Scanned from Flair, June 1970.
Lee Cooper advert
Scanned from Cosmopolitan, June 1973
1973
Making a lady play strip poker in a halter neck dress is poor sportsmanship on the part of Monsieur Sleazy here…
Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, February 21st 1971
It never ceases to amaze me just how widespread the influence of psychedelia was in the advertising world. Who would have thought that it would be used to sell tyres?
Scanned from Woman’s Own, October 22nd 1966
Ok, cats, I’m going to willingly lose cool points and confess that I had to look up what the hell ‘Ginchiest‘ means. (There’s even a song.) I can’t always immediately ‘get’ this kind of groovy talk. It was hard enough watching Beat Girl, daddy-o…
Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, June 1971
Personally, I need absolutely no encouragement…
Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, March 1972
Phwoar. Such a sexy sofa. In fact, I want everything in that photo. The outfit she’s wearing, the dog, the shagpile carpet, the sofa, the glass doors and so on…
One day, it will be mine!
Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, March 23 1969
The Sunday Times Magazine, March 24th 1974
Those with a long memory might remember this as a Biba dress worn by Paula Wilcox in Man About The House (and also by Miss Peelpants occasionally around the house, as well as out of it…). I’m always inexplicably delighted to spot pieces I own or recognise in adverts of the time, although I think one for nutty chocolates has got to be a first…
Photo by Alec Murray
Scanned from The Sunday Times Magazine, April 13th 1969
‘No other cloth bears itself with such irreproachable distinction or touches women with such cavalier effectiveness that even the musketress must be disarmed eventually’.
What guff! But I do envy her entire outfit, hat included…
Liz Eggleston 