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  • Tomorrow: £5 Facebook sale

    Tomorrow: £5 Facebook sale

    We’re having a proper clear out here at Tinker Tailor so at 7 p.m. GMT, Monday 26th August – that’s TOMORROW – we will be having a £5 sale on Facebook. What will we be selling? All manner of vintage dresses, some goodies from River Island, Zara, Levis and Office – all for the princely…

  • Learning The Basics

    I’ve always shied away from buying plain T-shirts and neutral vests as I saw them as well, boring.  However, each summer I find myself ransacking drawer upon drawer in search of a simple top that’s both cool and stylish yet I always end up empty handed. So in light of this forever-fruitless task and because…

  • Top of the crops

    Drop and give me 20 – the crop top is back.   I’d read it in the magazines and seen it creeping into a few in shops.  The latest thing to be littering the high street is indeed the return of the 80s crop top. T-shirt, vest, 50s rockabilly tie-hem shirt, striped or ditsy; make…

  • To brogue or not to brogue?

    Amongst the platform, shoe-boot and plimsoll, the brogue is making a come back. I’ve always been a fan of the classic men’s Bugsy Malone brogue (as pictured to your left) and in fact, do own a pair of dolly shoes in a similar guise.  Note to self…do rake them out of the seven billion other…

  • Dead trendy. Fashion victims bid farewell to wet look leggings

    Peel them off as er, quickly as you can and say goodbye to wet look leggings.  After little more than four months, the explosive trend of PVC, shiny, glossy, or wet look leggings bites the dust.  Thank god for that.  Ok, so only the black ones.   But hey, it’s a start. Truly the sign…

  • Tough, tailored and to die for – Todd Lynn for Topshop

    Rock and roll’s best-kept secret is out –Todd Lynn has arrived at Topshop.   In an exclusive collaboration, Lynn has designed seven limited edition pieces for Topshop combining this season’s monochrome palette, feathers and fur with structural cutting edge tailoring.  The result: the epitome of rock and roll cool right at your finger tips at Topshop.com.…

  • ASOS; The New Topshop

    Move over Philip Green (and please do take Kate with you) – ASOS is in town and is cleaning up the virtual fashion forefront. Formerly known as As Seen On Screen, ASOS rose to popularity by doing something similar to Primark but instead of just ripping off every other high street store (and a few couture…