Sylvia Jauqes

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Lovely To Look At

We realise we're stating the obvious.

West Berlin secretary SYLVIA JAUQES is really lovely to look at and anyone who thinks otherwise has had too many late nights and can't see proper.

Unlike Paris, where they were slow to admit London fashions had clicked into gear, West Germany took up the mini-skirt vogue with alacrity and delight, and Sylvia is among the thousands of West Berlin office girls who swing along with the London girls.

They're gradually getting round to it in Paris. It's a little bit of prideful teeth-gnashing, really, but they'll be all right when they've got over it. Unless the General decides to pronounce against it.

It won't affect Sylvia. She'll go on looking lovely in or out of her mini-skirts.

Span No 156 - August 1967

Janet Neill

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Merry Mrs

Now happily married is Scots model JANET NEILL.

Well, life is always what you make it, when you're married there are two of you to make it well worthwhile. It's fun finding out that life is fun. It's hard work being miserable. With Janet it's natural to be gay. Husbands, like life, can be fun too.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Jane Matthews

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Girls and Dolls

It's not only little girls with pigtails who like dolls. Big girls with fashionable hairdo’s also like 'em. Take, for example, pretty JANE MATTHEWS.

Jane really loves dolls and has a collection that would fill any nursery. Big ones, small ones, cuddly ones. English ones, Dutch ones, French ones.

The fact is, Jane loved dolls even when she was only so high and has never grown out of them. And they come in all shapes and sizes.

We'd say that Jane is quite a doll herself. When she gets married her husband will find that in addition to Jane he's got a houseful of others.

We don't think any of them will have quite the same measurements as Jane herself, but they all look mighty cute.

Before we forget, Jane's measurements are worth recording. She tapes up to 37"-24"-36". Inches like those add up to quite some doll in her own right! And she lives at Barnet, within a long stone's throw of the London she loves.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Julie Marsden

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Layered Nylons?

This intriguing picture features Julie Marsden, who appeared in just four magazines for Toco. However, this particular image seems to deviate from her usual sets. A closer look reveals an unconventional choice of undergarments, with what appears to be flesh-coloured tights underneath black stockings, and possibly no knickers or alternatively she is wearing see-through knickers with the waist band of her suspender belt under her knickers. The fashion of wearing knickers over tights was more prevalent in the late 1960s and 70s, a stark contrast to today's style of wearing knickers under tights. The concept of layered nylons seems to have a historical precedent, as seen in the case of Diane Clarke in Spick 178, who also sported stockings over tights. Special thanks to Tocofan for sharing this unique photograph. Please keep them coming!

Susan Douglas

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Ravishingly Inimitable

No one can say we haven't found less delightful girls than any other magazine. In a mood of unshakeable confidence, we declare we've found too many to count.

Lots of them have given you moments when you've thought if only you were tall, dark and handsome, with a villa in Spain and a chateau in France, you could have confronted them with nonchalance.

"I'm a rich, fascinating playboy, Esmerelda-how about coming down to Southend and looking over my ocean-going yacht sometime?"

"I'm not Esmerelda, I'm Toots, and I get sea-sick on yachts." Anyway, of all the delightful girls we've found SUSAN DOUGLAS has been ravishingly inimitable and still is. We've had so many yearning postcards about her lately that we gave in to sentiment and here is Susan to make you happy again.

Save up and buy a glider, even if not a yacht. Susan loves being up in the air.

Beautiful Britons No 156 - November 1968

Sadie Milligan

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Happy Birthday - Sadie Milligan

I was reminded over the weekend that Easter Sunday, 31st March, marked Sadie Milligan's 86th birthday. I can confirm that she is well and thriving in Australia. It was 60 years ago that she left Ardrossan for a new life down under.

Let's hope it was all that she had hoped for and more. Let's enjoy a few pictures of the very lovely Sadie Milligan, who was about 19 to 20 years old when most of these pictures were taken.

Julie Amos

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New Model

Dreamy-eyed girl with the long legs is JULIE AMOS, new to the world of modelling.

Julie is a Yorkshire girl, resident at the moment in London.

