Where to Buy Paper Planes in Philadelphia Metro

Two shops around Philadelphia carry Paper Planes: Platinum on South Street in the city, and Free Press twenty miles north-west in King of Prussia.

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The two shops could not sit in more different worlds. Platinum is on South Street, which has carried independent retail for decades and is still the most obvious place in Philadelphia for a streetwear shop to be, close enough to Queen Village and Society Hill to catch foot traffic all week rather than only on Saturdays. It opens at 11. (215) 599-7528.

Free Press is inside one of the largest malls in the country. Street-level independent against mall unit changes who walks in and what they came for. Want the browse-and-find-something afternoon? South Street. Want the trip to cover everything else on your list? King of Prussia.

Worth saying clearly: the shop in Allentown is not part of this market. There is a Paper Planes stockist there, but it is fifty miles north in the Lehigh Valley, a different city with its own gravity, listed on the Pennsylvania page.

Free Press keeps its own schedule; call for today's hours.