A very sweet idea for livening up plain knitted or felt hats – but careful with felt because the pinholes might stick around once you remove the brooches. I have actually just bought a beautiful crocheted cloche myself (a move to the coast requires forward planning when you have long hair!) so the top picture is making me long for the proper cold days of December and January. I know, I know, je suis étrange…
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Petticoat, October 1973, Photos by Bill Klein.
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from Vogue, September 1970
Scanned from Look In, 12 June 1976
Umm. Pink tights and green platforms? Yes please!
Noosha just gets more and more spectacular…
Scanned from Over 21, September 1972. Photographed by Christian Larroque.
Featuring superbabe Jilly Johnson, and formerly belonging to a dymo-wielding dude named ‘Ross’, I cannot help but covet the matching silver bikini/platform shoe combination on the reverse side. Or in the words of the great Tarkus, B-Side.
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…
I had three reasons to buy this glorious book from 1979: the beautiful illustrations (which I will scan at a later date), a vague idea that it might be rather cool to start making Seventies-style lingerie and lastly, that the photos within are quite spectacular. Of course, my definition of spectacular is slightly different to many people, but there are plenty of levels on which you can enjoy them.
(Published by Mills & Boon, no less!)
Unisex sleepsuits
Victorian negligee
Bra and slip
Strapless corselette
Nightwear into evening wear
Bless. I love the idea of mail order punks, especially amusing given that this advertisement is scanned from the back of a copy of Smash Hits. Having said that though, I would dearly love one of those Adam and the Ants t-shirts. Show me the way to the time travelling postbox please!
Scanned from Smash Hits, June 1980.
Blouse by Deborah and Clare. Skirt by Suliman.
Photographed by Elisabeth Novick. Vogue, June 1971.
Blouse by Margit Brandt for Scorpio. Skirt by Travers Tempos.
Blouse by Jasper.
Left by Gossard. Right by Marks and Spencer.
A Little More Than Nothing
I must confess that I often find myself ironing in my underwear. Likewise cooking and cleaning. Seems a shame to get things dirty and creased, or myself all hot and bothered, whilst doing household chores. I fear this ‘outs’ me as rather anally retentive as far as clothes are concerned but, I don’t imagine it comes as much of a surprise to anyone.
The other thing with ironing is that I am often ironing a particular outfit at the last minute (having changed my mind fifteen times already…) and it needs to be instantly yanked on while I fly out of the door (having checked twenty times that the iron is turned off. Yes, I am also OCD). So I smiled a smile of familiarity when I saw these gorgeous photographs by Steve Hiett for Flair Magazine.
As always, Seventies undies completely trump all modern underwear as far as I am concerned…
Photographed by Steve Hiett. Scanned from Flair, August 1972
Left by Margit Brandt for Femilet. Right by Warners.
Left by Abecita. Right by Dorothy Perkins.
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