FLASHBACK: GOOD GIFTS GONE BAD

As you may have noticed the Christmas hype is getting pretty serious as we start to approach the 1st December. We have our own kind of gift ideas being vintage lovers and employees. We are thinking handmade and reworked flannel/denim twin set with matching scrunchie, cropped knitwear with matching scrunchie, handmade hair bows and head bands, mittens and beanies with bows on are probably what we will expect to share out with our loved ones this year. 

You can't go wrong with one off gifts that have been lovingly made with recycled fabrics and you will definitely avoid the embarrassment of opening the same thing as someone one else on Christmas morning. This got us thinking about some of the gifts that people would receive every year and have to force out that pretend 'Thank you' to those clueless family members who probably just shouldn't have bothered.. The 80's was a particularly wonderful time for bad gifts, and hair, because there were no online wishlists or facebook you could share and make sure you get what you really want. Even though we kind of loved them at the time, theses items are mere car boot compost now. 

Here are some of our favourite unwanted gifts and awkward Christmas mornings of the 80s and 90s. 

Don't get caught out this year and be prepared. Visit WWW.WEARECOW.COM or pop into your nearest store for the best gifts this Christmas!

REWORKED KNITWEAR: CUT IT SHORT

We know there is nothing more comforting than a huge comfy jumper to cosy into for the colder months. We get so many of those at COW so we decided to play about with some of them and give you more options How To Wear your knitwear this season. 

Here are our Reworked Cropped Knits to give your winter wear an instant update. All stores have plenty of options, patterns and colours for you to choose from.

We recommend mixing them with longer shirts underneath over trousers or shorts. Or go girly with a pleated skirt and layer with scarves, knee high socks and gloves!

We will be adding these to our website WWW.WEARECOW.COM very soon so keep it here!

FLASHBACK: Old School Super Babes

With all of the Spring/Summer '14 Fashion Weeks coming to a close in Paris we have a lot to go over and start to pull out the next season trends to make sure we are looking for the items, colours, styles and fabrics you want to be wearing next season.

For now though we are Flashing backwards to the 80's and 90's when the word Supermodel was a big deal and there was a lot of flashing. Where the same top Supermodels would have been in all of the biggest shows and designer campaigns! 

We will never forget the classic icons like Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Naomi Cambell, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangalista, Christy Turlington and Tyra Banks to name a few. Here are our favourite High Fashion images when supermodels were 'IT' and photographers loved to group them up and make them huddle together to get that timeless pic!

Oh Versace, Guess.. Chain, leather, denim, white tees and caps. Love!

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New In: Sunglasses for All!

Just in time for the summertime, that keeps popping in and out, we have received a great selection of sunglasses in all of our stores!  There are styles-a-plenty from sophisticated retro cat eye shapes, original ray ban shapes to the 70's bugged eyed Jackie O shape with loads of patterned and fun styles in between!

ALL STYLES £7.50 EACH! 

But all of our personal favourites are the large circle flip up style! Because you look like Mickey Mouse obvs..

If you are in the Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Birmingham area please make sure you pop in and find your favourite style! If you get your hands on the Mickey glasses tag us in a pic on Twitter or Instagram @WEARECOW!!

CLUB TROPICANA - Limited Edition T-Shirt Raffle!

So even though we are putting on a spectacular event with an evening full of discounts, free drinks, great music and fun times, we thought this just isn't enough.

Evolving from this thought we bring to you our Limited Edition 1980's style Graphic Print T-Shirt up for grabs on the night of the Club Tropicana Party!! As we may have mentioned before every store has a creative team of staff that love to use COW to really show off those talents. One of those members of staff is the ever talented Allan Buxton who we have definitely mentioned before for his COW Vintage short film which was styled, recorded and edited by himself. Check that our here!

You may also be familiar with his work in stores as he designs and prints t-shirts for his own company Howl At The Sun and we stock those t-shirts in all of our COW stores. This time we asked Allan to come up with a simple and modern version of a 1980's print just for our Club Tropicana event. 

This is the final printed garment and with only 50 printed between 4 stores they are genuinely limited!

Still interested..? Fancy a limited edition 1980's graphic print t-shirt for yourself..? Just follow these easy steps to be in for a chance of winning one..

1- GO TO YOUR NEAREST COW VINTAGE STORE TUESDAY 16TH APRIL.

2- BUY A RAFFLE TICKET FOR £1 FROM THE LOVELY STAFF.

3- EITHER HANG AROUND TILL 9PM OR CHECK THE FACEBOOK PAGE TO SEE IF YOUR TICKET WAS CHOSEN!

4- COLLECT YOUR LIMITED EDITION PRINT T-SHIRT!!

SIMPLE!!

Good Luck and we look forward to seeing you all there! 

X

80's CLUB TROPICANA PARTY

We are so ready for the Summer now and we thought with all of this good will in the air maybe if we all put our heads together we can make it happen!

So picture this.. It might still be a bit chilly outside but you walk into COW and there is the best of the 80's blasting out, everyone dressed in Hawaiian shirts, floral garlands, pineapple sunglasses, tie dye, shorts and skirts. A bar man giving out fruity alcoholic punch and shaking up some Cow Moojitos! You and your friends trying on all of our newest Spring/ Summer stock to jazz up your wardrobes and if you like anything you will get a 15% discount! Sounds pretty good to us so here it is...

TUESDAY 16TH APRIL

6PM - 10PM

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, NOTTINGHAM AND BIRMINGHAM

15% OFF

DJ'S

FREE DRINKS

FANCY DRESS

PHOTO BOOTH

PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS

EVERYONE WELCOME

FUN FUN FUN!

Legs Eleven

There was a gasp of surprise, horror and excitement when our delivery arrived containing a whole batch of leg warmers. The aim of the leg warmer is that it does exactly what it is meant to.. keep your legs warm and that is great for those who like to layer up and snuggle into some heavy knitwear, gloves, scarves and winter accessories. We have had to separate our styles into cosy, practical winter wear and loud, colourful 80's leg warmers.

If you feel like the bright, neon, sports, '80s Fame style pairs are more for you then we salute you. Like most of our product in store, we cater for all so this can't be any different. Though if you are looking for that other layer for these freezing cold mornings or you do fancy the perfect fancy dress accessory, you know where to come and find it!

We have tried them both and can highly recommend a good warm up in the correct attire to this playlist!

Salt-N-Pepa PUSH IT

Rick James SUPER FREAK

Madonna INTO THE GROOVE

Shannon LET THE MUSIC PLAY

Scrunchies are back..

..Love them or hate them they are here! The scrunchie has made quite a comeback on the Spring/Summer 13 Catwalk and we have decided to make our own collection for our 80's loving fashion focussed gals out there. There are many colours, prints and sizes to choose from and will be available in all of our stores soon.

Here are the shows that reminded us even though they are a little bit silly and a little bit scary they will always be fun, keep your hair out of your eyes and bring out our inner Madonnas!

 Ashish S/S13

 Jean Paul Gaultier S/S13

Vivienne Westwood Red Lable S/S13

All show images from style.com