Skinny ties, black jeans, beatle boots, and other punk/new wave must-haves were up for grabs at Trash and Vaudeville, which has occupied the same St. Mark’s Place address since 1975.
An Ephemeral reader clipped this cool vintage ad out of a March 1980 issue of Trouser Press, a New York-based music magazine. Check out back issues from the 1970s and 1980s.
Tags: 1980s East Village, East Village in the 1970s, East Village vintage clothes, Fashion in the 1980s, punk in the East Village, St. Marks Place, Trash and Vaudeville, Trouser Press, Vintage ads
Ephemeral New York 
May 20, 2010 at 12:28 pm |
That was the place to be in the late 70’s early 80’s. Many a piece of clothing was bought there by me. I got my treasured Beetle Boots and leahters there.
May 20, 2010 at 5:47 pm |
[…] vintage print advertisement for Trash & Vaudeville in the March 1980 issue of Trouser Press [Ephemeral […]
May 21, 2010 at 1:02 am |
That was such a great store back then, with a punk/rockabilly style a la Stray Cats. I purchased several clothes from T&V back then, I remember my favorite, black peg legged jeans with a size 30 waist. NO way I’m ever gonna fit into that again. But I still have a couple of cool retro shirts I wear sometimes.
May 21, 2010 at 12:01 pm |
“around the corner” at antique boutique, I would stop in there and get these great old bowling shirts amazingly cheap. It was way before the “hipsters” took over the look. Ahh, the old days.
May 21, 2010 at 2:17 pm |
Antique Boutique I remember well. They sold those long overcoats and vintage Levis into the 90s.
September 20, 2010 at 6:02 pm |
The store’s longtime manager in those days was a Brit named Scott McFee, who was one of the sweetest men who ever walked the planet.
May 3, 2011 at 9:09 pm |
I remember this very ad from several issues of New York Rocker I hoarded up in the arctic fastness of Toronto back in those days. Finally got to T&V in the mid-80s, by which point all that great retro punk style was well out of fashion, and they’d moved on. Where’s that time machine when you need one…
April 13, 2012 at 4:49 am |
God, T and V, Antique Boutique, Canal St Jeans and Alices’ Underground. I think most of my late 70s early 80s clothes came from those stores along with the flea Markets on Canal st.
November 14, 2012 at 6:51 pm |
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