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How Do You Choose Your Signature Piece

Have a look around. Your furniture, your car, your shoes – what are their stories?

I’m sure you can name a handful of possessions that say a lot about you. What made you fall in love with them? Is there a fragrance of choice, a scratched watch, a pair of faded jeans or a suit you could never part with and, if necessary, wouldn’t think twice about replacing with another of the same? I bet these…

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Style Sub Culture: Berlin Grunge

Introduction

.With this particular sub culture Leave the sharp tailoring at the door as your wardrobe takes on the grunge. Think. Bauhaus, China Girl era Iggy and Bowie, Interpol, The Hurts, impossibly long nightclub stints and even more impossible bouncers: in Berlin, if you don’t look the part, you’re simply not getting in.

If you’re looking for an alternative to the pocket square blazer…

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Style Icon - Noel Fielding

Style Icon – Noel Fielding

We reckon Noel Fielding would much rather say he knicks his clothes from a moose cycling a Penny Farthing through Putney Heath, than admit to actually going shopping, but here at ra ra retro HQ we don’t advocate thievery. So, we’ve compiled a selection of slightly gothic tips to give you a practical and basic guide to the the Mighty Boosh’s main man’s wardrobe.

To start with dear Noel wouldn’t…

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Wearing Your Winter Wardrobe In Spring

Wearing Winter In Spring

The transitional period is a tricky time of year for lovers of fashion. We’re all itching to purchase new lightweight clothing and refresh our wardrobe for spring/summer but, in reality, the warm weather is still a couple of months away and it isn’t clear exactly what direction menswear will be headed. This is where the ideas of the so called capsule wardrobe comes in.

Fa…

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Men’s Spectacles/Glasses Guide

Introduction

Opticians have been inevitable stops on my shopping trips for over a decade – since I got my first pair of glasses. At that time, when glasses were either rimless or awful Oakley sports ones, my choice was a black/ red acetate (plastic) rectangular pair I dared to wear to school (yes, the kid with mad specs at seventeen). From that day on, my specs would never go unnoticed.

Whether,…

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How to Dress - The Trouser, Socks & Shoes Conundrum

How to Dress – The Trouser, Socks & Shoes Conundrum

Sometimes it’s the simplest of things that can cause you the most frustration. Whether it’s that one tie that just can’t be knotted at the right length or that button on your cuff that just won’t button, we all have occasions when a molehill becomes a mountain.

I found myself in this exact situation a few weeks back when considering shoes, socks and trousers – and what colour goes with which. I…

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