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New vintage shop opens its doors in York

New vintage shop opens its doors in York

A NEW shop has opened in York offering one-of-a-kind clothes, jewellery and accessories.

Vault Seven, a new vintage shop selling clothing, jewellery, vintage toys, and books has opened in Lendal – just in time for Christmas.

Business partners Sammy Clews, 25, and Betsy Vaca, 25, opened the doors to their shop last Thursday (December 12) after signing up for the site just over a week before that.


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Having previously owned a kilo sale business, selling vintage clothes by weight at universities across the country, Sammy made the decision to open in York after seeing a gap in the market compared to other cities around the region and was keen to get in ahead of the festive period.

He said: “Coming from Wetherby, I’ve seen that Leeds is absolutely full of vintage shops. I have a friend who tried to open one in Harrogate and that didn’t go so well so I thought York has a few, it would be nice to try and open a shop here.”

Some of the clothes on offer in Vault Seven (Image: Alice Kavanagh) Located in the former Jack Wolfskin building at 11 Lendal, the shop primarily sells a variety of different vintage clothes and accessories with a huge collection of jeans, joggers, vintage Harley Davidson t-shirts, and hats currently on display in the shop – but plans to expand into vinyl, trinkets, and home items.

The name – Vault Seven – came about after the team wanted to create the feel of a ‘real treasure trove of things to come and see’ without limiting themselves to just vintage clothes.

Jackets in Vault Seven (Image: Alice Kavanagh) Betsy explained: “As time goes on, we’ll be looking to acquire a collection of vintage trinkets and trinkets to showcase in the shop so we didn’t want to limit ourselves to just selling apparel, jewellery and books.

“Seven is a lucky number, and both mine and Sammy’s birthday, and we wanted to try to keep in line with the history to the street, with The Old Bank, The Old Post Office, and we thought a vault fitted in quite nicely.”

Vault Seven is open in partnership with Betsy’s businesses, The Craft by Betsy – which will be selling crystal jewellery, prints, and bookmarks and The Nook Club.

The Nook Club’s nook – with different genres of blind date with a book (Image: Alice Kavanagh) The latter specialises in blind date with a book: a concept where a novel is wrapped in brown paper with a short description, forcing a potential reader into not judging a book by its cover and taking a chance on something new.

For more information, the shop can be found at @vaultsevenyork and will be open 10am-6pm every day up until Christmas and again from December 28.

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