F*ck you very much, Lily Allen (that’s a song by Lily Allen, not an aggressive-passive way of swearing at an erstwhile pop star who is predictably going into fashion after being pushed out of the limelight by the new crop of 14 year old stars.)

Let’s try and start that again. Hurray! Lily Allen is starting a vintage fashion vintage business called ‘Lucy in Disguise’ that seeks to find the choicest pieces of vintage attire and sell them to fashionable people who don’t have time to go rummaging through dumpsters and picking through estate sales.

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Circle skirts are well regarded for their flattering cut, which will always disguise the sins of large thighs (in a bizarre world where owning thighs that aren’t twigs is somehow a basis for the condemnation of a person,) however it will also cover the derriere, which gives this skirt the single handed power to bring down the entire Kardashian franchise in one fell swoop, if they can only be persuaded to wear them.

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The cape is a much maligned fashion accessory that only seems to get a look in when the zombie monsters trot it down the runway. Personally, I see absolutely no reason why the cape should ever have gone out of fashion. It is just as stylish now as it was in Victorian London, and it marries form with admirable function. That is to say, one looks dramatic whilst wearing a cape, and one’s shoulders and back are also protected from lazy maids hurling the contents of chamber pots out of upstairs windows. Win, win, win.

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Oh fashion, how I love thee. I especially love thee when you do something quirky, like decide that drawstring bags are totally hot and exceptionally in right now.

I think that this trend of drawstring bags goes much deeper than mere 70′s inspired homage however, especially if we look at drawstring bags like this leather looking one from Kooba (only $365 what a steal), which, quite frankly, remind me of the bags you see in role playing games and massive multiplayer online role playing games, like World of Warcraft.

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It's a shirt and it's a pair of panties! Shipanties!

According to Elle Magazine gurus, the 70′s are coming back. Which is nice, because a lot of the fashions they’re touting as being ‘in’ any minute now are fashions that my mother still has in her wardrobe. On the downside, this is going to reinforce her idea that it is bad to throw old clothing away and we’ll be stuck with her power suits until well after most of Earth’s population has relocated to Mars.

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