
An age-old game! However well-dressed you are, you’ll always wonder whether her dress-sense is better. Pretty and pastel; cool and chic. Which one’s you?
Photographed by Didier Duval.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, September 1972.




An age-old game! However well-dressed you are, you’ll always wonder whether her dress-sense is better. Pretty and pastel; cool and chic. Which one’s you?
Photographed by Didier Duval.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, September 1972.




Nice, nice knitwear in new shapes and intricate patterns that have that ‘just off Granny’s needles’ look that most of us couldn’t comprehend making ourselves. Easier to buy it, and well worth the price.
Model is Vivienne Lynn.
Photographed by Harri Peccinotti.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, November 1971.



No need, any longer, to be just another bedraggled figure, walking in the rain. Take a long look at the macs we’ve chosen for you – six glamorous shapes to help you look your best. Now you, too, can go singing in the rain!
Illustrations by Andrew Holmes.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, October 1975.


Be the star of the office party, look chic for cocktails or choose from the ‘Fifties, ‘Sixties and ‘Seventies to stun everyone around. We’ve picked lots of exciting clothes for you to wear at whatever Christmas festivities you are invited to. Go on — take our advice — make a dramatic entrance.
Hair by Carol at Molton Brown.
Photographed by Graham Hughes
Scanned from 19 Magazine, December 1975.



Fresh and pretty is the look you should aim for this summer, with maybe an inch or two of knee bravely peeping out from under floral prints on crepe de Chine or crisp cotton. Match your dress with brightly coloured tights and wear straw hats adorned with bunches of fruit and flowers, or a silk scarf and wedge shoes to complete your summer ensemble.
Photographed by Duc.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, June 1971.






Yves St. Laurent’s ‘Blast From The Past’ award is taken by the blazer. Fashioned a la Dietrich, casual but smart, it looks especially good with shorts, hot-coloured tights and long knee-socks, or pleated skirts. The best choice is plain white, black or red; or hot checks and stripes.
A superb editorial, giving us an insight into the short-lived but legendary Hollywood Clothes Shop and The Purple Shop in Antiquarius (which I feel like I’m regularly crediting in other posts on here) and also designer David Mellor’s shop. It also has the unusual element of every price being given in new and old money – with decimalisation having been introduced in February of the same year. I’m surprised I don’t see this a lot more in editorials from 1971.
Modelled by Sue Baloo
Styled by Norma Moriceau.
Photographed by Michael Berkofsky.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, May 1971.








A brilliant line-up of the now legendary Ritva jumpers, designed by four of the most well-known British artists of the time, and a series of shirts by Jasper with Erté prints. Menswear? Pah! I’ll take them all please!
Fashion by Erica Crome.
Photographed by Christa Peters.
Scanned from Vogue, December 1971.


There is a licence to touch all the clothes on these pages. There is not a single trad, scratchy, thornproof tweed among any of the frankly tactile silks, angoras and flannels of autumn. Jerseys and pearls and sensible shoes were once the uniform of the WI. Now, (well) kept ladies whose fingers smell of “Cabochard” rather than cabbage, are pressing their flannel bags, having their pearls restrung and are wearing them with shirts so unbuttoned they could catch pneumonia – and heels high enough to rise above the muddiest farmyard. They are taking to pleated kilts, and cashmere sweaters so tight they’d enliven the dullest game of backgammon. Dinner dresses are back in style, and I do mean back down as far as you can go. Properly and provocatively dressed, a weekend in the country might be more fun than you think.
Hair arranged for all pictures by Carl of Molton Brown.
Fashion by Deirdre McSharry.
Photographed by John Kelly.
Scanned from Cosmopolitan, October 1972.








The main attraction of this summer’s printed dress is their little-girl, Sunday-best quality. The star fabric is floral crepe-de-Chine, now beautifully revived, featuring softly shaped skirts, Peter Pan collars and puff sleeves.
Another flawless example of early Seventies nostalgia for the Thirties and Forties, which might seem frivolous or twee if it wasn’t in the talented hands of Mr Peccinotti.
Photographed by Harri Peccinotti.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, March 1971.





Brighter and brighter, the new brand of knits is coming. Bolder than ever, with huge batwing sleeves, flaring kimono arms and rainbow stripes. Piled on top of one another or over a striking shirt – without any doubt the greatest knits ever seen.
I don’t know about you, but clown and circus-influenced editorials are one of my favourite themes and really quite a staple of the late Sixties and early Seventies youth magazine boom.
Photographed at Foire & Cirque de Rancy, France.
Photographed by Alain Walch.
Scanned from Honey, February 1972.


