Advert for designer Ann Green. Whose address is just a few doors down from Janice Wainwright’s building in Poland Street (recently demolished I believe, don’t even get me started!).
Scanned from 19 Magazine, April 1974.
We can cope with the cost of living shooting up, but if the cost of looking good becomes more than we can afford, we’ll despair. It’s not just the hothouse cosmetic brands that are so expensive now, even the middle-of-the-road ones can set you back nearly £1 an item. We asked Boots 17 and Outdoor Girl to create, specially for us, two really cheap New Faces for Spring. Here they are, and they aren’t just cheap, they’re very pretty too.
Boots 17 came up with an expensive-looking browny/beige Face for only 94p. It goes like this: Nearskin Foundation in Beige, 29p. Pearly Cream Shadow in Brown Smudge, 19p. Brown Runproof Mascara, 29p. Try-Size Lipstick in Toffee Apple, 17p.
Outdoor Girl suggested a much paler look. The total cost comes to £1.03 but that includes a blusher —if you can’t afford it, just use lipstick on your cheeks. Silky Touch Foundation in Fair, 25p. Cream Blusher in Cameo, 19p. Black Block Mascara, 20p. Pistachio Green Matte Shadow, 19p. Try Size Lipstick in Star Performer (a lovely soft rusty brown), 20p.
Illustration by Lynn Gray
Scanned from Honey, April 1976.
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.
“Art mystification is finished. We don’t like artists’ categories. We are painters, and we have chosen fashion because it is a very, very lively manifestation, and we want to make free things, to create all the possibilities, in the language of fashion.” Pablo and Delia, looking like creatures of Bavarian fantasy, made to live in Mad Ludwig’s castles, come, in fact, all smiles, irrepressible, from Argentina. “But what we do is not necessary there,” so they have wandered through Paris, New York and now London, with their vision of a splendoured exotic world, inhabited by “caricature people”. They make belts and bags of imaginary land-scapes, rainbow-coloured shoes and leathers. They met at art school in Buenos Aires, and were doing environments, which Laurence Alloway praised, of craters and clouds, stars and flowers and girl astronauts. They started an underground fashion magazine, which must have been very much the first of its kind, and plan to do the same here in London. They are craftsmen, “If you can’t make with your hands what you want, you must be an industrial manufacturer, and that’s bad for your face —you lose it.” They are, as they say in Spanish, very “yiyish”. “That means,” says Pablo with a smile, “very groovy.”
Model is Grace Coddington.
Illustration by Delia and Pablo.
Photographed by Barry Lategan.
Scanned from Vogue, April 1st 1970.
Illustration for an extract of a book ‘Living Room’ by Sol Stein.
Illustration by Gillian Zeiner.
Scanned from Cosmopolitan, October 1974.
Illustration accompanying a short story titled ‘Only One Joe’.
Illustrated by Graham Rogers.
Scanned from Petticoat, 21st December 1968.
Illustrated by Caroline Smith.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, September 1968.
The only Earlybird pieces I have encountered don’t really warrant such a sexy illustration, but it’s always nice to flesh out a lesser known boutique label when you can! The advert accompanies a feature on boutiques in the Fulham Road, with a lovely lengthy description of both Laura Ashley and Boston-151 amongst others.
You can begin on the outskirts of Brompton Village, just past Habitat, with the best of fashion, then move on for miles—literally—past spaghetti, spaghetti, hamburgers, junk and tortoises, the Chelsea Supporters’ Club and Fulham Broadway, until you arrive at Pollyanna’s excellent children’s clothes, 660; The East & West Superette, at 694, continental groceries; Fulham Surplus Stores, 686, bargains like army surplus arctic fleecy coat linings at £5.
Clothes you really want to own: Laura Ashley, 157, a big barn of remarkably low-priced things—Jacqui Smale’s demure print dresses, fine white tucked camisole petticoats, or nightdresses, shirts, print and plain velveteen and corduroy in colours of cloudy blue, dull purple, faded rose made into baggy knickerbockers, capes, shirts.
Boston-151, 151, is Gundrun Boston’s new beautiful clothes place, “filled with all the things I’d like to buy and never can find”. The functional chic workshop design is by Michael Chow. big lacquered tin central changing room, black mirror, clothes easy to look at and get at, a sewing lady sewing away instead of window dressing. Watch for: incredible hand-sewn clothes by Carlos Arias, his peasant print silk and cotton shirts, panne velvet ones too with tasselled ribbons, Mohammedan bloomers and boleros, soft dishcloth crochet dresses inset with Ibiza embroidery. These have clinging tops and flowing skirts and you tie yourself in (he practically never uses zips). There are Turkish mixed prints of marvellous cut, caftans made from rare Edwardian and Twenties fabrics. Kaffe Fassett’s macrame work, wool and string chokers and belts, old stones, ivory elephants threaded in,
hours of work. Boston & Kaffe’s subtle patterned knits, kimonos, sweaters, skirts; Chloe and Jean Muir. Lillian Delevoryas’ picture patchworked clothes. Linen shepherd smocks and jackets with velvet binding. Crochet cloche hats and ties where almost every stitch changes colour. Sexy seamless sweaters. Missoni knitted things from Milan, T-shirts, skirts and trousers so light you can wear several at once, and Kaffe Fassett evolves their colour schemes so you can imagine how lovely they are. Classic tailored trousers. Brown string butchers’ bags. Linen duffle bags stencilled with Boston-151 and made up in the workshops at Wormwood Scrubs. Valerie Goad, 185-7, has grown. She has 30 designs and more of best dresses, midi and long, shirts that match skirts and knickerbockers. There are Liberty wools, plain and print velvets and voile. Everything can be made to measure for a few guineas more, dresses, for instance, are from 19 gns (£19.95). Rene Aubrey, 122, 370 4745, hairdresser, has just opened a men’s salon next door. Early Bird, 20 Park Walk, has long velvet dresses, ruched sleeves, frilly cuffs, or hooded. All washable, 15 gns (£15.75).
