Pictorial Review June 1924

The cover of this falling apart vintage 1924 magazine caught my eye for more than the lovliness of it's art.

    I wonder what the artist would have thought had he known that a similar styled ring would become an iconic symbol of a time period when many decades later that ring would be gifted to a woman called Diana on the occasion of her engagement?

   The mind boggles...

Stout? Vintage Lane Bryant advertising

Heavier set body types like ours are now commonly refered to as "Curvy" or "Full Figured", neither of which terms are we great fans of.

Either of which tho, 

 in our opinion,

 beats the heck out of "Stout". 

  

(Advertisement from Pictoral Review magazine circa 1924)

Somewhere buried in boxes of photos I (Grrl Picker, Laura) have a photo of my great grand mother in one of these dropped waist 1920's dresses while standing with great pride on the front steps of her home.

 I remember thinking when I first saw the photo,

    "I've never seen a larger woman from that time period in that sort of fashion".

 Funny how pop culture gives us a bit of a distorted view of period, when we first think of a woman in the 1920's the first image that leasp to mind is of the rail thin, flat chested flapper type or the rail thin actresses of Our Gang or Three Stooges short films.

Surely there must have been other attractive body types from that time period as evidenced by the fact that all women now are not genetically descended from rail thin, flat chested flappers or Hollywood starlets.

  

But I digress... 

I am a little amused at my body type being refered to as "curvy" as I am in general built more like Winnie the Pooh than Marilyn Monroe but at least "curvy" has a bit of a feminine sounding lilt to it where as "stout" definately does not.

  

  I guess this ad amuses me as well but I am quite sure that the only time I ever want to hear myself refered to as "stout" is if someone is offering to buy me a beer, 

"Can I get you a Guinness? You look like a stout woman."

Our first professional photos, thanks Becktoria Photography!

National Handcraft - Head 'N Shoulders Ring

The back of this card reads:

"Head 'N Shoulders Ring - Most versitile accessory ever invented. This glamorous head or neck piece of glistening white fabric may be worn many ways. A style sensation when trimmed with imported iridescent beads, crystal drops, and custom made braid. Head 'N Shoulders kit also available in Colorado Blue."

Sounds pretty exciting but perhaps this 'Most Versitile Accessory' might have been more of a hit if it did not closely resemble and old time maxi pad wrapped (belt and all) around the head and/or neck....

    We sell a lot of vintage postcards tho I can't see much of a demand for this one, I bought it anyway because the expressions on the models face (as if she is wearing fine jewelry instead of sanitary products about her head and face) just cracks me up to no end...

                                                                                 -Laura

More pages from Beatlemania teen magazines

More pictures from mid 1960's teen magazines. 

I was born in 1970 so Beatlemania was a bit before my time but through the years I've read every Beatle biography I could get my hands on. 

I picked these up at a record show I was selling at recently, having read about those old guys, The Beatles, having been teen pop stars at some point in the past is way different than holding artifacts from that time period.

  I'm quite sure I read them with a similar giddy excitement of a 16 year old in 1965....    

I don't remember Frankie lighting up a smoke on the beach in any of his flicks with Annette...    

          I don't think that finding "the right girl" was really a priority for Richard Chamberlain... 

John Jr. is known as Julian to my generation... 

Great Pick! - Beatles Teen magazines

Grrl Pickers were selling at the New England Record Expo this past Sunday and although the day was stormy (about 6 inches of snow and wild winds blowing it all around) the day was a success in more ways than one. We made a nice profit on our own wares but we also made a great pick.

It was a real win-win kind of day!

 We picked the cream of the crop from a large stack of magazines being sold by our friends at The Randolph Music Center (North Main Street, Randolph, MA) and beyond the good investment (we would put all our money into Beatles memoribilia before any publicly traded stock any day of the week...) we are laughing ourselves silly at all the great quasi 'articles' published within.

The 16 magazine that we remember from the 1980's was similar in format but more than the faces of the young pop stars within have changed from 1965 til 1985 and I would bet even more changes occured from 1985 til now...   

 

Can you possibly imagine a teen magazine published today featuring a full color pin up of a 'teen idol' with a cigarette? 

 

Not only were the pop stars featured in 1965, thier non-pop star girl friends were of apparent very high intrest. Articles featuring women/girls are almost equal in ratio to articles featuring 'the boys' in the small group of magazine we bought.   

News flash: George hates tea or coffee without sugar.

 This fascinating information is accompanied by a rather unfortunate shot of the man who clearly was not expecting his picture to be taken at the time.

Would 16 publish a photo of Justin Beiber swigging on a 40? 

I believe the drinking age in the US when this was published in 1965 was still 18 but the mind wonders just what the editors were thinking and if maybe more than a few preachers and parents just might have been a teeny bit right about 'them Bee-tles' being less than proper roll models for their influential youngsters...    

  

It gives one a wee bit of a sqeemish feeling to know more about these people (total strangers) now than they even knew about themselves at the time this shot was taken.
 
                                          (insert Doctor Who theme music here)

Pattie Boyd went on to marry George and Eric Clapton, inspire some incredible classic rock songs and suffer her own sadness in an other wise star crossed life and Brian Jones?

 Words fail...

In contrast, our generation's teen magazines were decidedly different:

Boy, we hope Matt Dillon's chest hair finally grew in. Poor kid...         

A well over 21 appearing Rick Springfield attempts to boost his career with a centerfold in "Quite Legal But of Extremely Questionable Taste" magazine...

Leif Garrett models his mom's disco blouse.

 No wonder this guy is such a mess, look what was done to him!  

  Poor Leif...

         The squeeky clean Hardy Boys was THE BEST SHOW EVER!!! when we were kids and Shaun Cassidy and his ever so fluffy hair was absolutely the coolest part of the whole show.

Little did Grrl Picker Laura know at 16 she would be absurdly proud of getting the same, at least 10 years out of date and the (debateably) wrong gender, haircut.

Laura says:

"I bet the hairdresser saw my dorky ass coming a mile away,

"Give her the 'Shaun Cassidy' she'll never know..."

The same hairdresser also gave me my first 'perm of a 40 year old woman'.

 I was 12 at the time and clearly remember a cute boy classmate laughing himself silly over it, kinda the way I'm sure the hairdresser laughed herself all the way to the bank..."

Anyhoo,

Great weekend, great sales, great pick and a good time was had by all. 

Except poor Leif Garrett.

  Poor, poor Leif Garrett... 

*sigh*