Working in a London office, Julie earns sufficient as a shorthand-typist to keep herself comfortably fed and attractively clothed, and that's not all.

She also puts away enough each the pay-day to ensure she can cope with the expenses of a summer holiday on the Continent. On any part of the Continent incidentally, this soft eyed, dark haired Yorkshire lass really slays them.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Helen Candlish

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Lovely in Lingerie

Actually, HELEN CANDLISH looks lovely in any kind of clothing. She's pretty cute even in a barrel or a roll of lino. In lingerie, of course, she's one hundred per cent feminine, and that, bub, counts more with us than any barrel.

If you're travelling through Ayrshire at all this summer, on your way to the Highlands, you might be lucky enough to spot Helen. Keep your glasses at the ready and let someone else do the driving.

Helen loves modelling, and there's nothing that quite beats a model who loves her work and who looks just the way Helen looks.

And when modelling the attractive briefness of the modern girl's lingerie, Helen looks lovely. Which is where we came in.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Liz Harvey

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Joy of Living

It's daytime again.

The long dark night is over and joyfully LIZ HARVEY rushes out of doors to lap up the bright sunshine.

What fun. Larks are in the sky and dew on the grass. The ice cream man is just setting out with a tinkle of silvery bells.

The postman is delivering electric light bills. The next-door canary has just laid an egg.

Liz is loving every moment.

Away in the woods the forestry man has just bent his chopper in an attempt to get the better of a scheduled oak. The bus is picking up schoolchildren and Billy Barker is trying to sit next to Lulu Herringbone. Lulu is eating an apple she was going to save until lunchtime.

It's all fun.

Liz lives in Bournemouth. Liz is entrancingly curvy. Liz is full of the joys of living.

Anyone feel like being miserable?

Go and join Billy Barker then. He finished up sitting next to a market gardener carrying a case of onions. Freddy Blueberry pinched the seat next to Lulu and shared her apple with her. By the way, these photographs of Liz were taken when the daylight had gone all dark.

Beautiful Britons No 156 - November 1968

Helen Milligan

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Helen Milligan - Ruinous Fun

Another superb unpublished picture of Helen Milligan from the Field Day set of pictures used in Beautiful Britons No. 118, September 1965. Helen is seen having fun in a dilapidated old building on what appears to be a typical grey, cold English day. This particular picture, taken from a contact sheet, had a pen strike across it, presumably indicating that it was not to be used. I believe it is a great picture; Helen looks lovely with her hair beautifully pinned up. Thanks to Tocofan, for providing the picture.

Lynda Farrell

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Full Of the Joys

So, she is.

So would you be if you were young and beautiful instead of creaking with age. LYNDA FARRELL is irresistibly photogenic and in her mini dress is undeniably eye-catching.

Girls today are a joy in the eyes of any beholder, proving that you don't have to go to an art gallery to bring pleasure to your tired mince pies.

Lynda brings joy to the observer even when she's boarding a bus, and when she's crossing the road at the traffic lights the poor old worn-out motorists sit up as if they're giving off sparks. A bouquet of flowers is a delight, a view of the Swiss Alps superb, but Lynda tripping a joyful light fantastic over a pedestrian crossing makes a gorgeous colour slide for your projector.

As she lights up the screen all your friends say what a lovely shot of the High Street traffic lights, do show it again. And you show it again and all your friends say well, you should take more colour slides like that one instead of getting so obsessed with the Swiss Alps.

After all, one alp is very much like another, but Lynda is full of the joys and ecstatically inimitable.

In short, a smasher.

Span No 156 - August 1967

Jackie West

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Jackie

Is anyone fully cognisant of exactly how we're all going to be rich and prosperous when we finally get into the Common Market? The politicians are certain it's going to lift us out of our slough of economic despond, and if you can think of any reason to doubt politicians keep it to yourself. Meantime we wonder if we'd get in any sooner if we sent JACKIE WEST to see mon general. Mon general is the gentleman impervious to all the Anglo-Saxons he's met up to now. Could he really say "Non, non," to Jackie?

Span No 163 - March 1968