Category: Bags

Continuing with our fascination with all tape-based items, we now present this rather impressive Retro Cassette tote bag.

It’s made of plastic, with a full-colour design that’s every bit the vintage cassette – only much bigger. And just to add to the detail, the handle even looks like unraveling tape. And it’s big enough to carry just about everything you’ll need when you’re out and about.

Details of the bag are available at the Fred & Friends website – with the exception of the price. You’ll have to check with your local supplier of their products (available on the site) for that.

Find out more at the Fred & Friends website

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Orla Kiely is no stranger to these pages – and for good reason. She’s always reliable for some stylish retro-inspired designs. And this new season is no different – we’re currently loving this Orla Kiely small vinyl weekend bag.

It’s probably the vinyl that gives it that retro look, along with the choice of colours in the range (there’s a brown and a white alongside the red featured here). There’s also a car print lining, three studded exterior pockets, inside zip and mobile pockets and a key chain.

If all that appeals, you can pick one up now, priced at £175.

Find out more at the Orla Kiely website

Spotted over on the Scandinavian Design Centre website are these stylish messengers bags based on well-known Swedish fabric designs from the 1950s.

There are five designs in total – Pottery (pictured) by Stig Lindberg, Raxt by artist Olle Bonniér, Casa by the textile artist Viola Gråsten, Margret Rose by the graphic designer Olle Eksell and Dolphin Movement by artist Karl-Axel Pehrson.

The designs are printed on high quality bleached cotton, with the sides in black canvas. They retail for £75.21.

Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Centre website

We recently featured Retrodelics’s Gym Bag, but as the company has so many great bags, we thought we would pick out another – this time for the women the Retrodelic doctor-style handbag.

As the name suggests, it’s very much in the style of an old-fashioned doctor’s bag and in a choice of colours, including this fire engine red leather. It uses a single large zipped compartment with brightly-coloured lining and silver-plated metallic fittings.

Limited edition and sized at 15 x 10  x 6 inches, you can pick it up for $240 (around £120).

Find out more at the Retrodelic website

Looking like the wallpaper you might see in an old family photograph is this Dorothy Perkins Retro Print luggage.

There’s a definite 70s feel here – an extreme version of a wild 70s wallcovering. Two items in the range, the larger luggage pictured here, as well as a holdall that should be useful as a cool weekend bag.

Both are 100% cotton and machine washable, with the luggage retailing for £30 and the holdall for £25.

Find out more at the Dorothy Perkins website

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