Leaf design bra (£2.75) and pants (90p) by Triumph
Underwear need not just be functional, it can be beautiful too. So with fashion becoming ladylike on top, perhaps it’s time to show some style and imagination on what you wear underneath.
From Honey magazine, December 1974. Photos by Monty Coles.
I want it all.
Images scanned by Miss Peelpants
Twenties-style slip by Proper Pride (£4.35)
Cami-knickers by Janet Reger (£19.50)
Diana and costume designer Alun Hughes
I came across this series of photos ages ago, and there’s something about the sheer volume of them which entertains me greatly. She looks like she’s having a jolly good time, larking around with the random chaps she has been thrown together with in the studio. I think they were mainly promotional photos for her outfits so, other than costume designer Alun Hughes, I guess the guys were just there for slightly unhinged, eccentric, Avengerland good measure…
Diana with British boxer Billy Walker
Diana with Avengers stunt coordinator Ray Austin (left)
Diana with jockey Josh Gifford
Plus rogue bottom-spanking photo with unidentified gentleman…
Dubonnet. Scanned from Vogue, November 1972
From December 1970. I love me some Chelsea Girl, and this advert is just perfection with the colours, the styling, the design… it even makes me half-fancy a white wig! I think I’ll leave it at the half-fancying stage though…
…for providing me with the only Christmas songs I can deal with, aside from certain carols. I can’t even take the Nutcracker suite due to extreme over-familiarity. So the only ones I can really bear are from the Seventies. I’m not anti-Christmas, I am merely anti-schmaltz.
Plus bonus Legs and Co Christmas routine to ‘Funky Town’. I would like a fairy dressed like them on top of my Christmas tree, as would, I suspect, most men…
Incredible illustration about hosting a party (I’m assuming by Malcolm Bird) scanned from Petticoat, December 1968.
Scanned from Vogue, November 1967.
Incredible clothes by Sally Tuffin, incredible photographs by Mr James Wedge; appealing to my interest in all things clown-ish. I love this photoshoot, even more because I have the blue cape on the picture above. Sadly, the pleats have somewhat fallen out (perhaps someone washed it?) and I have no idea how to put them back in again. Bums. Any advice welcomed…
Liz Eggleston 