I’ll take a Dorabelle T in Campari please!
I blogged about this advert ages ago, because she’s wearing a Jean Varon dress in the final picture. But at that point I didn’t recognise the model! How remiss of me. Scanned from Nova, November 1970, but I’m pretty sure it was an older advert than that.
1970
It’s not what you show it’s the way that you show it. Amen to that. Charnos lingerie is amongst my very favourite…
Scanned from Petticoat, April 1970
Janet Reger
More James Wedge fabulousness. I’m always delighted to find and scan a ‘new’ James Wedge photoshoot, and this one is adorable, despite lacking the trademark Wedge hand-tinted touch.
You never know when next you may stand revealed in the full glory of your underwear. Will it stand the test? Bare with us and we’ll show you how to steal even the most embarrassing scenes in these glamorous, seductive undies-to-get-caught-in.
Honey. December 1972.
Images scanned by Miss Peelpants
Dress from Browns, pants by Warners
Janet Reger
Janet Reger
Madeleine Foundations
Mary Quant
Maidenform
…can I please send off for these goodies?
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Illustration by Ken Laidlaw. Scanned from Petticoat, January 1973.
Leaf design bra (£2.75) and pants (90p) by Triumph
Underwear need not just be functional, it can be beautiful too. So with fashion becoming ladylike on top, perhaps it’s time to show some style and imagination on what you wear underneath.
From Honey magazine, December 1974. Photos by Monty Coles.
I want it all.
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Twenties-style slip by Proper Pride (£4.35)
Cami-knickers by Janet Reger (£19.50)
Dubonnet. Scanned from Vogue, November 1972
Hilarious two-page spread from Flair Magazine, January 1971.
It’s easy to forget just how ludicrously over-hyped the whole mini, midi, maxi debate was as it “raged” through the United Kingdom in the late Sixties, early Seventies. Rather like similarly ludicrous ‘debates’ and ‘trends’ of the here and now, although I suspect I will feel more queasy when, in my Sixties, I’m re-reading articles about the merits of wearing pyjamas in public, skinny jeans (yes, they suit everyone…no, wait, they don’t suit everyone. Bring back the flare!) and the whole harem pant (a.k.a Poo-catcher) debacle. Actually, wait, they all make me feel queasy now anyway.
I wish modern newspapers would always make sure to get the opinion of a ‘freaked out hippie’, a ‘pipe smoker’ and a ‘retired boozer’, it would make life far more enjoyable.
Dress by Thea Porter. Photographed by Norman Eales for Harpers and Queen, December 1971.
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