Mensday

Mensday: Winner takes all

19 magazine, 1960s, Mensday, Michael Winner, the jokers
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from 19, April 1969

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from 19, April 1969

A slightly belated RIP to Michael Winner. While he became something of a national joke/treasure/pompous buffoon in his later life, I maintain that his early films show a brilliance which very few people appreciate. The Jokers and I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘isname are two of my most favourite films of that period, the latter has a depth which few people would or could ever associate with Winner. Also, thanks to him, I have some prime Oliver Reed lusting material. I salute you Sir and offer my greatest respect and condolences.

I also have a weakness for Parting Shots. I mean, how can you argue with a cast list that includes Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley, Oliver Reed, Gareth Hunt, Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant? You can’t.

Mensday: Biba Boy

1970s, barbara hulanicki, Barbara Hulanicki, biba, Edward de Vere Hunt, Johnny Dewe Matthews, Mensday
Photographed by Johnny Dewe Matthews

Photographed by Johnny Dewe Matthews

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, January 1975

I bet he was a popular guy…

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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Mensday: Ties Gone By

cosmopolitan, Illustrations, McKinley Howell, Mensday, menswear, mild sauce

Drawing by McKinley Howell

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, September 1975

Guy Day: When a man dreams of lips…

1970s, cosmopolitan, Make-up, Mensday, Vintage Adverts

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, June 1972

I’m ignoring the filthy overtones of this advert – and his moustache – to enjoy the shagpile carpet and general interior decor amazingness…

p.s Thank you all for your amazing feedback and comments on the Ossie/Debenhams post the other day. I feel like I used my last vestiges of energy in writing it, and I haven’t really recovered enough to respond to comments yet. But please know that it means a lot to me, and you’re all very lovely.

Mensday: A man can’t go wrong in a Tonik suit

1960s, Mensday, menswear, Tonik, Vintage Adverts, Vogue

Scanned from Men in Vogue, November 1966

Never mind a binder full of women, this guy has got one in a cage! Baffling copy as ever from mid-Sixties menswear advertising. I can’t help but love it…

Mensday: Ruff and Tuff

1970s, Mensday, menswear, sunday times magazine, Vintage Adverts

Flagrance? You’re really going down that route? Hmm.

Both scanned from the same copy of The Sunday Times Magazine. I guess ruffled dress shirts were really doing it for the ladies in 1973*.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from The Sunday Times Magazine, December 1973

*They still do it for this lady in 2012, but I reckon you all know me well enough to have guessed that…

Mensday: Cosak Spells Action

1960s, Mensday, menswear, nova magazine, space age, Vintage Adverts

Scanned from Nova, June 1967

Actually I think you’ll find it spells ‘Cosak’, but never mind…

‘Think about COSAK for light relief’, combined with that suspicious looking pump thing they’re holding…? I’m not even going to fall into that dirty mind trap!

See also “Cosak is orbiting“

Guy Day: What I Want in a Wife

1970s, Mensday, mr fish, oliver reed, peter wyngarde

Gyles Brandreth; David Broome; Mark Caine; Robert Carrier; Max Clendenning; Tom Courtenay; Roger Collins; Brian Strange; Michael Fish; Benny Hill; John Hurt; Simon Jenkins; Eddie Kulukundis.

Your eyes do not deceive you. A ‘What I want in a wife’ article is not a natural place you might expect to see either Peter Wyngarde or Ian McKellan’s face, but… this was 1972, so here they are.

As for Oliver Reed? Well, let’s just say I’m not surprised…

“Femininity is important. I hate the bull-dyke Women’s Lib type of bird. The best women for me are those who have plenty of drive but in the end like to be dominated. I like a girl who can understand and then tolerate me and, above all, she must have good knockers.”

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, April 1972.

John Lill; Lord Lyell; Ian McKellan; Ron Moody; Tim Nicholls; Simon Oates; Brian Patten; Lance Percival; Jimmy Saville; Ned Sherrin; Sidney Shipton; Johnnie Silvo; Joachim Stein; Dave Cash; Max de Trense; Derek Underwood; Jack Wild; Oliver Reed.

John Bentley; Earl of Lichfield; Georgie Fame; John Pitman; Victor Behrens; Karl Green; Michael Whittaker; Peter Wyngarde; John Peel.

 

Mensday: Bowlers, brollies and birds

1970s, avengers, Bowler hats, Inspirational Images, Mensday, menswear, minis

Photo by W. E. Carden

“The battle of the sexes in England, land of stiff upper lips and furled umbrellas – a land, in short, of Ladies and Gentlemen. Some are here seen at an Old Comrades Association parade in London’s Hyde Park in the merry month of May, where the keen eye – and camera – of W. E. Carden,  A.R.P.S. noticed this amusing little vignette.”

Scanned from Photography Year Book, 1971.

I feel an Avengers episode coming on…