Old-school signs in the Garment District

The West 30s and 40s are a gold mine of faded and forgotten store signage. “Petite Button” is still open for business off of Sixth Avenue, selling buttons and buckles:

This sign, for the long-shuttered “All Wool Clothes” on Eighth Avenue, only became visible when a contemporary store went out of business and took that sign with them. The typeface looks very 1940s:

Tags: Garment district, Old store signs, Vintage signs

This entry was posted on November 3, 2008 at 2:18 am and is filed under Fashion and shopping, Midtown, Random signage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Old-school signs in the Garment District”

Ricky Says:
November 3, 2008 at 4:26 am | Reply
I use to go to Petite Button all the time. They make you covered buttons from your own fabric, in any size, right on the spot!
Reference Says:
November 19, 2008 at 11:45 pm | Reply
Your blog is terrific!

Here is the url of the blog from the Archives of the Sandusky Library,
if you would like to take a look:

http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com

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