You can still find good fabric, but you usually find the best now in online stores, where you can’t really feel it and be sure of the color.
There just aren’t enough women sewing anymore to make quality fabric stores viable in brick-and-mortar form. The ones doing well seem to be quilting supply stores.
In DC, we had G Street Fabrics for years (which I recall as G Street Remnant), but it eventually moved out to Rockville, in Maryland. At least the last time I was there about 10 years ago, it was still a fabulous place; but there aren’t many like it left.
People say go to the garment district and buy fabric there.
I’m not a good enough sewer to spend a lot on fabric though.
I definitely have a problem buying fabric I’ve never laid eyes or hands on!
We don’t have any fabric stores at all left in our town since Hancock went out of business.
We live about 30 miles east of San Francisco so we’re not exactly BFE here.
You’d think we could support a fabric store but we can’t keep a bookstore afloat either.
I guess if people won’t read they can’t sew either because sewing involves reading of instructions.
I quilt and built up a fair stash just buying bags of fabric at the thrift store.
If I want to make clothes I’m going to have to drive a ways to find fabric.