Womens Magazines of Yesteryear.

My mother didn’t buy women’s magazines as dad controlled all the money and was as tight as a duck’s behind.
In our house mum bought Titbits ( there’s a title you wouldn’t see nowadays) and Weekend.

Oh and always The Exchange and Mart.
As soon as I could afford it I bought Woman and Woman’s Own. I never liked Women’s Weekly and the Women’s Realm - they seemed for much older women even then !

I used to buy Woman and Woman`s Own for many years, then they changed format, became mostly about pop stars, so stopped getting them. I used to buy Take a Break to do the competitions, but nowadays I rarely buy magazines, if I do it`s People`s Friend.

My mother used to buy Women’s weekly for the knitting patterns. When I was young (probably under 10), I use to flick through it. I remember the Mary Marryat Page, and there was often talk of those who had regrettably “anticipated marriage’, strangely my mother never really gave a satisfactory explanation for what that meant, though I did grasp that it was frowned upon - funny the odd things you remember when you now can’t recall what you had to eat the day before!

I buy Women’s Weekly most weeks. My favourite page is What you’re Wearing and You Wore It Well.

My mum bought it for the knitting patterns.

When I was still at school - Honey. My mum used to buy Woman's Own but I did occasionally see the others. More importantly for me, as a young adult - Cosmo, Vogue and especially Nova. I bought all the issues of the latter and I think I still have the final issue lurking somewhere in a box.

GrannySomerset there would be absolutely nothing unsuitable for a child to read to their Nanny from the People's Friend. There still isn't!

I started getting WomansWeekly last year for the brilliant crochet throw patterns !
I always remember it for knitting, baking and advice ,
The stories are still dire !

Another interesting link

www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/a-different-world-advice-from-a-1960s-agony-aunt-1.1871051%3fmode=amp

I found this link online

www.womansweekly.com/

Is this a coincidence in name or same magazine?

I was looked after in the school holidays by a retired children’s nanny. I used to read her the stories from People’s Friend while she had her after lunch rest, surely less than suitable for a primary aged child! Can’t have hurt, though, because I became an avid reader. Woman’s Weekly had patterns for knitted clothes for Rosebud dolls and Nanny Carpenter taught me to knit and helped me make the simpler things, whilst producing wonderful outfits for my dolls for Christmas and birthdays.

Thanks for the reminder, calendargirl, I hadn’t thought of this for nearly seventy years.

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