This post was updated on November 19, 2024.
Small Business Saturday is back, and while local shopping districts are promoting festive events and in-store promotions—the Georgetown BID, for example, has more than 25 shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses offering specials this year—you can shop local for Small Business Saturday online as well. Here are more than 39 DC-area small businesses you can shop in-store or without leaving your home.
Fashion and Accessories
Bitter Grace
A Capitol Hill boutique offering lines of cashmere, athleisure, jewelry, leather goods, and more with a focus on sustainability.
Boathouse Apparel
A preppy, lake-life-inspired shop in Georgetown offering apparel and accessories for men, women, and children–including a “tailgate” line for game-day merch–plus home goods and gifts.
Current Boutique
A high-end consignment shop featuring designer and other pre-loved women’s clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories, with locations in Clarendon, Old Town Alexandria, and 14th Street.
Definition Studio
An ethically-sourced jewelry, vintage leather, clothing, and home decor store—started by a University of Maryland alumna, inspired by her Istanbul roots—at Union Market.
Ella Rue
Current ready-to-wear new women’s clothing and luxury pre-owned consignment in Georgetown.
Fangyán
A pop-up-turned-retail-shop in Georgetown that carries clothing from 15 Chinese designers plus its own line of cashmere and silk.
Hobo
A leather-goods brand offering handbags, wallets, and accessories that began in Annapolis and recently opened a shop in Georgetown.
The Phoenix
A 65-year-old Georgetown shop offering a high-end, sustainably made selection of clothing, home goods, and both costume and fine jewelry.
Reddz Trading
A high-end consignment shop of men’s and women’s clothing and accessories with locations in Bethesda and Georgetown.
Secondi
Designer women’s clothing and accessories consignment in Dupont Circle.
Shelter
Jewelry designer Mallory Shelter’s shop of jewelry—including wedding and engagement pieces—clothing, and more. The store features more than 100 independent designers near Gallaudet University in DC.
The Shoe Hive
High-end clothing, shoes, and accessories (think Sam Edelman, Ulla Johnson, Veronica Bear, Agolde, etc.) for women in Old Town Alexandria.
Tuckernuck
Classic American (read: preppy) men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, and home goods in Georgetown.
Wylie Grey
High-end women’s clothing and accessories (including brands like the Perfect Moment, Ulla Johnson, and LoveShackFancy) in Bethesda.
Home Goods
GoodWood
One-off furniture, textiles, and other home goods plus some women’s clothing on U Street.
Handmade Habitat
Locally made candles of all-natural soy wax and beauty goods, designed for “slow, mindful living,” in Brookland.
Red Barn Mercantile
Home goods including seasonal and other home decor, kitchen tools, tabletop accessories, cookbooks, paper goods, gifts, and more.
Rewild
A destination for green thumbs, plant parents, and rare plant collectors with four area locations: Shaw, Arlington, Capitol Hill, and Cabin John, Maryland.
Salt and Sundry
A “home and lifestyle” boutique with gifts, candles, soaps, tabletop and other accessories, paper goods, home goods, and more, with locations in Union Market and Logan Circle.
Gifts and Other Fun Stuff
Appointed
A high-end paper goods shop in Ivy City featuring popular journals, calendars, planners, an more.
The Capital Candy Jar
Candy, chocolate-covered Oreos and pretzels, popcorn, and more in Capitol Hill.
Chocolate
Chocolate Chocolate, Craving for Chocolate, and several other local chocolate shops worth shopping this holiday season, with dozens of sweet offerings.
Each Peach Market
Groceries and unique food-related gifts in Mount Pleasant.
Books
East City Bookshop, Harambee Books and Artworks, Kramers, Loyalty Bookstore, Mahogany Books, Old Town Books, and several other local, independent bookstores.
Penny Post
An independent cards, stationery, paper goods, and gift store in Alexandria.
Scout
A “casual lifestyle” brand offering an assortment of bags, from tote bags and insulated cooler bags to makeup bags and card holders.
Shop Made in DC
More than 5,000 products—apparel, jewelry, home goods, art, beauty products, gifts, and more—from hundreds of DC makers, with locations in Georgetown, Union Market, the Wharf and Canopy Embassy Row.
Shop Made in Virginia
More than 500 products—apparel, jewelry, home goods, art, beauty products, gifts, and more— from more than 300 Virginia makers, in Old Town Alexandria.
Steadfast Supply
A gift shop with products from more than 100 independent makers and designers.
Take Care
A Georgetown spa with a retail shop of small batch and natural skincare, beauty and bodycare products.
Three Littles
A children’s store near Union Market that focuses on sustainably made toys and high-end baby/kid gear, with an expansive list of in-stock strollers at its “Stroller Shoppe.”
Amy leads Washingtonian Weddings and writes Style Setters for Washingtonian. Prior to joining Washingtonian in March 2016, she was the editor of Capitol File magazine in DC and before that, editor of What’s Up? Weddings in Annapolis.
