Womens Magazines of Yesteryear.

Sara1954

Might it have been True Story?

I think it was but before that I bought Boyfriend with my paper round money.

Clawdy, I remember My Weekly as well. My mum got it every week and I also read it after I had read my teen magazine. You've brought back some happy memories!

Might it have been True Story?

Another She fan here.
When I was little my mother had a pile of magazines (given to her) I expect, which were all short love stories, I don’t know what they were called, or if they were suitable for a child, but I devoured them all.

I remember reading Marty and Valentine in my early teens, then moving on to pop hits type ones later, desperate to read all about the Beatles and Stones' love life! My mum bought My Weekly, and for some reason, I got a bit hooked on Life And The Wadhams, a weekly fiction story about an ideal family! Polly, Mike and their 3 perfect kids.....

Looks like She was the most missed Magazine, I too was a fan.
I don't buy any now just bit I enjoy going to the Hairdressers as they have a good selection, all recently bought. Pleased to say they have restarted buying them post Covid.

I bought ‘Petticoat’ from about 1966, (or my mum bought it for me). It seemed very trendy and hip, ‘Kathy’s Crowd’, all about a young woman living in a flat in London, working in an upmarket office or publishers, going out with her boss, parties, it was like another world to little old me, living in a rural backwater.

I still have all my old copies in the loft, occasionally look through them and feel very nostalgic as I peruse fashion pics of Twiggy in her heyday, and pop groups/film stars, who are now in their 80’s, if not deceased!

Cilla Black, of course. Sorry, typo or predictive text...

(it changed it again - good job I noticed this time!)

I have a huge pile of magazines, mainly dating back to the early 80s. I am loathe to throw them out before I've read them again and cut out any recipes.

They are mainly Cosmopolitan, She and Good Housekeeping. I would pick one up whenever I came to the UK.

It is surprising what I remember when I leaf through them, and it is very sad sometimes to see articles about people in their prime who are now no longer with us. (E. g. Villa Black, Diana Rigg, Farrah Fawcett, Paula Yates.

The hair! The make-up! The shoulder pads!

When I was little my mother took Woman which I enjoyed reading (when I'd finished my "June and School Friend" )

Yep, those too, sodapop. Never a place I wanted to linger. I don't know what was worse. Inky bum, Izal scratchy bum or arachnophobia. We finally got an inside lav in 1968.

I remember the squares of newspaper and magazines in the outside lavatory as well Flexagon also the huge spiders who lived in there.

I think mum used to have Woman and Woman's Own, as I remember reading them, but didn't buy them, in the 1950's.
Dad had Titbits and Reveille, and looked very like Andy Capp, with his everlasting fag hanging from his bottom lip.
Later I tried the Women's magazines again, but they had changed so much.
Then I had a subscription to Good Housekeeping for ages, but the articles came around and around.
So, I don't buy anything regularly now, just the occasional House Style type thing .

Like others on here former SHE readers, I’m now down to Good Housekeeping. To be honest the name is a bit old fashioned and misleading, it’s quite good really with a mixture of articles. But they do repeat the same topics, so only buy occasionally now, like when bored or travelling (?).

I recall She magazine in the early 70s it was massive in size compared to the others. My parents were magazine and newspaper mad so daily through our letterbox came Daily Mirror evening paper local Telegraph, a Sunday Mirror, TheTV Times ( even though it only listed ITV programmes then) so funny that.
Then every week there was Womans Weekly and Woman I think the “Woman’s Weekly” appealed more to my Mums older age group at the time in her late 40s and “Woman” was Mums way of keeping in touch with my older sisters. Remember Marjory Proops she was much more outspoken than the rather twee Mary Marriat in a way Mary was very BBC I suppose whereas Marj was more ITV ….. our paper bill was enormous

sodapop

My ex husband's parents used to buy Titbits Infinity his mother would cut out the 'rude' bits before he read it. It ended up full of square holes

My gran bought Titbits and Reveille. Both ended up cut into squares and hung on a hook in the outdoor lav when there was no money for the luxury that was Izal!

I loved SHE in the 1970s, a bit different, daring and racy. Stopped buying it when it changed, and became like all the other magazines.

Used to get the American edition of Cosmopolitan when I lived in Singapore - what an eye-opener!

Used to enjoy the old Woman and Woman's Own, but not since they became full of celebs and soaps.

Now I have Good Housekeeping because it comes free with my bank account.

Good Housekeeping is the one I buy regularly now. The Woman's Own/Woman's Weekly type magazines used to be quite cosy and traditional but are just full of articles about Richard and Judy, the Loose Women etc nowadays so have no interest.

I also remember weekly comics when I was a child - Mandy, Bunty and Judy in particular while my brother bought Dandy, Beano and the Beezer which I also loved. Apart from the Beano they've all disappeared.

She, Nova, Honey, Petticoat. I never buy magazines now but did once avidly, wish I still had some of those old ones, particularly from the late 60s early 70s. I did buy Cosmopolitan for a while when it was considered innovative, but increasingly I was realising all that naval gazing, psycho babble and introspection got on my nerves eventually.

These days even the fashion colour supplement with the Sunday Times pisses me off, such a fatuous load of bollocks, who buys the outrageously priced and often horrible clothes featured

Another fan of She magazine until it’s demise 10 years ago, I also bought Cosmopolitan when I started work.

Now it’s Good Housekeeping, Women & Home, Ideal Home and Homes & Gardens.

I read Woman in my teens, to find out about Life. My mother didn’t approve at all. She thought it was very downmarket, so I wasn’t allowed to have it delivered to the house by the newsagent with the other magazines and newspapers. If I wanted to read it, I had to buy it.

Approved magazines were things like Ideal Home, Homes and Gardens, Vogue. My brother and I had mags relating to our hobbies and interests. Dance and Dancers and Ballet Today for me, Aeromodeller for him. (Is that right? I’m getting a red dotted line under it. Perhaps Aero Modeller?)

My ex husband's parents used to buy Titbits Infinity his mother would cut out the 'rude' bits before he read it. It ended up full of square holes

I loved SHE in the 1980s. It was quite feminist then. It's just another clothes/make-up/sex tips mag now.

I also used The Lady to find my first nanny job in the early 80s. It was an anachronism even then.

I was too young for Spare Rib but avidly read them in my uni library

I loved SHE as well BlueSky but sadly it changed its format and became like all the rest, instead of being a bit different. I recall it also had a poem and 'Under an English (or Irish, Scottish or Welsh) Heaven' with a beautiful landscape.

Grandma got Woman or Woman's Own which I was allowed to read during visits while she talked with Mum. I learned all sorts of things, especially in the medical columns. I don't think they'd have been too happy if they'd known about the personal subject matter.

I like Country Living and Landscape.

BlueSky

I used to love SHE! It seemed to be so ‘with it’, covering more ‘daring’ topics....I used to keep them to read again.

Snap.
Later, I move on to Good Housekeeping. However these days I don’t but any because they are so full of adverts. Open to any suggestions though.