Vintage Adverts: Don’t be vague

1970s, hair, Inspirational Images, sunday times magazine, Vintage Adverts

Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, June 1971

Personally, I need absolutely no encouragement…

Vintage Adverts: Carnival, 1972

1970s, glam rock, Inspirational Images, Make-up, platforms, shoes, Vintage Adverts

'Carnival' shoes advert from the Co-op. Scanned from Vogue, April 1972.

I will definitely be attempting to recreate that make-up at some point in the future, how incredible!

Inspirational Images: Your health too, Mr Bottomley

1970s, barbara daly, caroline baker, chelsea cobbler, hans feurer, Inspirational Images, mary quant, mild sauce, nostalgia, nova magazine, tights

Nova, February 1972

One of my favourite images from a Vargas-inspired spread in Nova, photographed by Hans Feurer. I will scan the others in time, but they all deserve solo appreciation. I think I would actually give my firstborn for those Chelsea Cobbler shoes. Red leather AND stars? Fetch my smelling salts!

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, there is something about the Seventies take on Forties style (and particularly pin-ups) which I find infinitely more appealing than the originals or the tired current trend for such things.

It takes all the glamour and sauce, but gives it that subversive, pop art-esque treatment so typical of designers like Tommy Roberts, Terry de Havilland and Rae Spencer-Cullen for Miss Mouse (amongst so many other Vintage-a-Peel favourites). The models look quirky, confident and very knowing; I never get a sense of exploitation or submission. Even the tagline ‘exploitation can be fun’ is perfectly pitched and mocking both the exploiters and the prudes. Viva la Seventies!

Ika Hindley in Cosmopolitan, 1973

1970s, annacat, chelsea cobbler, cosmopolitan, david montgomery, ika hindley, Inspirational Images, pierre la roche, sarah frearson

From the same spread in Cosmopolitan as the Gabrielle Drake post, and eagle-eyed readers might recall that we have seen Ika Hindley before… There are still a few beauties to come, but I decided they were all worthy of their own post.

The spread was styled by Deirdre McSharry and she is really speaking my sartorial language. Dress by Annacat, shoes by Chelsea Cobbler and hat by Sarah Frearson. Make-up is by Pierre LaRoche (Bowie’s make-up artist and also for the Rocky Horror Picture Show) for Helena Rubenstein.

Cosmopolitan, June 1973. Photographed by David Montgomery. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

“She arrived in the studio like an early Garbo, plain and drab. One hour and much make-up later she is fashion’s own superstar”.

Ouch.

Inspirational Images: Beauty Studies by James Wedge

1970s, clowns, hand tinting, Inspirational Images, james wedge, Make-up, pierrot

Hauntingly beautiful. I can never, ever resist a photoshoot inspired by clowns. (Indeed, Mr Wedge seems to have made them something of a trademark!) That make-up, that neck ruff…

Scanned from Painted Ladies: Art of Hand Colouring in Photography by James Wedge.

Inspirational Images: Hair

1960s, barry lategan, hair, Inspirational Images, Vogue

Photographed by Barry Lategan. Vogue, April 1969.

Inspirational Images: Crowning Glory

1970s, hair, john swannell, pre-raphaelite, Vogue

Photos by John Swannell. Vogue, December 1977. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

Random Ossies in Adverts: California by Max Factor

1970s, Make-up, nova magazine, ossie clark, Random Ossies in Adverts, Vintage Adverts

It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘Random Ossies in Adverts’ post, so it was high time I found another one. Bottom left, definitely one of my holy grail pieces.