Gold Cassette Buckle: Where Music And Fashion Collide March 15, 2007

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There’s retro ‘good’, ‘bad’ and ‘Oh dear Jesus, ugly’ but I can’t honestly say which one this shiny gold belt buckle falls into.

For old skool audioheads then this buckle, created from an actual cassette with 18k gold plating and bronze plating on the bottom, will mean different things. As someone with around 300 cassettes of classic albums and those all-important, homemade compilations sitting in dusty cases, they were a huge part of my music life. However, for all the joy they brought they were also the most frustrating and finicky audio format I ever had to deal with, destroying tape decks in horrific numbers.

When I look at this buckle, the hairs on the back of my neck rise up, just not in a good way. That said, if you are a retro, fashionista disco queen, then maybe this shines for you. All you need is £120. Belt not included. -Martin Lynch

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