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Even more fashion blogger action folks!

We've had so much love recently from a whole heap of our favourite fashion blogs recently which is simply amazing! Getting to see our clothing out and about in the real world and getting styled up in as many different ways as possible is just such a joy to us and we can't get enough.

As you might remember, a few weeks back top blogger and queen of various social media sites Killy from the fab Moon-Magik Fashion Blog featured our Jimi Hendrix Photographic Baseball T-Shirt (see it HERE) and it looked amazing! Well she's only gone and done it again, this time taking on our Love Kills T-Shirt from Kill Brand.

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Sadly! Gone are the days of big baggy jeans, chokers, denim shirts and biker shorts....well for most of us anyways!

BUT do not fear, while a lot of the big trends from the decade have long gone, there's still plenty of ways to show your love for these amazing times with some retro 90s inspired tees!

Like a lot of the classic flicks from the 80s, it seems there are a whole list of amazing films and TV shows from the decade that gave us the Spice Girls and hit show F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Take a trip down the not so distant past with some of our very best selling 90s T-Shirts...

Certainly one of the greatest chick flicks of the 90's, Clueless too the world by storm as we entered the weird and wonderful world of Cher, Tai and Dionne. This cult classic was a lively adaptation of 1816 Jane Austen novel 'Emma' and featured the lives of the ultra-rich at Beverly Hills high school.

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On Wednesday a few of us Trufflers travelled to London to see what Amplified have in store for us in their next collection and so we thought we would share a few of the sneaky peek pictures with you. The Amplified Preview day was held in a perfectly "Amplified" building in Hackney called the Depositories which is where Dragon's Den used to be filmed - how exciting!

As well as some amazing new bands and great new imagery we got to see the fab new shapes and styles Amplified have been working on and we just know you are going to love them. To see us through the cold winter months there are a collection of warm and cosy sweaters for men and ladies.

Our favourite item from the day was the new ladies speckled sweater with a new Ramones print which has just been introduced and is a great flattering fit, we think it is a great winter wardrobe necessity.

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This September marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s first major label album which kicked off the alt-rock explosion of the 90's,  Nevermind (anyone else suddenly feeling really old?)

To mark the occasion, a super deluxe edition is going to be released on September 19th. Available in versions ranging from a single CD to a five-disc box, it was assembled by Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Vig and Nirvana's management, as well as representatives of Cobain's estate. Along with a remastered version of Nevermind, the multidisc packages offer killer extras including B sides, alternate mixes and an entire live show.

I remember listening to this album for the first time with my mates in school. We were hiding in the gym at lunch time and Andy (the hardest rocking member of our clique) pulled out this cassette  (remember those  people)  which was to have a huge impact on my musical tastes. He’d taped Nevermind from his brother who probably taped it off some other kid like we all did back in the day and he  carefully set it inside the schools stereo system and cranked it up.....

The noise that came out was like nothing else I’d ever heard before and there was nothing much I could do other then jump around like a possessed monkey. I then borrowed that tape and copied it myself (please don't sue me Universal - I do now own a legal vinyl copy of Nevermind so surely that cancels it out?) and from then on, I can honestly say Nirvana pretty much dominated my midi system.

Nirvana were everything a teenager from the 90’s needed - they were chaotic, melodic, sarcastic, sympathetic, surrealistic and serendipitous. They literally moulded my youth!

If you’ve never heard Nevermind then do it, now and let us know how you got on! Or, if like me you can't forget your first experience of Nevermind we would sure like to hear about it. Only because we’re nosy like that......

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With the recent, tragic passing of Amy Winehouse, I'd like to shine a light upon the talent the musical world has lost to the so called "27 club"

Brian Jones - The Rolling Stones guitarist was found drowned in a swimming pool. A coroner's report explained the incident as 'death by misadventure'.

Jimi Hendrix - Pioneering guitarist Jimi Hendrix was a left handed guitarist who strung his right handed guitar backwards, playing it behind his head and even with his teeth at times. Whenever you air guitar, you are saluting this God of Rock. Jimi tragically died by asphyxiating on his own vomit. A well-known known drug addict, he had earlier combined sleeping pills with wine.

Janis Joplin - Songwriter Joplin died on October 4, 1970 from a heroin overdose. The raspy-voiced singer was called "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement in the sixties" by Time

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