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Thirty-Year Flashback

Vogue, June 1984

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I get it — I really do. Designers spend major money on shooting their campaigns and want to be the...

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Tumblr Top Tens

Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of May 2014

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176 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....

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Editor's Letter

In the Swim

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If I think about June for too long I’ll just want to head to my bedroom, curl up and sleep,...

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Trend Bazaar

Nailed It

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It must be summer because I’ve finally gotten around to giving myself a pedicure and painting my toenails hot pink....

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Books

For the Love of Smash Hits

The Best of Smash Hits: the ’80s edited by Mark Firth Sphere, 192 pages, 2006 If there is one guilty...

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Welcome to the Little Room

The Sweetest Taboo

Heather C. and I stole a copy of Playgirl magazine from the Eaton’s store at the mall on Friday. I...

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Look Book

Georges Marciano/Guess?

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Ah, the days of Guess — I remember them well. By the mid-1980s when Guess had become the denim label,...

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Why I Love....

’80s Flats

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You’re not supposed to admit it, that you actually like flat-heeled shoes, not today in the age of cartoonish, sky-high...

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Trend Bazaar

Black, White and Stripey Allover

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Summer, to some, may mean bikinis and cut-off denim short-shorts, but to me the season means stripes — lots and...

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Books

Fashion’s Future, Imagined

Fashion 2001 by Lucille Khornak Viking Press, 112 pages, 1982 I am a sucker for any book about the future...

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