Au revoir stinky old 2011. Happy New Lear!
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: amanda lear, fashion icons, mild sauce, seventies fashion 2 Comments »
As is now my tradition, for I really rather loathe the whole New Year ‘thing’ with a passion, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Lear with a mini-picture spam of new Amanda pictures I’ve seen this year. Several have been pilfered from the fabulous Mr Tarkus. Merci!
Loungerie
Posted: December 30, 2011 Filed under: biba, Honey Magazine, janet reger, monty coles, seventies fashion, underwear 2 Comments »
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.
Images scanned by Miss Peelpants
Twenties-style slip by Proper Pride (£4.35)
Cami-knickers by Janet Reger (£19.50)
Larking around with Diana Rigg
Posted: December 29, 2011 Filed under: 1960s, alun hughes, avengerswear, diana rigg, the avengers 5 Comments »
Diana and costume designer Alun Hughes
I came across this series of photos ages ago, and there’s something about the sheer volume of them which entertains me greatly. She looks like she’s having a jolly good time, larking around with the random chaps she has been thrown together with in the studio. I think they were mainly promotional photos for her outfits so, other than costume designer Alun Hughes, I guess the guys were just there for slightly unhinged, eccentric, Avengerland good measure…
Diana with British boxer Billy Walker
Diana with Avengers stunt coordinator Ray Austin (left)
Diana with jockey Josh Gifford
Plus rogue bottom-spanking photo with unidentified gentleman…
Vintage Adverts: Dubonnet on the rocks
Posted: December 28, 2011 Filed under: dubonnet, hats, seventies fashion, tights, Vintage Adverts, Vogue 2 Comments »
Dubonnet. Scanned from Vogue, November 1972
Merry Pimm’smas!
Posted: December 23, 2011 Filed under: pimm's, Vintage Adverts 1 Comment »
Vintage Adverts: Chelsea Girl’s word is her bonded Orlon
Posted: December 22, 2011 Filed under: chelsea girl, seventies fashion, Vintage Adverts 3 Comments »
From December 1970. I love me some Chelsea Girl, and this advert is just perfection with the colours, the styling, the design… it even makes me half-fancy a white wig! I think I’ll leave it at the half-fancying stage though…
Thank God for the Seventies…
Posted: December 21, 2011 Filed under: christmas, glam rock, legs and co, seventies fashion 3 Comments »
…for providing me with the only Christmas songs I can deal with, aside from certain carols. I can’t even take the Nutcracker suite due to extreme over-familiarity. So the only ones I can really bear are from the Seventies. I’m not anti-Christmas, I am merely anti-schmaltz.
Plus bonus Legs and Co Christmas routine to ‘Funky Town’. I would like a fairy dressed like them on top of my Christmas tree, as would, I suspect, most men…
Party Pieces
Posted: December 18, 2011 Filed under: 1960s, Illustrations, malcolm bird, petticoat magazine Leave a comment »
Incredible illustration about hosting a party (I’m assuming by Malcolm Bird) scanned from Petticoat, December 1968.
Vintage Adverts: Velmar Girls
Posted: December 17, 2011 Filed under: 1960s, faux fur, Inspirational Images, Vintage Adverts, Vogue 1 Comment »
Scanned from Vogue, November 1967.
Petals in Poster Colours
Posted: December 16, 2011 Filed under: Foale and Tuffin, harpers and queen, james wedge, Sally Tuffin, seventies fashion 5 Comments »
Incredible clothes by Sally Tuffin, incredible photographs by Mr James Wedge; appealing to my interest in all things clown-ish. I love this photoshoot, even more because I have the blue cape on the picture above. Sadly, the pleats have somewhat fallen out (perhaps someone washed it?) and I have no idea how to put them back in again. Bums. Any advice welcomed…
