Original, bitchin' set of stationery in striking packaging — from the 1980s teenage suburban stalwart brand.
Near fine.
Price: $300.00
Along with Benetton, Esprit helped define the bold look of 1980s popular fashion and design. To the young and the forgetful, the name may be no more than a distant name from history. But to those cursed with long and living memories, the sheer visual impact of this original stationery kit strikes like a saccharine sip of Orange Julius. A testament to the days when wearing one pair of pleated shorts over another pair of pleated shorts was a reasonable thing to do; when a pair of culottes began at the natural waist and ended at the shins; when simply putting on a puffy E S P R I T sweatshirt and bright headband was enough to summon a tennis-y gentleman in gleaming white polo shirt out of the aether to your side. From a bygone era of passing notes to to your friends, now sunk beneath oceans of texts and DMs, like another Atlantis. Esprit's designs remain influential. Iconic, as they say. Totally.
[San Francisco]: Esprit, [ca. mid 1980s]. 10.75'' x 10.75''. Original round ribbon-laced corrugated cardboard case. Containing ten unused leaves of (round) blank sheets of stationery. Stationery scored for easy folding (and privacy, duh), as issued. Generall clean and sound.
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