Mild Sauce: A Heel of a Height

1970s, caroline baker, Harri Peccinotti, Inspirational Images, mild sauce, nova magazine, yves saint laurent

ysl platforms peccinotti nova january 1974 s

All shoes by Yves Saint Laurent

Skyscraper heels announce a new, more refined shape for shoes in 1974. All the leading shoe designers endorse this feeling, though the heel heights vary. Yves Saint Laurent, that king of trendsetters, picks these – the highest. Thick platforms, the only real fashion story of the 70s so far, are out.

By Caroline Baker. Photographed by Harri Peccinotti.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Nova, January 1974.

Mild Sauce: The Sexually Aggressive Woman

1970s, cosmopolitan, Henry Wolf, mild sauce

"A sense of her own power, fed by strong feelings of her own worth, enables the highely physically motivated woman to play the game of sex her way..."

“A sense of her own power, fed by strong feelings of her own worth, enables the highly physically motivated woman to play the game of sex her way…”

Photographed by Henry Wolf.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, July 1975

Mild Sauce: “I was frigid”

1970s, caroline smith, cosmopolitan, Illustrations, Inspirational Images, mild sauce

Illustration by Caroline Smith (uncredited) for an article entitled ‘I was frigid’.

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, March 1973

Inspirational Illustrations: Sexual fantasies are important

1970s, cosmopolitan, Dick Ellescas, Illustrations, mild sauce

Illustrated by Dick Ellescas.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, February 1973

Vintage Adverts: Meet your Swedish Playmate

1970s, Abecita, Inspirational Images, mild sauce, vanity fair, Vintage Adverts

Abecita advert scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vanity Fair, April 1972

Mild Sauce: Few things get you there quicker than Ricard

1970s, mild sauce, Ricard, Vintage Adverts, Vogue

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vogue, October 1973

Vintage Adverts: Steiner. The first name in Photomontage

1970s, cosmopolitan, mild sauce, photomontage, Vintage Adverts

Oh I do love a bit of photomontage, and this Steiner hair advert is just glorious. It was certainly a favourite technique of James Wedge, but I’m not sure they’re quite his style – they’re rather more straightforward and less painted. Although that’s not to denigrate them; I love the simplicity of the layout, which belies how entirely fiendish it was to make pictures like this. We take such effects for granted in the age of photoshop, but these would have been incredibly time-consuming…

Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Cosmopolitan, October 1973