Original silkscreened shopping bag from '60s Greenwich Village hipster boutique The Shed House, emblazoned with the motto "Our Sweaters Have No Sex."
Very good plus.
Price: $250.00
"[Jimi Hendrix] asked me where I was working and I told him the Shed House, which was this hip little clothing store in the village. [...] Well, the next afternoon sure enough he was sitting in front of the store in his baby blue corvette." – Stephen Shady
Established in the early 1960s, the Shed House quickly rose to prominence as one of several Village menswear retailers with a camp sensibility and a strong appeal to gay and/or fashion-forward consumers. By 1965, its trousers merited a mention in VOGUE, and around the same time, it made a formative impression on the young Robert Stock, who later helped launch Ralph Lauren's Chaps line. By the decade's end, the Shed House was a counterculture emporium listed in the Saturday Evening Post as a source for partakers in the "costume revolution," offering "all kinds of shirts and pants, and men's wigs and mustaches."
The store also offered employment to two members of the proto-punk glam-rock band Shady Lady, as well as — at least once — a hangout spot for Jimi Hendrix: "Somebody in the store recognized him and said hey that's [Jimi] Hendrix parked outside. I was waiting on a customer and glanced out the window and said yea it's Hendrix, he's waitin' for me I guess. I knew the others in the store prolly thought I was joking. So, after I finished up with my customer I went out and sat in the 'vette with him" (Shady).
Read more: "Jimi Hendrix Recollection from Stephen Shady," hollywoodhangover.com; "The Great Costume Put-On," Saturday Evening Post; "Taking Stock: A Survey of Robert Stock's Career," WWD.
(New York): (The Shed House), [circa 1960s]. 18.5'' x 15''. Original printed brown paper bag, silkscreened in black. Moderate creasing, folded in quarters.
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