Another hangover from the 60s. Pants which were tight at the top and baggy at the bottom. They were based on naval uniform pants which…
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As fashion merged into one unanimous look in the 70s (denim flares and decal tees), your badge of pride was a huge metal belt buckle,…
Controversy abounds when Benetton is around. The brainchild of founder Luciano Benetton, the Italian company has shocked, disturbed, and inspired since 1965. The “United Colors…
Bermuda Shorts were the strangest male fashion fad to come along in the 1950s. Businessmen would actually wear the big, baggy shorts to work during…
The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the North Atlantic Ocean spanning more than 500,000 square miles where, over the years, many ships and planes…
When, on the day before her 22nd birthday in April 1969, Irish psychology student Bernadette Devlin became the youngest woman ever elected (for the Northern…
Bristol company Hort’s, which was run by Frank and Aldo Berni (whose father ran a chain of Italian ice cream parlours in South Wales before…
The “Best of the West” line of 12-inch action figures and accessories from Marx centred around the iconic cowboy Johnny West and his horse, Thunderbolt. The…
In 1975, Sony released Betamax – an analogue-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video. Advertised with the slogan that you can “watch whatever,…
Already blessed with injection moulding skills, Airfix decided to take the plunge into the building construction kit market with Betta Bilda in 1961. No doubt…
Designer Barbara Hulanicki began running a mail-order fashion operation in 1964 with her husband Stephen Fitzsimon. They felt that the price of fashion was too…
Inside you, there’s a wacky, zany and crazy character just bursting to get out – but your problem is poor eyesight, and an aversion to…
In the extremes of the 80s, the “bigger is better” concept came also to hair. To follow the fashion precept that all things must be…
Produced from 1972 to 1986 by Mattel for the North American and European markets, Big Jim was a poor cousin of GI Joe, so kids could…
This 23-inch-long cannon truck from Marx could swivel, elevate, and fire missiles via a push-button control powered by four “D” batteries. In addition to firing…
Big Trak (styled ‘bigtrak’ in the UK) was the brainchild of an electronically minded Milton Bradley Company (who released Simon and Microvision during the same…
There was nothing more glorious than getting a brand new Big Wheel. And nothing as inglorious as our mothers’ mandates that we not ride in…
‘Bigfoot’ was a major fascination in the 1970s, explored in numerous documentaries (such as the In Search Of . . . series hosted by Leonard…
The bikini made its official debut in the summer of 1946, just a few days after the US Military conducted nuclear tests and exploded the…
In 1997 the consequences of two alleged sexual misdemeanours coincided in a nightmare scenario for President Clinton. During a sexual harassment case relating to alleged…