Sometimes, after weeks of paging through vintage fashion magazines and seeing countless pouty/haughty-faced models, I’ll find myself just hoping for...
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’80s Bodycon Stretch
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’80s Bodycon Stretch
If I were asked to name the biggest contribution to fashion history the 1980s gave us it would have to...
Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
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Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
As I sit at my desk today, on the cusp of the annual long weekend known usually as The August...
’80s Molly Ringwald
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’80s Molly Ringwald
I could dress in head-to-toe black, mope about my parents’ house and complain about everything, but none of that would...
White Hatters
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White Hatters
In the throes of summer there’s always one thing to consider: hats. More specifically: white hats that don’t attract any...
Sonia Rykiel
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Sonia Rykiel
There are designers I loved in the 1980s for their runway theatrics (like Gaultier) and those I adored for the...
Gals on the Go
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Gals on the Go
Getting around in the 1980s seemed so very fun — if all the cheesy images of women rollerskating, bike-riding, scootering...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of June 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of June 2014
168 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
The ’80s, as Featured in Elle
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The ’80s, as Featured in Elle
Elle Style: The 1980s Edited by Francois Baudot and Jean Demachy Filipacchi Publishing, 194 pages, 2003 Elle magazine today is...
Time Will Tell
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Time Will Tell
With our mobile phones like an extra appendage, there’s not much actual need for a watch. While watches may be...