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Posts tagged ‘1980s’

March 24th, 2011

Eat Your Strawberry Shortcake & Keep It Too

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

There are a lot of Wilton Strawberry Shortcake cake pans or molds on eBay, many are even authentic retro items. But we’re the only one with the Strawberry Shortcake Cake Decorating Kit by Wilton.

Included in the box is the heavy aluminum foil Strawberry Shortcake pan and the complete instructions for baking and decorating, which has three variations for decorating: Strawberry Shortcake with a letter, with a greeting card (likely for Valentine’s Day), and with a gift.

Box measures roughly 15 x 12 inches; foil pan is about 14 inches tall (outside edges). Copyright date is 1982, American Greeting Corp.

March 14th, 2011

Something To Match His Keyboard Tie

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Why have regular epaulets when you can wear a sparkly keyboard? This retro sparkly vest has black & white piano keys across the back and sticking out on the shoulders and, because that would be too subtle, silver beaded music notes down the front. It’s totally 80s!

Images via Spitfire Vintage Clothing.

February 25th, 2011

Guerrilla Groundhog First Issue

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

I may still have this issue of Guerrilla Groundhog (Eclipse Comics, No 1), if anyone’s interested…

February 22nd, 2011

Puffin Her Shirt Out

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

The seller says it’s a penguin on this retro sweatshirt, but I was so certain it was a puffin that I called hubby over for his bird’s eye view and opinion.

“Puffin or penguin?” I asked.

“Puffin,” he replied with nary a pause.

“That’s what I said!” I squealed.

“Although…” he began,  pontificating on the origin of the word puffin (or was it penguin?) so before my eyes began to glaze over (I have been up all night, you know) I told him to go post his own blog.

It hardly seems fitting for Latin origins of animal species to be beside jokes about female bust lines.

Then again, there’s probably nothing right about joking about female bust lines.

But that shirt asked for it.

February 14th, 2011

Got Cereal On Your Shirt?

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

From the 1983 Fall/Winter Sears catalog, cereal shirts (Trix, Cocoa Puffs, and Super Sugar Crisp) for boys — easily hidden beneath some bibs. Which just goes to show ya, boys never out-grow their baby bibs.

February 8th, 2011

The Ultimate 80s Shoe

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Maybe you weren’t alive and kickin’ it in the 80′s, but I was and I can assure you, both as a chick and a shoe seller at that time, that these shoes would have been flying off store shelves. Nearly every girl (and a great number of the boys) had a big — over-sized with padded shoulders — flannel shirt with such a “plaid” on it. Usually it was a bright or neon color with black, but sometimes white, off white, and pastels were married to the black too. And these slouchy flats with granny-esque buttons would have been awesome, baby.

Just think of the possibilities… Wearing your purple & black flannel under an over-sized turquoise shaker-knit sweater over black leggings, belted even, with a pair of these hot pink booties! Ah, that’s how it was done, dears. So if you want to take your retro style to the max, get these. Frankie says, “Relax, they’re on sale for just $19.99.” Sale found via Shop It To Me.

February 5th, 2011

Ah, Galaga…

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

I too made some money wagering off the video game. If you’re a retro gaming nerd, check out The Arcade Flyer Archive and Retro Programming.

January 20th, 2011

Sears Calling

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Don’t you just love looking at your favorite catalog models? …Remember sneaking them into the bathroom for a little dreamy privacy, and — what? You didn’t get that way over the latest telephone models from American Bell and GTE?

Not the Flip-Phone or the Fashion Plate? Not even the Princess telephone?!

Huh.

I guess I’m just weird that way.

Two pages from the Fall-Winter 1983 Sears catalog.

January 18th, 2011

And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

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November 1st, 2010

Masters Of The Retro Airwaves

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Spotted at an auction at Villiard’s this weekend, a MOTU transistor radio with He-Man on one side…

Skeletor on the other.

I don’t know how much it sold for; not only was it in a box with several other retro transistors, but there were multiple auction rings going on and I missed seeing it actually sell.