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Wild for Kicks: The Beat Girl (Part II)
Beat Girl title card, image via Imageshack Some of you readers may remember a post I wrote back in November about ‘Beat Girl’, a 60′s teensploitation film. It has everything: Christopher Lee as a...
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Kinda Sorta Love…
>…The Eurovision, which for one night only turns everything the most amazing shade of camp. This is the Serbian entry Nina, who sang… er, I have no idea. In my mind, it sounds a bit like this....
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Related #2: What’s Your Time Period?
If I had to pick a time period, I’d pick the 60′s and be a mod. Typical of people who always want that they can’t have, I don’t have the legs for micro minis and am deathly afraid of scooters (or any...
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Licentiate Column 06/10/11: We Are The Mods
It’s all about the sixties this season. Sharp lines, unisex tailoring, retro-futuristic metallics and insouciant glares. Summer of love this isn’t. A discordant chant of ‘We are the Mods’ subliminally...
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Aaron Ruell and The Madonna Inn: How great is this?
This isn’t an interiors blog, but the kitscharama of the Madonna Inn in Luis San Obispo, California, which has preserved it’s very Flintstones/Jetsons vibe since the sixties, needs to be shared. The...
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Inspiration: Pauline Boty
Do you ever read something interesting that sticks in your mind and suddenly pops up everywhere you look? Photo by Lewis Morley Long story short, I first read about Pauline Boty in this book. A few...
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The Reading List – Patrick Lichfield: Perceptions
Glossy, glossy, glossy. Say it enough times and the word starts to lose it’s meaning. If you’re not familiar with the work of Patrick Lichfield, then glossy is a good word to remember. As a titled...
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We’ll Take Manhattan
BBC4 is great. They screen documentary series’ on Regency Style, the history of horror films and women Spitfire pilots. It’s excellent brain fodder for not-so-closet nerdlingers like myself. The...
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I’m in Stereo and You’re So Monotone
I am loving the monochrome trend, I really am. As a journo, you tend to look at things with an analytical eye, but I really do just want to run off with a pile of black-and-white patterned clothes and...
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Kelly Reemtsen – Pretty Dresses, Power Tools
Do you listen to podcasts? I definitely do. I don’t listen to fashion podcasts. If such a thing existed, I would, but fashion is so visually powerful that podcasting seldom does it justice*. I listen...
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