What else is there to say about The Beatles? Everyone loves them, and rightly so, and they’re still given the creedance of cool they deserve.
There’s tons of Beatles memorabilia out there, but that doesn’t stop me fawning over certain items like this Sgt Pepper’s Tin Lunchbox.
From Kitsch.com, this drum-styled tin retails at a bargain price of £9.95, along with a variety of Fabs fodder.
Paul Smith is back with another novelty bag – the time the 80s-style Ghetto Blaster bag.
This large weekend bag has chocolate leather trims, an adjustable shoulder strap, one large area and two smaller internal pockets, along with a concealed external pocket. But the selling point is that design, a detailed take on the now obsolete ghetto blaster.
It’s sized at 28 x 40 x 12cm and retails for £190.
Find out more at the Paul Smith website
Retro To Go favourite People Will Always Need Plates has a range of merchandise available featuring the iconic De La Warr Pavilion – only available from the Pavilion itself.
If you didn’t know, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill On Sea was commissioned by the Earl De La Warr in 1935 and designed by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff – the UK‘s first public building built in the Modernist style. It’s recently undergone renovation, returning the building to its former glory. And the merchandise on offer celebrates this event.
The tea towel (retailing for £7.95) is pictured above, but there’s also a limited edition plate (£25), mugs in a choice of colours (£9.99 each), a canvas tote bag (£14.50) and at the bottom of the price scale, badges at £1 each. You can buy them from the Pavilion or you can contact the Pavilion’s shop for mail order.
The sales are coming to an end, but there’s still a few bargains to be had – especially online. And one of them is this Puma Originals Grip bag.
Puma raided the archives heavily in 2007, with this Grip bag offered in various colours. It’s an old-school holdall – indeed it’s like the ones many of us took to school before the curse of the ruck sack took over. There’s a two-way zip opening, main compartment, side storage, metal studs and the Puma vintage logo.
And right now it’s marked down at the Puma store in a choice of colours to £30.
Find out more at the Puma website
Art Disco obviously loves the Nintendo NES – they have a range of items revolving around the retro console, including this rather eye-catching NES tote bag.
The image says it all really – a canvas tote bag in black with a blue (and small amount of red) design, featuring the controllers and leads.
And the best part of all is the price – it’s currently sitting in the sale section, priced at just £5.
Find out more at the Art Disco website
Apparently, if you fly first class with British Airways, you get one of these Anya Hindmarch Concorde washbags for free. But for us mere mortals, you can also buy them online from BA.
Created exclusively for BA by Anya Hindmarch, each of the bags features a vintage image of Concorde and is made of nylon and canvas, with a full lining and chrome zip.
And best of all, both are now massively discounted. The small washbag was selling for £55, but is now down to £19.80, with the larger bag previously at £65, now also selling for £19.80.
