2007 has definitely been the year of the shopping bag, started, of course, by the Anya Hindmarsh ‘I’m Not a Plastic Bag’ craze in the spring. Since then most supermarkets have introduced their own eco alternative to the plastic carrier. Marks and Spencer are currently selling several designs including the Twiggy Eco Shopper.
Made from organic cotton, the bag features a portrait of the iconic model (as she was back in the Sixties, not as recently seen in M&S adverts) by the fashion illustrator David Downton.
Priced £2.50, you can pick one up near the checkout of most Marks and Spencer stores or buy one online at their website.
Labour and Wait specialise in old fashioned, high quality practical products, the stuff that it is increasingly difficult to find on the high street. Amongst the brushes, twine and string that makes up much of their stock, we found these rather lovely Moose Firelighters. 
This isn’t a piece of chipped china picked up in a charity shop for a few pence, but another retro design from Ella Doran. 
The Uten Silo Wall Tidy was designed by Dorothee Becker and first released in 1969. One of the best known plastic designs of the 1960s, it has been now been re-released by Vitra. 
Possibly VW Beetles, possibly Citroens, maybe even Skodas, the set of Children’s Car Lights is made up of colourful retro cars. 
You may be stuck with an anonymous mass-produced modern bath because it just isn’t viable to have a stylish Victorian one, but perhaps you could hang a picture of one in your bathroom instead. 
