Kinky Croquet

Posted: August 16, 2012 | Author: Miss Peelpants | Filed under: 1970s, album covers, Inspirational Images, interesting record sleeves, jilly johnson, mild sauce, platforms, shoes, swimwear | 3 Comments »

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.

Inspirational Images: Swanky Modes, 1974

Posted: March 29, 2012 | Author: Miss Peelpants | Filed under: 1970s, caroline baker, Harri Peccinotti, nova magazine, Swanky Modes, swimwear | 4 Comments »

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

Posted: March 3, 2012 | Author: Miss Peelpants | Filed under: 1970s, hand tinting, Inspirational Images, james wedge, miss selfridge, pin ups, swimwear | 2 Comments »

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.

Swimming over the Moon

Posted: June 17, 2011 | Author: Miss Peelpants | Filed under: biba, meriel mccooey, Sarah Moon, seventies fashion, sunday times magazine, swimwear | 7 Comments »

Sunday Times Magazine. June 15th, 1975

Another classic, beautiful shoot by one of my favourite photographers, Sarah Moon. I now possess the Moon-photographed Pirelli calendar and am dreaming of the day when I have a large wall to decorate, and money to spend on getting them all framed. She manages to enter dreamworld and photograph it for us; utterly inspirational!