It’s not easy carrying off a retro look on the beach or by the pool – but these Hartford swimming shorts could help.
Saying that, it would take a brave soul to carry these off. Available in a range of brightly coloured 70s-style designs, they have contrast stitching, side pockets, a velcro-fasteing back pocket, mesh lining and a drawstring waist.
If you want to make a splash this summer, they retail for £64.99.
Discoo has bagged a UK exclusive on the 80th anniversary Pan Am collection of bags, including some very limited edition pieces – like the Pan Am 1950s Hawaiian vanity cases.
These are exact replicas of the original cases given to Pan Am’s first class passengers in the 1950s, featuring artwork by US artist Norman Rockwell. As you can see, they are made from a cream leather with bold red and orange interior, with some super-cool detailing, not least those Pan Am fasteners.
Quantities are so limited, Discoo is only offering these as pre-order. So if you want one, get your name down via the website. They retail for £125.
There’s something very stylish about the covers of vintage pulp fiction, but the contents rarely live up to the promise. That’s something you can change with the Sassier Than Fiction journals.
The covers are reproductions of vintage pulp paperbacks, but the insides are not. That’s a journal, with 160 lined pages and a few saucy quotes. If you want to sauce it up a bit more, then it’s down to you to fill those blank pages. Who knows…you could have a future cult classic on your hands?
Both the sleeves here are available, retailing for $11.99 each, which is around £6.
Never mind football cards, how about trading Legends Of Rap collectors cards?
It’s an illustrated history of hip hop by Florian Braun, ignoring all the new faces of rap, keeping it very much old school. The 32 full-colour illustrated cards include portraits, biographical stories and selected discographical data of each featured artist. There’s also a fold-out poster of Grand Mixer D.S.T. and an extra card showing all the artists.
Which artists? Well there’s…Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Whodini, Busy Bee, Kool DJ Red Alert (is the great man), Fab 5 Freddy, The Treacherous Three, Kool DJ Herc, Doug E Fresh, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Double Trouble, Fantastic 5, LL Cool J, Roxanne Shante, Grand Wizard Theodore, Afrika Bambaataa, Crash Crew, Kurtis Blow, Bobby Robinson, The Beastie Boys, Cold Crush Brothers, The Sugar Hill Gang, The Sequence, The Fearless Four, Funky Four Plus One, The Fat Boys, Run DMC, Spoonie G, DJ Hollywood, Rick Rubin + Russell Simmons and Sylvia Robinson.
Yours for £25.
We’re talking serious attention to detail here – not content with creating coasters shaped like the more common 3.5-inch floppy disks, Supermandolini has gone back even further in time, producing a coaster range including 5.25-inch diskettes.
Yes, we’re in the land of 70s computing with the Soft Sector coasters. But this isn’t just an exercise in geek, it’s really sharp design, with each 9cm x 9cm coaster having its own colourful and individual glossy finish, with a foam base to keep your drink secure.
You can buy a set of six online, priced at 27 Euros.
Find out more at the Supermandolini website
Pioneering Japanese designer Riki Watanabe is best-known for his work in the 60s – but amazingly, we designed the Riki Watanabe Clock for Lemnos when he was 92 years old.
And that influenced the design, with the numbers intended to be visible for anyone with poor vision or looking from a distance. And just to add to that attention to detail, the frame is actually made by skilled tambourine workmen.
Stylish simplicity and a great retro-styled design, it’s sized at 12.2cm x 7.2cm and available in a gift box from French retailer Colette, priced at 85 Euros.
Find out more at the Colette website
