While rockabilly 50s style are definitely tough, more traditional looks from the era take their inspiration from the quintessential American housewife. No archetypal housewife's look would be complete without a chic apron, like this one from Mis Cositas.

The half size apron fits perfectly over a classic circle skirt, but is equally stylish as the clothes its made to cover in a cute cherry print. A high waist makes it as practical as it is attractive, too.

Get it from PinUp Girl Clothing for $39.

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This vintage French inspired wall art is based around a sweet and simple idea. It uses old French dictionary pages as a back-ground for illustrations based around simple words. The image above shows 'hello', while the other images use the concepts of 'love', 'play' and 'raindrops'. Raindrops also features a charming illustration of a rain cloud.

Each image comes ready-framed in waste off-cuts and costs £19.95.

Buy them from Lily and Lime

It's go some time to go yet, but for us, this Philips stereo 22AF 200 portable record player is the bargain of the moment on eBay.

A 1970s design, but quite a sophisticated one, this mains-powered player packs away into a small carry case, looking pretty cool like that too. But open it up and you can remove the sides, which double up as two speakers, offering that stereo sound on the go. There's even dual volume controls, one for each speaker.

Sold in that orange colourway, it's currently up for just £1 (plus some postage from Germany). Yes, an absolute steal. Check out the record player opened up over the page or check out full details at the eBay site.

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Another company highlighting their heritage: in 2010 Portmeirion celebrates 50 years. They've been looking through their archives and produced a collection inspired by Susan Williams-Ellis' archive designs. This coffee pot is based on a similarly shaped pot they found that was covered in William-Ellis' hand-drawings. These drawings were the basis of the Magic Garden design, which began to be manufactured in 1970. The design looks as current now as it must have done back then. 

While mugs with this design are readily available, this coffee pot is limited to an edition of 500. Each pot costs £65. 

Buy it from the Beth Stevens website

There have been a few products around that have utilised old-fashioned school blackboards, but this item just uses the chalk.

The Chalk Chess Set comprises of regulation size chess pieces, but made from white and black chalk. The set does not include a board, because you can draw up your own on any suitable surface using the chalk pieces.

 The set costs £12 from Colloco.