Showing posts with label Blighty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blighty. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Charles Atlas
The legendary body builder challenges puny British blokes to become "new men". From Blighty magazine, 15th October, 1955.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Buy Blighty!
The humorous magazine Blighty, has appeared before on this blog; here is an advert from the Daily Herald, 29 July 1953.
Sunday, 14 October 2012
And now in colour.......
The postman brought another bundle of 1950s Blighty magazines yesterday. These are from 1955 onwards and now sport a colour pin up on the cover (and still cost sixpence!).
All of the models featured, Molly Stevens, Jeanette Pearce, Margaret Simons and Toni Dais, hoped, as they say inside the magazine, to break into show business. Sadly, it seems that none got very far, at least under these names.
All of the models featured, Molly Stevens, Jeanette Pearce, Margaret Simons and Toni Dais, hoped, as they say inside the magazine, to break into show business. Sadly, it seems that none got very far, at least under these names.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Blighty
New arrivals into the Vintage Stuff archives are two copies of the humorous men's magazine, Blighty, these from January 1951.
The magazine was originally published in 1916, for troops serving in the war, ceasing in 1920. It was resurrected in 1939, continuing into the 1950s, offering stories, features and cartoons (often risqué, at least for the period), again, aimed mainly at men. By the mid-1950s, pin-ups were appearing on the cover and the name was changing; by 1960 it was a proper men's magazine, Parade, continuing as such until 1974, when the contents became more explicit.
The magazine was originally published in 1916, for troops serving in the war, ceasing in 1920. It was resurrected in 1939, continuing into the 1950s, offering stories, features and cartoons (often risqué, at least for the period), again, aimed mainly at men. By the mid-1950s, pin-ups were appearing on the cover and the name was changing; by 1960 it was a proper men's magazine, Parade, continuing as such until 1974, when the contents became more explicit.
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