This Seiko Retro Clock is a modern timepiece, but with a distinctly 70s look.
Indeed, we’re loving those white space age-style curves and bold digital display, underpinned with the Seiko logo at the bottom. Ideal for your wall, but with a stand too, you can use it anywhere around the house.
Cheap too – you can pick this up for just £30.
Find out more at the Seiko website
On the day of a historic US election, this American Stars and Stripes Cushion seems wholly appropriate.
It is designed by Jan Constantine who specialises in hand-sewn products often with a retro look. Union Jacks, the word Love and pop art hearts feature heavily in her designs, but here she has used the American flag as inspiration. It is made from wool felt and has been hand stitched.
It costs £59.95 from the Vinegar Hill website.
Not just a pocket watch, the Mondaine Travel Pocket Alarm Watch will even get you up in the morning.
This isn’t the first Mondaine we’ve featured here, regular readers will already know that this is modelled on the Swiss Railway Station Clock, first designed back in the 1940s by Hans Hilfiker. This particular version offers old school timekeeping as a pocket watch (with snake chain) or as an alarm clock, using the integrated stand. Aside from that, it has a quartz movement, glass and steel construction and a red leather pouch to keep it safe.
Yours for £135.
Weekend bags can often feel like little more than a necessary evil, especially for those required to fly on a regular basis. Finding practicality and style together is a bit of a challenge, but this D&G Leopard Lily bag might just have it.
With a great big dollop of rockabilly style thanks to the print, and to a lesser extent the handle shape that affects the way you carry, this is a little bit of retro luxury. Made of leather, with three large compartments, it promises to be sturdy and roomy too.
With a label like Dolce & Gabbana, it’s no surprise that this will set you back £1265.
There are so many things fashion writers would have you believe are ‘must have’ items, and we all know they’re usually anything but. A perennial classic, though, is the woolen dress for winter, and its one that at least makes sense year upon year.
This simple but stylish wool shift dress by J. Crew is a chic, pinafore style that’s most likely to be wearably stylish for years to come, if not always. The simple, high necked bodice contrasted with a fuller kneelength skirt, gives a demure look that’s fully grown up past the classroom.
Get it online for $148 from J. Crew.
This retro patterned wallpaper by Scandinavian company Ferm Living has been given the name “Dotty”, but rather than dots, the print is made up of little trees. The trees are yellow and brown and a very much in the Scandinavian folk art style.
It is being marketed as wallpaper for a child’s room, but used sparingly it could work in an adult’s room too. If you like the print but not as wallpaper, there is a cushion in the same pattern also available.
The wallpaper costs just over £50 per roll and is available from the Scandinavian Design Center. The cushion costs just over £30.
