Style statements

Vintage Adverts: Wolsey tights go on and on and on

1970s, platforms, shoes, tights, Vintage Adverts

Scanned from Vogue, April 1973

Vintage Adverts: Sweetie Bra and Scantee Pantie

1960s, Honey Magazine, Illustrations, underwear, Vintage Adverts

Scanned from Honey, October 1968.

Such a lovely illustration and such sweetly innocent underwear-naming too. Ahhh, if only you got an “E.P. record” with all bra purchases these days…

Vintage Adverts: Carnival, 1972

1970s, glam rock, Inspirational Images, Make-up, platforms, shoes, Vintage Adverts

'Carnival' shoes advert from the Co-op. Scanned from Vogue, April 1972.

I will definitely be attempting to recreate that make-up at some point in the future, how incredible!

Inspirational Images: Moody Shoes

1970s, biba, charles jourdan, Inspirational Images, Patrick Hunt, Rayne, shoes, terry de havilland, Vogue, Walter Steiger

Photos by Patrick Hunt. Vogue, April 1972.

Just shoehorning some shoe porn in…

Featuring the great Terry de Havilland, Charles Jourdan, Walter Steiger, Rayne and Biba.

Vintage Adverts: The Restaurant Pyjama

1960s, janice wainwright, loungewear, underwear, Vintage Adverts, Vogue

Janice Wainwright for Golden Charm. Advert scanned from Vogue, April 1969.

Excitement abounds! My new lingerie and loungewear section of the website is taking shape behind the scenes and I am particularly excited about an upcoming Janice Wainwright for Golden Charm ensemble, not entirely dissimilar to this one.

I’m more into lounging in loungewear around the house than in a restaurant, but I suppose one only knows what one knows. The fact is that in 1969, people were so well-dressed when they went to dinner that you could be truly outrageous by wearing your pyjamas. In an age when nobody gets dressed for anything, well that is when you need to shock by wearing your finest frocks.

Inspirational Images: Swanky Modes, 1974

1970s, caroline baker, Harri Peccinotti, nova magazine, Swanky Modes, swimwear

Acetate jersey sunsuits with fine netting frills: leotard-style (top), £16.48, tutu-style (below), £14.52, both by Swanky Modes.

Styled by Caroline Baker. Photographed by Harri Peccinotti. Nova, May 1974.

Scanned by Miss Peelpants

Inspirational Illustrations: Painted Pin-ups by James Wedge

1970s, hand tinting, Inspirational Images, james wedge, miss selfridge, pin ups, swimwear

What is this mysterious alchemy that makes James Wedge’s version of the pin-up cliché somehow completely wonderful to my eyes? I think the hand-tinting is a nod to the fictitious nature of the pin-up, completely revelling in its own artifice and utilizing its superficiality to create something fresh – despite its inherently retrospective origins. Also, it doesn’t involve Photoshop. Modern photographers need to take serious note.

Advertisement for Miss Selfridge, photographed and tinted by James Wedge.

19 Magazine, May 1974. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.







Inspirational Images: Brighton Belles

1970s, brighton, cosmopolitan, janet reger, mitzi lorenz, underwear

 

Cosmopolitan, August 1974. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

Vintage Adverts: Miss Levi’s, 1974

1970s, cosmopolitan, flares, jeans, levis, Vintage Adverts

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, June 1974

Mild Sauce: Illustrated Titillation

1970s, cosmopolitan, Illustrations, mild sauce, underwear, Vintage Adverts

Is it just me, or are drawn sexy images generally sexier than photographed sexy images? Despite the completely ludicrous breast depictions, I’ve got a soft spot for these adverts. All scanned from various copies of Cosmopolitan, 1972-76.

The worrying thing is, women actually pay for breasts like these nowadays.