It's a Wrap!

Look to your left for It's a Wrap — and here's where Magnolia Park's real economy comes into view. This is a resale store, but it doesn't sell donated clothes. It sells wardrobe and props pulled straight off the sets and out of the wardrobe departments of working movie and television studios. The neighborhood grew up in the shadow of Warner Bros., Disney, and the old studio ranches, and this shop is what happens to a costume after the cameras stop rolling.

Think about the scale of a studio production. A single show dresses dozens of actors across dozens of scenes, then wraps — and all that wardrobe has to go somewhere. Much of it comes here. The store bills itself as the only place where the general public can buy genuine screen-used wardrobe and props, and many garments still carry the production's tags, so you can trace a jacket back to a specific show. Shoppers have found pieces from productions filmed right here in Burbank, and actors themselves come in hunting for on-set memorabilia.

That's the thread to pull on this whole street. The vintage boom, the oddity shops, the prop stores you'll pass — they all feed on the film industry two miles away. In fact, the soundstages where a lot of this wardrobe was worn are close enough to visit: the Warner Bros. lot on Warner Boulevard runs public studio tours, and the racks in front of you are the afterlife of exactly that kind of production.

So as you browse, read the tags. That evening gown or police uniform isn't a costume-shop copy — it's the real thing, worn under real lights on a real set. New stock arrives from the studios almost daily, so no two visits look alike. When you've had your fill, we'll keep heading west toward the strange and wonderful heart of the strip.