Where to Buy Paper Planes in Miami

Three shops in Miami-Dade carry Paper Planes: Shoe Gallery downtown on NE 1st Avenue, All Star 119 on NW 119th Street, and Sneakertown south on Dixie Highway in Palmetto Bay.

In this climate the useful asks are bucket hats and truckers, unstructured, mesh-backed, built for heat rather than in spite of it. The Original Crown, the founding 9Fifty, is the year-round piece and the one most likely to be in stock anywhere.

Then the practical problem: these three are further apart than in any other city on this list. End to end is about twenty-five miles, which in Miami traffic is most of an afternoon. This is a pick-one city, and picking wrong costs you real time.

Shoe Gallery is the one visitors should know. It has been part of the Miami sneaker landscape long enough to be a destination in its own right rather than a shop that happens to carry the brand, and downtown is easy from the beach or the airport. It closes at 5, earlier than the other two, and the single most useful thing on this page if you were planning an evening.

All Star 119 takes its name from the street it trades on. That tells you exactly what it is: a neighbourhood shop serving its neighbourhood.

Sneakertown covers the deep south of the county, past Kendall where retail thins right out and a properly stocked shop is worth the drive. Open until 8.

None of the three carries the full range.