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Colourways

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Whenever I find an item I really, really like I’m always tempted to toss around the classic I’ll take one...

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’80s Menswear Dressing

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Menswear dressing in the 1980s typically did not mean menswear-inspired dressing, it meant suit, tie, button-up shirt — especially the...

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’80s Skinny Sneakers

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My affection for skinny sneakers started in the 1980s and came from a place of necessity more than anything. I...

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Hanging on the Telephone

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Using a phone booth (a what?), being restricted to a particular radius by a long, curly cord or chatting with...

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Vacation — All I Ever Wanted

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As I sit at my desk today, on the cusp of the annual long weekend known usually as The August...

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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of June 2014

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168 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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The ’80s Denim Jacket

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I still have the 1970s Lee jean jacket I swiped from my Dad’s wardrobe as a teenager in the 1980s....

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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of February 2014

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160 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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Are ‘Friends’ Electric?

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Oh, the boomboxes and giant VHS home video cameras, the Polaroids and digital calculator watches. Nothing dates faster than technology...

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1980s Esprit

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1987 was a big year. I had left high school and had taken up correspondence studies. I had a full-time...

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