Platform Porn

1970s, Bilbo, harpers and queen, Inspirational Images, platforms, shoes
Photographed by Julian Allason

Photographed by Julian Allason

Why is the stripper platform (grotesquely curved with a spindly, wizened heel) currently so ubiquitous? There is little to recommend it, especially when compared with such beauties as these. I weep…

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Harpers and Queen, December 1971

Vintage Adverts: Miners are out to shock you

1970s, Hair and make-up, Honey Magazine, Jo Wood, Make-up, Miners, Vintage Adverts

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Featuring a very young Jo Wood, unless I’m very much mistaken.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Honey, December 1972

Inspirational Images: Ombre on the Rocks

1970s, Inspirational Images, Tom Grill
Scanned from The Art of Photographing Women by Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon

Photographed by Tom Grill

With heavy Roxy Music influence I suspect…

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from The Art of Photographing Women by Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon

Mensday: Bachelor Bedrooms

1970s, Bevis Hillier, caterine milinaire, cosmopolitan, Duggie Fields, interior design, Mensday, patrick lichfield, Sandy Whitelaw, Victor Lownes

Victor Lownes

Come now Cosmo, why so coy? Surely we all know they’re actually known as ‘Shag Pads’? I love all of them, but I’m particularly fond of Mr Lownes’s Casa Pupo bedspread, walnut headboard, push-button ‘gadgets’  and array of, ahem, ‘etchings’… Now we can see exactly how he managed to snare Roxy cover girl Marilyn Cole.

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, January 1973.

Duggie Fields

Duggie Fields

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Inspirational Images: Joan Collins in Bus Stop

1970s, british boutique movement, bus stop, cosmopolitan, Inspirational Images, joan collins, lee bender, norman eales
Photographed by Norman Eales

Photographed by Norman Eales

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, March 1973

Inspirational Images: Still life and white fur

1970s, Christian Carez, hand tinting, Inspirational Images

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Photographed by Christian Carez, publication unknown. Continuing my fascination with hand-tinted photographs.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from the Photography Year Book 1971

Inspirational Images: Floating daisies on the beach

1970s, celia birtwell, Inspirational Images, ossie clark

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Photographed by François Gillet (Bournemouth College of Art)

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from the British Journal of Photography Annual 1972.

New listings: Ossie Clark – The Real Deal

1970s, bags, Barker, british boutique movement, Chenille, david silverman, frank usher, jean varon, john bates, Jon Adam, kurt geiger, Manfield, ossie clark, Renata, Tadashi

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I only sell the originals, y’know. There are still many more listings to come, so keep your eyes peeled over on the Vintage-a-Peel facebook page.

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Mild Sauce: Jilly Johnson in Janet Reger

1970s, Bob Carlos Clarke, Inspirational Images, janet reger, jilly johnson, mild sauce, underwear

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Expect more posts with more saucy Janet Reger catalogue goodness, but to begin with – Jilly Johnson.

(date unknown but I’m guessing ’79-’80)

Photographed by Bob Carlos Clarke. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

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Inspirational Images: Waves of wine and roses

1970s, barry lategan, Inspirational Images, Joan Hall, Vogue

Collage by Joan Hall/Barry Lategan

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vogue, September 1972