Any shops you absolutely love?
Carrie: "Gimme Shoes in Hayes Valley. I love that there are two right across the street from each other. They both are pretty amazing."

In one of the Portlandia skits Carrie shows up looking a little "too San Francisco" — is there such a thing as being too San Francisco?
Fred: "I think we picked S.F. so we could point out that Portland was a certain way, and wanted to juxtapose it against another city. We wanted to do it with Seattle but couldn’t really figure out what Seattle would be. However, San Francisco has a much older, and a much more rooted feeling in that kind of lifestyle. Everything that Portland is I think existed in San Francisco in the ’60s. We just wanted to find something that was established that people would recognize right away. So, it’s just something that we can identify as alternative."

Loads of pretty shoes perched on shelves at Gimme Shoes. Photographed by Christine Ting