from forgotten eras. My favorite thing that I found here was a belt buckle with a super-​serious picture of Jesus on it– the kind a Latino family would have in a picture frame over their kitchen sink, if that helps you bring a better mental image to mind. At a paltry $ 15, this thing was a steal! If only I could find a better belt to wear it on, I’d never take the thing off. Talk about irony!
Like Flower Child and Boomerang, a lot of the items here are way out of my price range. I certainly do appreciate the lengths to which the guy that runs this place has gone to get authentic furnishings and accessories from as far back as the ‘40s, but until I find a job that doesn’t involve punching a time clock every day, I’ll have to limit my purchases here to the modestly priced shirts and belt buckles.

This not-​so-​little shop in Clintonville boasts an array (and I mean array) of vintage goods.
Furniture: It’s mainly stuff from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Trendy tables and cool-​meets-​ugly couches are what you can expect. Some of it seems re-​purposed.
Fashion: They have lots of clothes (again from the ‘50s-‘70s). They stock jewelry and other accessories as well as an impressive selection of shoes. As with most vintage stores, larger-​size availability is an issue.
Miscellany: They stock various household items. They also have a reasonable vintage fabric selection.
The employees are super-​friendly and helpful. The building probably isn’t the best for claustrophobic folks. It’s a tight squeeze throughout. Oh, and watch out for the precarious stairs to the basement. Check this place out when you’re in Clintonville.