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Welcome to HOW RETRO, which is all about the 20th century - films, fashion, TV, people, popular culture and more. Like Lot's Wife, we just can't help looking back...

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Fop Hairstyles

17th century engraving of a British actor, in character as 'Lord Foppington'. Source: Wiki Commons What Does Fop Mean? Th...

Top Actresses of the 1960s

When you're hot, you're hot and in the 1960s there was no-one more sizzling than these female movie stars... The social rev...

Wooden Framed Sunglasses

The Wood Look What goes around comes around in the fashion industry and that's certainly true of sunglasses, the designers of wh...

Decorating with Chandeliers

"The term "chandelier" is from the 12th Century Old French world Chandelier , which evolved from an earlier, 10th cen...

Top of the Range: Molteni Stoves

It was the master chefs of the 1920's who helped direct the development of Molteni stoves, a brand name synonymous with high quali...

Chesterfield Couches

History of the Chesterfield Sofa Apparently many Canadians refer to any sofa as a Chesterfield but this is news to me as I've al...

Elsa Schiaparelli; Shocking

Shocking Schiaparelli Elsa Schiaparelli was one of Coco Chanel's biggest rivals. In the Paris scene of the 1930s, the Italian bo...

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