Flea Style – previously dubbed The Dallas Flea – was founded in 2009 by Brittany Cobb. The former lifestyle editor fostered a deep love for vintage and unique goods as a writer and as a child combing local markets and antique malls with her mom in Southern California.

“My mom had a stall at a local antique mall and I loved to wander the aisles in search of treasures while she decorated her booth,” says Cobb.

In 2001, Cobb moved to Dallas to attend Southern Methodist University. Post graduation, the journalism major spent ten years writing lifestyle articles for The Dallas Morning News, Forbes, Lucky and DailyCandy.

“Writing articles about fashion and home decor only deepened my love for unique style,” says Cobb. “Any free time I had between interviews and penning stories was spent shopping far flung locations from Mexico to tiny town antique malls.”

This led her to launch The Dallas Flea – a quarterly pop up shopping event featuring a wide range of vendors – in 2009. In 2015, she rebranded the concept as Flea Style to span to other Texas cities and enter e-commerce to sell her curated goods and makers’ finds to the brand’s growing audience.

In 2018, Flea Style renovated a historical 5,000 square foot building in downtown Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood to house a retail store, event studio and its corporate headquarters that includes its shipping and distribution departments.

In 2019, Cobb opened a second retail location in Frisco at the Dallas Cowboys’ world headquarters at The Star. Inside the 6,300 square foot space she started her first culinary venture dubbed Heirloom Haul, a delicious eatery that specializes in tea service, sandwiches, salads and specialty sips and lattes.

Heirloom Haul is inspired by the scratch-made food found in antique malls that Cobb frequented as a child. This adorable spot not only provides an Instagram-worthy latte during a shopping trip, but has become a popular destination for brunch, celebrations, and mom-daughter dates.

In 2021 Cobb was approached to create a concept store in the Hotel Drover, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel located at the famous Fort Worth Stockyards’ booming Mule Alley shopping district. In July, Cobb opened Wide Brim, a highly-curated hotel lobby store that offers apparel, jewelry, accessories and hats for the wanderlust.

In October 2021, the company opened a 3,300 square foot store along with a Heirloom Haul beverage bar and Flea Style’s signature hat bar. In 2022, Flea Style entered the mall landscape with a beautiful 3,500 square foot space in the beloved Galleria Dallas in the heart of DFW.

The hat bar concept, now located in all four retail locations, offers stylish hats and unique accents for shoppers to create one-of-a-kind looks that fit their personal style. The Flea Style hat bar experiences have become so popular that the brand has its own hat line in addition to the custom "Brittany" wide brim hat with iconic American hat brand Stetson in a myriad of bespoke colors.

Flea Style is expanding with multiple new stores. In 2023, the brand opened its first out-of-state location in Louisville, Kentucky inside the Omni Hotel. Last fall, Flea Style reimagined their Deep Ellum buildings to house a 7,000 headquarters and distribution center and moved their flagship store to downtown’s famous Dallas Farmer's Market. 

In 2023, Flea Style got mobile with a roaming hat bar and boutique inside a stunning 20' box truck. The pop up retail experience is available for private and public events that desire Flea Style's popular hat bar at their home, office or special occasion.

In spring 2024, Flea Style welcomed its second out-of-state store in Nashville's famous 12 South neighborhood. That summer, they opened a store in Prosper, Texas that includes an Heirloom Haul cafe inside.

Flea Style continues to push the envelope with new experiential retail and lifestyle concepts while celebrating small businesses and unique style. Cobb resides in Dallas with her daughter, son and beloved rescue pup Bowie.