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Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly Boutique - 1969
Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly, the sheffield fashion boutique launched in 1967 by local business entrepreneur Roger Howe, has been a source of intrigue to me for quite a while. He was inspired to name the...
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New York — Fashion's Golden City 1967
Most other fashion industries of the world rely for solvency on the American store buyer: New York itself can import the best from Paris, London and Rome, and exacts the utmost in professionalism from...
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Jess Down - English Boy Ltd Model & Artist - Jackie Magazine interview, 1969.
I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Jess Down, Artist and former English Boy Ltd model. It's not difficult to see why he was in such demand, he's very easy on the eyes, although he didn't...
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La garde robe Dacron 70
A really nice peasant/folkwear inspired collection by Dacron, which was available for a mere 40F in 1970 through Prisunic, the chain of French department stores, famed for it's low cost products. It...
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Breakaway to Ski - Simpson of Piccadilly 1969
A 1969 advertising feature for Simpson's of Piccadilly, to show their take on how ski-ing had turned from a mere sport into a 'bold new slant on the high life'. Simpson's department store, established...
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Return of the Dandy 1966
Ruffles foaming over the shirt-fronts of dinner-jackets and lace spilling out of the sleeves, tight-fitting velvet pants, young men who will demand 20 sittings at a tailor to be sure that the length of...
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The Swinging Revolution 1966
This sartorial vision of a young Ossie Clark (centre), along with Niel Winterbottom (left), photographed in their finery against the incredible Antony Little fin de siecle style...
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The Spirit of the Age, Funky Chic, and The Street Fighters - Tom Wolfe 1976
Some really great illustrations and observations on style by Tom Wolfe from Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, published in 1976, although I believe most of them originally accompanied...
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The Boutiques Business 1970
ORIGINALITY FOR SALESmall boutiques with their slightly different clothes have been around for a long time. But the big business boutiques so characteristic of London...
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A Raver's Pop Guide round Britain 1966
A Raver's Pop Guide Round Britain, was published in May of 1966, just over a month after Time Magazine had proclaimed London as the city of the decade, devoting the cover and 13 pages of its April 15th...
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Courrèges: Clothes of the Future 1965
CLOTHES OF THE FUTURE ARE HEREOf all the couturiers now working in Paris, Courrèges is the one whose designs are really revolutionary. He questions some of the basic...
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Show Yourself In Your True Colours - Jackie Magazine 1971
SHOW YOURSELF IN YOUR TRUE COLOURS!Does your personality show through your clothes? (You want to watch what you wear, luv!). No, really, you can tell a lot about people by the...
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Nature gave this girl dull brown hair - Jackie Magazine 1969
NATURE GAVE THIS GIRL DULL BROWN HAIR. SUPERSOFT HAIRTONER GAVE HER THE NATURAL ANSWER.Now there's a natural solution to dull brown hair. A shampoo called Supersoft...
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Qiana - Depéche Mode 1970
Some fantastic illustrations, which were used to promote Qiana - a luxury, silk-like, nylon fibre developed by Stanley Brooke Speck for Du Pont in 1962. It was initially introduced to the fashion...
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The Now Generation - 1970
THE NOW GENERATIONGroove through-the-looking-glasses with two eye catching knits of easy care Quintess polyester. In get-him-and-keep-him lilac,...
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Multiplex Minis by Peter Max 1970
✰ ✰ ✰ MULTIPLEX MINIS BY MAX ✰ ✰ ✰''You can fall under the spell of astrology and plan your life accordingly. Or you can go beyond it and control the star power...
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Le Masculin Féminin - Dépèche Mode 1971
LE MASCULIN FÉMININ The mini-skirted tailored suit on the right is probably the earliest example of Thierry Mugler's work that I've...
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Would you let your own daughter undergo - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCEIt was only a year ago, between the end of militarygear and the start of Flower Power, that Jimi Hendrix, a completely unknown...
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What's wrong with beads and bells? 1967
WHAT'S WRONG WITH BEADS AND BELLS?What's all the fuss about flower children? It seems that everyone over the age of thirty—particularly the national press, the police, and the...
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Smoke and Leather 1971
Pour La Peau La chance du Short...Leather Jacket and shorts by Brezin, the upper back and elbows of the jacket are studded. Maxi-socks by Colette Brezin,...
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