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10 of the best 1970s-style watches

10 of the best 1970s-style watches

Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Next apple storage set

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Here are more goodies from Next who have come up trumps in their latest kitchen collection. Following on from the apple memo board featured earlier in the week, here's a similarly fruity storage set. The five piece set has containers for keeping all your kitchen essentials, from bread to biscuits. Each has a white finish with a repeated apple motif and a red lid to match the plain lettering. The simple design means the set could fit easily into a retro-inspired kitchen. 

The set costs £32. 

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Categories / Homeware

Bradbury & Bradbury wallpapers

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Looking for a specific period look for your home? Bradbury & Bradbury's range of art wallpapers could be worth a look. They've a wide selection of historically inspired wallpapers from which the above 'Atomic Doodle' design is taken. It's obviously a fifties inspired look, one taken from the group of designs they've called 'The Atomic Age'. They also sell other twentieth-century inspired designs under the categories Art Deco, Post-War Era and 'The Mod Generation'. 

The papers are hand printed and generally come in a range of colours. Atomic Doodle, for example, comes in taupe and pink as well as the turquoise shown here. This wallpaper costs $72 per roll, but prices vary depending on the design.

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Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

Edith Reader Glasses from Fred Flare

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For glasses wearers there's no accessory more worth getting just right, given its permanence in your wardrobe. For retro devotees there's becoming an increasing level of choice in frames, and they're suitable for every bank account.

These Edith Reader Glasses from Fred Flare have an unmistakeable vintage chic thanks to their sixties look frames. The rounded shape combines with a slight cat ear and straight cut edges to pack some real retro punch. Finished off in a mock tortoiseshell, this is a pair worth paying to fit your needs.

Get them online from Fred Flare for just $11.

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Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

Wool Quilted Mini Dress by Opening Ceremony

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While a lot of the 80s reproduction fashions on the market at the moment represent the most modern fashions of the time, there are some of the less mainstream looks of the decade available too. This Wool Quilted Mini Dress by Opening Ceremony is a great example of the era's take on fifties design points, a popular designer trick.

Taking a quintessential fifties dress shape, complete with sweetheart neckline and circle skirt, it adds some definitely 80s influenced style points. The structured cups at the bust, along with the quilted fabric, add that late 20th century modernity that makes this dress a lot less ordinary.

It's available online from Browns for £505.

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Categories / Retro Men's Fashion, Sportswear

Patrick Heritage range 1970s Marathon trainers

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Big thanks to Doug for pointing out that old school sportswear label Patrick is re-introducing some classics from its past, which includes these Patrick Marathon trainers.

Dating back to 1978 and reissued in period colours, these long distance running shoes come with a patented all-terrain Patrick sole, a Terrycloth lining for absorption, a lightweight upper, suede reinforcement and shock absorbing wedge. Just as tasty for a walk down the pub too.

Available directly from Patrick, priced around 80 Euros.

Find out more at the Patrick Heritage website

Categories / Homeware

Question Mark Chair

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The Question Mark Chair, with its unusual shape and descriptive name, could easily be mistaken for a classic design by the likes of Jacobsen, Aarnio or Paulin, but it is a new design by Stefan Heiliger.

The chair has already won a plethora of awards so could easily become a design classic of the future, but for now, I think it would make a good addition to any retro dining room. The seat swivels 360 degrees and is available in a huge choice of coloured leathers, although the smart choice would always be the white option.

The Question Mark Chair is available to buy form Mac and Mac Interiors priced £1,580.