Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield appearing on the cover of Picturegoer, issue dated 16 March 1957. This was all to promote the release of the musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It, advertised within the paper, which also carried a feature comparing the actress with Marilyn Munroe.

DS meets XK140

A nice pair of automotive imports into the USA in the 1950s; two pictures from men's magazine After Hours, an issue from 1957. The Citroen DS would have been at the beginning of it's popularity, being sold in the States between 1956 and 1972. The Jaguar XK140 (which I am assuming is the correct model, or so my friends on Flickr tell me), was on the way out, being superseded by the XK150 from later in 1957. The model is Grace Curry, of whom I sadly know nothing.

Brown, Muff's

The Bradford department store Brown, Muff's (no sniggering at the back) could trace it's origins back to 1814. It traded until takeover by House of Frazer in 1977, who subsequently renamed the store as Rackhams. The store, also knowns as BM's and 'The Harrods of the North' stood in Market Street and also had branches in Skipton, Bingley and Doncaster.

The firm advertised extensively in The Dalesman magazine and the recent acquisition of a full set of issues for 1969 has prompted this post. Interestingly, the Bradford shop closed on Saturday afternoons, whilst those in Skipton and Bingley were closed all day on Tuesdays. Bri-Nylon, quilt covers, house coats or soda syphons, anyone?

Goodbye Eric

A rather inadequate tribute to comic actor and writer Eric Sykes, who died yesterday. This advert appeared in the 3 February 1977 issue of Country Life magazine.

What glamour shoots are really like.........

We wish.

From High Heels, July 1965

Ghetto Blaster

Advert from Homes & Gardens, October 1979. The price may have been £280, the cost of a decent SLR camera, but I wonder how much it actually weighed?