A couple of brilliant German adverts for the Twiggy clothing range. I love that Ban-Lon is ‘Bani-Lon’, but Crimplene is hideous Crimplene in any language…
(p.s I still have an über rare Twiggy-labelled dress for sale over at Vintage-a-Peel)
Failure to capture The Beatles for prop-related shenanigans? That bloody Rigg woman must have tipped them off. Kein problem…. Just stick some cardboard cut-outs amongst the random prop department and no one will notice the difference. Genius!
(May I just repeat how much I LOVE Bravo magazine? I might just have to dedicate this blogging week to its glory…)
Little does she realise…
Diana likes antiques. But she’s a bit scared of breaking them, so she sits very still.
Diana is very politically incorrect. But she manages it with panache.
Diana and the ‘men in her life’? Top is, I’m guessing, her father. Top right is Philip Saville, her partner at the time. He was still married and they were very open about their relationship.
Diana is a very, very bad girl. (See above)
Diana grows her own.
Diana likes to sail…in very flimsy boats.
Diana is a goddess. But we already knew this.
Diana has a poodle called Poopie. This isn’t him (I hope).
Awwwww…..
Diana likes to travel (Dressed like a spy. Of course).
You can’t read her p-p-poker face.
Please tell my management, I’ve been kidnapped by this German magazine. Help!!!
I have just listed a rare piece of Biba menswear over on eBay. Not only is it a rare piece of Biba menswear, it’s also the same print as one worn by the divinely dissolute Keith Richards. I’m 99.9% certain that Keef’s is a bit of ladieswear, probably stolen from a girlfriend or even just from the rails of the boutique (as so many people did) but it’s a pretty cool coincidence nonetheless, non?
In other news, I would like to say hello to anyone who has just found me via The Guardian’s ‘Internet Picks of the Week‘ feature. Hello! If you want the promised feature on Scopitones, you can find that here.
Cine Revue, January 1969
Many moons ago, I ran a website dedicated to Diana Rigg. Time, finances, enthusiasm; they all waned drastically and it became defunct a couple of years back. Seems I rarely post about her these days (though this is certainly not intentional) and lo! this is to be another post sans Rigg. For I have realised, more recently, that I had accumulated a whole pile of bizarre Sixties and Seventies TV and film magazines (rarely even in English) in my efforts to find the rarest pictures of La Rigg.
I never really looked terribly closely at them, I was working too hard on scanning in the pictures for which I had bought them and would often file them away without really, really reading them. A couple of magazines have garnered these gorgeous shots of Britt Ekland, amongst other interesting things, and I thought I would share them.
Cine Revue, October 1968
Yet another incidence of an average 1970s or 1980s-produced ‘History of Fashion’ book where the text is cliché-ridden and lousy, but then some amazing and rare images seem to make up for it, and then you try to find out who took the photo, when they took it and what it features, and fail dismally. Or AANONPHOFBWTTICRALBTSAARISTMUFIATYTTFOWTTPWTTIAWIFAFD as an acronym. Mmm….catchy!
Well this is clearly Sixties, probably around 1967, and appears to at least belong to someone called Michel Molinare (although I can’t be sure if he is the photographer). But I think it’s a beautiful shot, and very inspirational at a time when I’m definitely in need of it. Still working hard on the first big batch of Autumn/Winter pieces for Vintage-a-Peel, and just generally dealing with life. I hope you can all bear with me, and I would just like to thank you all very, very profusely for the lovely comments you’ve been leaving me lately. They really do cheer me up immeasurably, and spur me on, so thank you….
Thank you thank you thank you, lovely anonymous reader (please let me know your name or online ‘alter-ego’ so I can say thank you properly) who commented on the previous post with this amazing vintage spot.
Sally Carr from Middle of the Road, wearing the iconic Mr Freedom hotpant outfit. It also came with the knee length variation, as worn by Olivia Newton John.
It was also worn by Miss Peelpants favourite, Katy Manning (Jo Grant in Doctor Who) for a few publicity shots, although I have no idea if she was in the hotpant or baseball short variation.
It was clearly one of their most popular pieces, and does occasionally turn up at auction (with an appropriately hefty price tag). I have never owned the complete ensemble, but I do have a polka dot ‘skater’ dress with matching frilly knickers by Mr Freedom, which I must photograph and share very soon.
Thank you, also, for introducing me to Sally Carr as a potential style icon. I haven’t found many decent photos online just yet, but she does seem to be a hardened hotpant girl (which is to be admired, worshipped and generally cooed over).
Shorts have been with us for some time now – “hot pants” making even starlets front page news – but the big question was whether they were here to stay, or were just a gimmick. Increasing sales seem to show that they are really catching on, and now the big stores are stocking them. For those with the youth and legs to enjoy them, we bring the very latest designs.
Outfit by Antony for Stirling Cooper. All menswear by YSL.
Shorts and top by Bus Stop. Shirt by Toto from Crowthers
Outfit by Diana Crawshaw for Mr Freedom
Top and scarf by Ossie Clark from Quorum. Shorts by Clobber
Outfit on left by Diorling at Christian Dior. Outfit on right by Sheilagh Blagden at Stirling Cooper
Outfit on left by Ritva. Outfit on right by Paul Reeves for Universal Witness.
I went to scan a fabulous hotpant-themed fashion spread in the Daily Telegraph Magazine from 1971, and instead I found myself scanning in menswear adverts. Whoops….still, dreamy or what? I am particularly loving Mr Brighton, above. Hotpants tomorrow….
Petticoat, September 1971
Bagsy the middle outfit with the purple boots on the right…..so there!
Liz Eggleston 