Estelle McDonald
/Crack Shot
It was time to thin out the flocks of rooks which had begun to be a pest as well as a noise around the local countryside, and local lovely ESTELLE McDONALD took her gun along to join the shoot.
She got into a little trouble negotiating the terrain in search of the shoot, because she thought it would be rather fetching to wear a feminine petticoat or two among all the breeches present. They sort of got in the way, but she made it in the end.
She had to discard her petticoats but the blokes in breeches didn't mind, they thought her streamlined undies extremely practical for a shoot. Estelle blushed prettily and then went bang.
Mystery Model
/Relax No 13 - 1967
Gold Star Publications 1967
Nina Swallow
/The End In sight
It had to come, of course.
What did?
The mini to end all other minis. They can go just so high and then it’s the end. When NINA SWALLOW found out just how mini her latest creation was, she couldn't go out in it until her stretch tights were dry. She'd just washed them. She didn't fancy going to the classical concert in her nylons, it would have distracted eyes from the conductor.
Nina is absolutely sold on classical music, and she's a lover of the theatre too, so if you want to keep her absorbed in a lengthy conversation it's no good keeping to subjects like detergents and Derby winners, you won't get past the first five minutes without looking up and finding Nina gone.
Gone where?
Gone to find someone more intelligent.
Vintage Stockings Archive
/Vintage Stockings Archive
Take Your Pick
/Dawn Grayson, Diane Clark, Ann Grainger, Nicola Taylor, Rosanne Stuart and Jackie Taylor.
Readers whose hobby is pin-up albums pasted full of photographs of their favourite models can take their pick of the six girls featured here.
In order they are DAWN GRAYSON, DIANE CLARK, ANN GRAINGER, NICOLA TAYLOR, ROSANNE STUART and JACKIE TAYLOR.
Spick and Span 2000
/Mrs Smith
Louise Grayson
/Life Is What You Make It
Women appear on TV and are heard on radio complaining that it's a man's world. “Why,” they ask, “can't we drive dustcarts, collect garbage, mine coal, man the fishing trawlers, look after lighthouses and be bricklayers? Why must men hog all these lovely jobs, the swine’s?” Dunno. Men are like that, the swine’s.
But LOUISE GRAYSON is a happy enough housewife. Life, to Louise, is what you make it. If you want to make it a life of complaining, that's up to you, but you won’t get much out of it.
“Anyone,” says Louise, “can sit at home and wish herself surf-riding in Honolulu" says Louise,
Honolulu is lovely for surf-riding, of course, but who wants all that water and no green parks?"
Louise Burton
/Back Cover
Span No 207 - November 1971
Pinky Sands
/Learner Farmer
One summer day London dolly PINKY SANDS went down on the farm. She didn't really know what a farm was all about except as a place where cows wandered contentedly about, and farmers' sons chased the milkmaids. She had been a cosmopolitan city girl all her life and she found her days down on the farm all loaded with fresh air and fun.
Now she wants to give up cities and help a nice farmer to grow corn and barley and oats. Well, as she knew a spritely farmer's son, she asked him if his dad would like a willing milkmaid who would also be pleased to plant crops. The farmer's son said, "Never mind about what me dad would like, you're hired, so come and drive the tractor from this field to that one."
So, Pinky had a go with the tractor and drove it into a large field surrounded by trees and then said, "What next?" "This suits me fine," said the farmer's son, "it's a rural cul-de-sac." "Oh, you are saucy," said Pinky, fighting him off, "but it's lots of fun."
Vintage Stockings Archive
/Vintage Stockings Archive
Becky Gold
/There's Loyalty For You
Not only was Hampshire housewife BECKY GOLD determined to stick to her minis, but in an absolutely scintillating gesture of defiant loyalty she went around in her micro models.
With her long legs, her white boots and her cheeky knicks gallantly illustrating and advertising her loyalty, Becky gave all the fellers a fair old treat in her local high street.
Having spent a rotten time recently, in deep mourning for the departed mini, those fellers perked up no end when Becky glided in and out of the shops and wafted over the pavement.
"What a darling," said one feller.
"What an inspiration," said another, "why isn't she Prime Minister?"
Spick and Span 2000
/Dawn
Sara Stuart
/Shirts, Sweaters and Boots
When it comes to showing off the latest line in what the model girl is wearing today, fashion model SARA STUART is considerably with it. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that Sara is rather delightful to look at herself, and a shirt or a sweater or a pair of boots can almost be said to do no more than gild the lily.
And when nylons have to be modelled, who has a lovelier leg than Sara? Sara, by the way, is eighteen, spans the tape measure at 36"-22"-35". loves horses and winter sports, and is a classically beautiful Scot.
Jacqueline Blair
/The Question Is
With so many facets to fashion, the question is should a girl go for boots or frills or Long Johns?
Secretary JACQUELINE BLAIR thought it might solve something if she went for all three but found out immediately that Long Johns simply don't go with a mini.
Boots go with a mini and so does a straw hat on a sunny day, and frills go with anything. But Long Johns are for warmth and comfort, not for viewing, So Jackie bought a maxi and everything was as it should be. Except that the maxi hid the boots and frills as well and she had to acquire the cutest straw hat she could find and wait for a sunny day.