Caring for your clothes the Beyond Retro way!

Here at Beyond Retro we want you to get the most out of your vintage clothes, so we’ve put together a set of hints and tips for caring for your special garments.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

This fox was captured at our Cheshire St store, looking fine and dandy as he bought one of our vintage fur stoles.

Create a Beyond Retro Look!

For those of you who’d spend all day in our vintage haven if only you had the time, we bring you news of Looklet.com, possibly the coolest thing we’ve ever found on the internet

News Flash! New ‘Shop by Size’ Feature for Online Store

At last! You can now tell the true measure of style with the exciting new addition of the ‘size slider’ to the already wonderful Beyond Retro online store

Black Swan Sails Into Beyond Retro!

Discover your own Black Swan with our Ballet Chic trends. We have everything you need to plie and pirouette your way through this frufru trend.

Halloween Spooktacular at Beyond Retro!

This Halloween Beyond Retro are (g)hosting a magician’s chamber full of ghoulish tricks and treats for our customers! We’ve got everything you need for a spellbinding night; from magical magician’s capes and top hats to sequin dresses for the most glamorous of assistants. But if this circus of horrors isn’t making you quiver with fear we have plenty of other spooky costumes for you to chose from, including pumpkins, vampires, (brothers) grimm fairy tales and evil clowns. So whether you’re Houdini or a howling werewolf, a witch or a Hitchockian heroine we have everything you need for a spooktacular Halloween!

Retro Hollywood Glamour at the V&A This Friday

This Friday the V & A will be hosting a celebration of 1950s Hollywood glamour and the reign of Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando. Visitors are encouraged to don their finery and channel the decadence of the era in the classic setting of the V&A…you all know how much I love an excuse to dress up!!

The event includes film screenings, performances by dandy comedians Fitzrovia Radio Hour and a specially devised Alfred Hitchcock & Friends quiz. Illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve will be in residence, creating artwork and you can travel back in time to the age of Technicolor with a visit to a pop-up L’Oréal ‘salon’, where coiffeurs will recreate glamorous hairstyles for visitors. Guests can also take a turn around the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition and enjoy exhibition-related talks around the Museum as well as late bars and live music.

London’s Next Top Tranny has returned!!

Whether it’s Miss America, Miss World, Miss Universe or even the innocent Rose of Tralee we love a good beauty pageant here at Beyond Retro…the glamour, backstabbing, tiaras and tears!!! This September the Fabulous Russella invites you to London’s Next Top Tranny, the original and best tranny talent competition.

Contestants will be judged in various rounds on categories to include performance ability, overall look, catwalking ability and cookery skills. So whether it’s runway ready dresses, sky scrapper heels, creative wigs or vintage aprons we have everything you need to be Top of the Trannies. The first of three heats starts on 8th September with the grand finale on 30th September.

To Enter email – toptranny@googlemail.com for details

Look Good in Leather

While I love the image of James Dean brooding in his leather jacket in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ my heart did a little fashion flip when I saw these cute camel coloured leather trousers calling to me from the Beyond Retro aisles. In fact, I even swapped the traditional motorbike for a vintage pink Raleigh Caprice. With everything from leather trousers, high waisted shorts, waistcoats, skirts and jackets there’s no reason why we can’t all sing along to the words of the Cody Chestnut classic “I look good in leather. And I know you, wish that you, could look like me.”

Denim, Chinos, Brogues and our wonderful Vintage Fox

The wonderful Lene. Brogues, chinos, Bretton stripes, double denim… I don’t know how many more trends she could of piled on in one go (whilst still looking effortlessly cool of course!) Seeing how wellLene pulls off the whole casual look reminds me of those all singing and dancing 90′s Gap ads. Makes me want to put on my dancing shoes and do the khaki swing!