Dean Rogers, 60, is a new man’s shop, with excellent-fitting trousers, velvets, tweed, cashmere, home-spun knitting, good belts and shirts. They open until 10.30 pm. Piero de Monzi, 70, is a double-fronted elegant shop with classic French and Italian clothes for men and women. Shirts from 5 gns (15.25) in delicate prints, exuberant Ken Scott prints, plain voiles, fine jerseys. Daniel Hechter suede and fleece greatcoats. Belts from 4 gns (£4.20), weighty affairs of hide and snake and brass. Suits, jackets, trousers, in bird’s eye tweed, velvet, gabardine, denim. Italian shoes, 16 gns (116.80). Next month an early spring fall of languid V de V clothes, moons, stars, wavy bands and boats knitted in. One partner, Alain Mertens, has opened the DM Gallery next door, 72, with Paolozzi, Hockney, multiple multiples, chic Italian design as in the perfect transistor. Imogens, 274, is ethnic: Palestinian embroidered wedding dresses, Kurtas, burnooses, shawls, belts, Israeli glass, Middle Eastern rugs and trinkets.
Afew months ago Kjeld Jacobsen opened Danish Silver Designs at 84. He’s a goldsmith turned business man, the jewellery shown comes from about 10 workshops in Den-mark and has a nordic coolness—strange pale stones, precise curves and spirals, 80 per cent in silver, a little gold. Special orders are dealt with by Jens Torp who can be seen at work through a window in the back of the showroom; this keeps the customers happy while they wait. Prices from £24100. Opposite the Queen’s Elm pub is that smart new block. There’s Alistair Colvin, 116, decorator and antique dealer, a drawing-room-sized shop, bizarre and interesting pieces. Zarach, 110. They’re the Sander Mirror Company, with elegant modern design grafted on. Downstairs there’s a new mirror showroom, looking glass in fifteen shades, antiqued, smoky, marbled, tortoiseshell, almost any effect -you could wish for, from £3 per square foot. Upstairs, with David Hicks black and white carpet, royal tartan blue walls, are beautifully designed things from Italy like Perspex ice buckets, boxes, clocks, spot lamps; status bibelots, work by Ciancimino, Billy McCarty, Tony Stubbin, Jon Bannen-berg, all Hicks carpets of course. Look out for the Italian gong chair. Rubber stretched on a round chrome frame and comfortable.
Travelling on to the heart of the Fulham Road, Charles Quinlan, 309, does upholstery work, recaning, polishing, loose covers and curtains. Tulleys, 289, have everything and endless windows of second-hand furniture, pale ranks of calico-covered sofas and chairs. Humpherson, 186, are the builders’ merchants who have a three-floor showhouse of bathrooms and kitchens. Solarbo, 230, make pelmets, curtain rails, cupboards, sliding doors, louvred doors (made to measure for no extra cost, and in do-it-yourself kits), a flexible shelf and drawer storage system with clear plastic or white wire baskets. Jonathan Minns, 1a Hollywood Road, a few feet off the Fulham Road, is a fascinating machinery shop, industrial and scientific antiquities, model ships, traction engines, locomotives like Birmingham Piddlers, extraordinary machines for extraordinary work like stitching army tents in Poona. All serious stuff and remarkably pleasing to look at. If Mr Minns isn’t driving traction engines at 6 mph through the countryside, or setting up museums with his new company Industrial Originals, he’ll be in the shop to explain it all. Hollywood [a.k.a The Hollywood Clothes Shop], 10 Hollywood Road, has ravishing thirties and forties clothes. From here down to Stamford Bridge are small nests of antique shops. Among the most interesting: Goldsworthy, 346, for a pair of gilded Siamese umbrellas. Stephen Long, 348, with painted bamboo, doll’s house furniture, tapestry bell pulls, bits of this and that, biscuit tins, patchwork quilts, books on bezique and cribbage, all the charming funny household paraphernalia of the past 150 years. Arthur Brown, 392-400, has everything. Perce Rye, 495, has Invincible Motor Policies.
And go back to Finchs, 190, for a drink, to find the village nucleus of excellent food shops and eating places. Hazel’s, 172, sell the finest fruits and vegetables. There are specialists in kebabs, ice-creams, pizzas, traditional English fare (as in Hungry Horse, 196). If you don’t wish to queue for hours outside The Great American Disaster, 325, for the greatest hamburgers and milkshakes this side of the Atlantic, then try the new Parsons Café Royal & Old Spaghetti Factory, 311: spaghetti, choice of six sauces, garlic, bread and salad for 9s (45p).
Text by Antonia Williams.
Scanned from Vogue, February 1971.
Sinuous straps, wedgy heels and an all-time comeback for soft summer suede in any number of wide-eye summer shades. Shoes that daren’t be just practical — not now there’s so much happening in the clothes line above! With the sort of prices shown here, any girl can take out enough insurance to make sure her footwear not only keeps pace with the rest of her wardrobe, but even makes it that much more special as well!
Illustrations by Leslie Chapman.
Scanned from Petticoat, 20th March 1971.
I would love those Terry de Havilland shoes in my stocking, please!
Illustration by Hazel Gomes.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, December 1975.
Liz Eggleston 