Vintage Adverts: Jourdan by Bourdin

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Advert for Charles Jourdan shoes. Photographed by Guy Bourdin, 1974.

Inspirational Images: Harpers and Queen, May 1976

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Knockout, bareback dresses, draped and slung. 

Above, dress by Yuki. Below, dress by Benny Ong.

Photos by Francois Lamy. Harpers and Queen, May 1976.

Body-hugging dresses on tiny straps. 

Above, dress by Gianni Versace for Genny. Below, dress by Yves Saint Laurent.

Inspirational Images: Marie Helvin, 1971

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Marie Helvin in a Jeff Banks dress, 1971. Photo by Tony Moussoulides.

Inspirational Images: Making up to Autumn

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Illustrating an article titled 'We're Making up to Autumn'.

We are the dreamers of dreams

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By Biba, £6 10s

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Arthur O’Shaughnessy
I’ve been having incredibly vivid, bizarre dreams lately, and I’m in the middle of watching Twin Peaks, so anything dream-related is fascinating to me. Some beautiful, dreamlike images from Honey Magazine, August 1968. Photos by David Hurn.

By Veronica Marsh for Hunt & Co., 5½ gns

By Veronica Marsh for Hunt & Co., 79s. 11d.

By Angela Gore, 39s. 6d.

But in a dream the other night
I saw this coastline from the sea
And felt the breakers plunging white
Their weight of waters over me.
Greenaway by John Betjeman                           

Wunderlich in Pink

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Oh lordy. I cannot believe how long it’s been since I last blogged, nor how sporadic my blogging has been. It’s been one of the most all-consuming jobs I’ve done in a long while, and left me more than a little numb inside. Only the thought of getting back to blogging and vintage-ing has kept me going!

So I’m easing myself back in gently (I finish tomorrow night, thank goodness) with a little toe-in-the-water blog post.

I like to think of myself as someone who is developing a nice collection of tasty vinyl (mainly Roxy Music and Fox recently…I’m moving on to Living in a Box next, just to maintain the rhyme), of course. But occasionally I simply have to buy something just for the amazing cover. Everyone knows the Top of the Pops albums, and their variations, so I try to scout out the more unusual ones. Although it’s hard to justify beyond ‘it’s for the blog’ and then I forget to scan them in. Like this one. Someone had obviously had a major Wunderlich clearout, but I couldn’t justify buying a whole bunch of dodgy-looking Seventies women at £1.50 a pop. So I picked my favourite, and she’s definitely the least dodgy-looking. She’s pretty incredible, to be honest, and I just couldn’t get over the pinkness. Enjoy!

Inspirational Images: Moon Heart

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Simply beautiful photo by Sarah Moon from Vogue, June 1974.

Inspirational Images: Steel Appeal, 1970

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Ahhhh, good old British Steel. You wouldn’t have thought that the British Steel Corporation would have been able to sex-up their image through print advertising, and I would certainly never have imagined it could look so downright amazing.

Jewellery specially created for BSC by Loughborough College of Art and Design.

The Sunday Times Magazine, August 2nd 1970. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

Inspirational Images: Rita Hayworth

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Scanned from ‘Screen Goddesses’ by Tom Hutchinson

Inspirational Images: The Passion by Oliviero Toscani

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Scanned from Masterpieces of Erotic Photography. I assumed it was a James Wedge set when I first flicked through the book!