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Polka Dot Jacket from Warehouse

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With fashion's eternal love of recycling ideas and adding new twists, it should be no surprise that retrospective design is no new thing. The 1980s had a particular fondness for fifties styles, reinterpreting pieces with a unique eighties slant.

This Polka Dot Jacket from Warehouse is really reminiscent of an eighties reimagining of fifties style elements. The 50s polka dot print is used in a simple but structured blazer, with the rolled 3/4 sleeves and hip pockets helping to create that relaxed androgyny of eighties mainstream fashion.

It's available from Warehouse now for £65.

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Categories / Food and Drink, Kids

Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of

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Fancy a pile of sweets themed to a particular era? That's what you get with these Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of.

The idea is simple, get a wooden box, stuff it with all the sweets from back in that particular day, stick on a label based around that decade and fire it off to your favoured sweet lover. Or eat them all yourself, you've paid after all.

Pictured above is the 1980s box, which includes the likes of Anglo Bubbly Bubble Gum, Cherry Lips, Fizzers, Fizzy Cherry Cola Bottles, Kola Kubes, Pear Drops, Rhubarb and Custard, Strawberry Foam Mushrooms, White Mice, the Cadburys Wispa, Candy Sticks, Caramac, Drumsticks, Love Hearts, Sherbet Fountains, Space Dust and Wham Bars in varying quantities. £37.76 is the price of it all.

Find out more at the A Quarter Of website

Categories / Women's Fashion

Designer originals now available from William Vintage

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We all might have our fantasies of finding that rare 60s designer gem in the back rails of a village charity shop, but rarely does such luck come through. For truly well preserved rareities, it's vintage resellers that we have to call upon. William Vintage, now available at Browns, bring some of the more decadent and unusual pieces, with prices that reflect their one off status.

Featuring pieces from the highest end designers like Dior and Pierre Cardin, the stock features original sixties pieces in the sort of truly impeccable condition that can command the often four-figure price tags. Not for the casual vintage lover, these are more pieces of fashion history than Friday night fodder.

Find out more from the Browns website

Categories / Men's Fashion

1980s Adidas Colorado Windbreaker reissue

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Out of the (early) 1980s and back on the shelves, that's the Adidas Colorado Windbreaker.

It's out once more in a new colour, blue for the coming autumnal weather (or summer showers for that matter), with detailing including a contrast front zip, a mesh-lined hood, two side pockets with mesh lining, 3-Stripes down the arms, and a printed Trefoil on the left chest.

Grab it directly from Adidas, £50 gets you one.

Find out more at the Adidas Store website

Categories / Bags, Women's Fashion

Kate Spade Recital Farrah clutch bag

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Any 80s enthusiast will be familiar with the eponymous piano key tie. It wasn't perhaps the most stylish accoutrement of the era but there's always room for improvement.

The Recital Farrah clutch bag from Kate Spade is the essential accessory for any budding key-tar maestro. Just the right size for all your necessities on a night out, the clutch is adorned with patent leather 'keys', 14-karat gold plated hardware and finished off with a lucite bow clasp. Much better. Now will you please get rid of that ridiculous tie.

$375 from Kate Spade. See the website for more details.

Categories / Women's Fashion

Bird Print Jacket from Miss Selfridge

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Tropical style prints, from birds to florals, are most often used to conjure up a fifties style in retro fashion. With just a subtle difference, however, the styling can speak to an entirely different era and aesthetic. This Bird Print Jacket from Miss Selfridge takes its inspiration from a sultry seventies look.

The jacket's flowing fit, with billowing sleeves and a waist-fastening front, helps to create an instant seventies look, with the movement of draped fabric achieving a striking silhouette. The use of ombre pastel shades as a backdrop for the exotic print adds some post-sixties modernity, giving you the option of carrying this item through to an early eighties wardrobe too.

It's available from Miss Selfridge for £40.

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