Alexis Petridis: They're stringing us along. Again

The string vest is back in fashion, so if you really want to look like Jimmy Savile, rush down the shops nowRevivals should, by nature, be an editing process. You tactfully snip out the embarrassing bits of the past, so enabling you to present it as better than the present. It's why the baby boomer that never stops jawing on about the 60s being the greatest decade in the history of civilisation tends to concentrate more on the Beatles doing All You Need Is Love angle rather than the founding of ...

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