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Vintage Stockings Archive is a work in progress and is nowhere near complete, but there are enough galleries to get started with. More will be added as and when I am able.
The blog page will be used to announce new galleries and items of interest.
Enjoy
It was the sort of day to make the girls lively, all the sun and fresh air inspiring blonde HELEN CANDLISH and brunette JEAN DEE to practise the egg-and-spoon race for the forthcoming fete. And other races too.
"Gee up?" cried Helen.
"Look, I never was intended to win the Grand National," said Jean, "so just watch it with your spurs, will you?"
Oh well, over the meadows they galloped, like, and in the fields they skipped, and the young farmers stood around and said they were the best thing that had happened to agriculture since Cleopatra.
We don't feel we can argue.
Spick No 246 - May 1974
These pictures were sent in by Alex’s husband, Rob. Rob says Alex loves to dress up and do a bit of home modelling for fun. Rob’s hobby is photography; mind you, yours would be too with a wife like Alex!
Alex is from Sheffield, is a mum and works part time as a cleaner.
Alex can clean my house any day she likes!
Seamed stockings and proper knickers complete the perfect ensemble for aficionados.
If you'd like to see more of Alex, then please hit the Like button. She might just return and surprise you some more.
Housewife DOROTHY BENDALL is Dot to all her friends. Dot is happy, lively and fun, but all the dash around the house comes from her daughter KAY. She's helter-skelter youth while Dot is jolly Mum.
They're more like sisters, actually. They go to dances together and run for a bus together. They live in Hampshire and make every day full of fun and giggles.
It’s been a busy year, 2021. Vintage Fetish has been doing well, with its audience growing month on month. Personally, I have had a few ups and downs, but a way forward is making itself clear and I have a few ideas I would like to share.
Last summer I was fortunate to be offered the complete contents of the Vintage Stockings Archive from its webmaster. The site, which I am sure a great many of you were familiar with, closed a year or two ago. There are, as you can imagine, 10’s of 1000’s of images; I have taken some months to review these and have been posting some of the ones that are most in keeping with this website’s main content into the blog on a regular basis.
Most, though, don’t fit well on this site. I want to keep this website as I originally intended - to cover all things ToCo, and include other titles from the 1950’s, 60’s and early 1970’s era. And there is still a lot of ground to cover here, with QT and Pin-Up and many other lesser-known titles still to come; as ever the intention is to make as many of these books available as digital copies for us all to enjoy for a long time to come.
So, let me stop waffling and get to the point – I have decided to resurrect Vintage Stockings Archive as a new stand-alone website. Most, if not all, of its old content, and some new, will be made available for you to enjoy. Those of you who are familiar with the old site will appreciate that a great deal of its content was pictures that had been harvested from the web and then reposted in their original form. I am not going to change that; images will be posted in galleries un-retouched - I just don’t have the time to review every picture.
This new site will eventually have to stand on its own feet financially, which means it will likely be funded with adverts. I will give it a year to see how things go.
Construction is underway, and it will go live when I have enough galleries uploaded to make it viable, and then keep adding content on a regular basis.
I will let you know here when it goes live.
I have been thinking about this next project for some time and feel that the site has now matured enough to give it a go.
But this one is down to you.
Spick, Span and Beautiful Britons were a real success; they published their funny little books for 23 years, and it was all down to pictures of mainly ordinary women in ordinary situations giving us an eyeful of their underwear and a teasing look; what more could we ever want!
The success of this website shows me there is still a real desire to see more like it.
I am keen, and I am sure many others are as well, to see something a little more up to date.
So, I am proposing an area where you can send in pictures of your wives and girlfriends. I do want to ensure that this is in keeping with the ToCo view on things - teasing and fun - nothing explicit. Take a close look at the pictures used from the 1960’s books to get a good idea of what is required. This one really is down to you - your reward will be the fun you get at the end of the shoot, and then seeing your pictures being liked and commented on by others.
More information can be found here.
It's serious, said the man invisible from the neck upwards, I've just lost my head. It happened in a trice. I saw ANNE DUKE and lost it as soon as my eyes fastened on her.
Never mind, with a head like you had you're better off without it.
Don't be unkind to him, said Anne, after all, it's rather flattering, a girl likes to feel she's noticed as much as that.
Beautiful Britons No 155 - October 1968
" I say," said the smitten bystander.
A perfectly exquisite pair of legs had just gone by. They belonged to mini-skirted housewife HAZEL POOLE, and the bystander, who wasn't doing anything except waiting for a bus, felt floored. Gad, bingo! he thought.
Hazel's lovely legs go wherever she goes, which makes her ever so good to look at when she's out shopping, or at home trying on a new pair of stocking-tops.
"Are you engaged, wonderful one?" asked the bystander, forgetting about his bus and catching her up.
Hazel coolly informed him she was married and that her husband packed rather a large wallop, and the bystander, a fine upstanding young bloke, sighed and said, "Well, anytime your lovely legs aren't doing anything special please come and stand them in an empty picture frame of mine."
"Oh, sauce box, are we ?" said Hazel and pulled his hat over his eyes.
Beautiful Britons No 240 - July 1975
As you all know, the minikilt is a Scottish-styled miniskirt with a tartan pattern and a whacking great safety pin. What you don't know is how delicious Scottish secretary FIONA McKAY looks in her little kilt, so here you are, you can now find out. Fiona is intrinsically bonny, which means she doesn't half make a dishy open-air picture, and with vitalistics of 37-23-36 she couldn't miss. Any enquiries about the lovely effect of porridge on the figure should be addressed to the Scottish Department of Physical Culture.
Spick No 189 - August 1969
Not only is JOANNA YOUNG an attractive housewife and a mother of four little girls, she's also an enthusiastic water-skier.
And that's not all.
She's also a lovely cook.
How do you do it, Joanna?
"Well, you take a bag of flour, a dozen eggs-" No, don't be comical. How do you find the time and the enthusiasm?
"Well, my husband has this big whip, you see-"
No, be serious.
"It just comes naturally. was born a genius." You were born beautiful, that's what. Good on you, darling.
"Don't be so familiar."
Can't help it. You're lovely.
In fact, Joanna isn't just lovely, she looks like the spirit of animated feminity when she's out on her favorite country ramble.
Span No 198 - February 1971
