pair of Biba shoes or boots and then go elsewhere. New Look does a pink wool check swing coat with long, white-buttoned cuffs for £70 and a black-and-white, dog-tooth pea coat, also £70. Team with one of their baker-boy hats, £8. Biba-inspired skirts and blouses can be found at Topshop; check out their short, black shift dress with a white Peter-Pan collar at £75.

Get your eye in first at the Swinging London exhibition at the V&A, or read BIBA: The Biba Experience by Alwyn W Turner. As for evening gloves, boas, bags and jewellery, go vintage. The key is to camp it up with dramatic eye make up, big lips, tall boots and skinny clothes in louche, lounge lover colours (olive green, gold, purple). Hulaniki did it for our mothers, but this time round, unless we are feeling super flush, we must to do the legwork ourselves.

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