DEFUNCT WOMEN'S MAGAZINES

What about Real magazine?? I loved it but it was sued by another red top msg as used the same font so then went under. It was perfect for me, such a shame 😳

Vanessa Feltz wrote the sex column in She. Her articles were brilliant.

I do.
They had lovely things for sale.
It was in Marie Claire that I first read about the evil Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena and how they had treated the Romanian people. A couple of months later they were dead.
Overthrown in a rebellion.
I liked Marie Claire then.
It mixed serious articles with fashion and beauty.
I loved to read Tatler just to see how the other half lived. 😀
Goood Housekeeping and Woman and Home too were ones I’d buy. But their interviews are sycophantic - stuff like Lulu saying her ageless looks are down to good genes and the skin cream she was flogging.
Not just her of course.
PR guff.
So I don’t bother buying them anymore.

Nova (which my mother bought but to be honest I was a bit too young for)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28UK_magazine%29

and Spare Rib
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare_Rib

I thought that was due to them appearing to copy Red Magazine? A previous poster made that point. I much preferred Real magazine to Red anyway!

I loved magazines 30 years ago! I bought Company, Cosmo, J17, Mizz, and was there one called Catch? Loved New Woman too

Does anyone remember 'Annabelle' magazine? Must have been around in the mid to late 70s. Similar to 'She' magazine but a bit tamer! My DM would buy me one if I was not well and off school.

“Real” magazine was my absolute fave but they got done for copying the red tops branding of red background tab and font even though the Sun, Star and Mail did the same!! Such a shame xx

Late response!

Yes, Eve magazine existed well into the early 2000s I believe. I remember buying the last ever issue and it came with a free mascara as a farewell present for readers. think it was avon mascara. The magazine free gifts were unbelievably good back then.

Was it She that had so many puns in the titles of articles? It really started a fashion for snappy headings.
Nova as I recall was the one with some great photographs, often high contrast black and white.

Underrated classic.

I think it was an early feminist magazine. What I do remember is that when I was a child many book covers quoted reviews from there.

*PUBIC!

Just 17... came out on a Tuesdsy at 75p.

It was this that introduced me to public hair removal and I was absolutely shocked! Mind you, J17 itself didn't exactly promote it "Trim a little if you must".

I was so confused and my mum is an older mum, so felt embarassed asking her.

Ooh, "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" has many references to that! Think was very intellectual .

8p! Omg faints

Hi all! Franki, exec producer and host of Mag Hags, here! I came upon this thread while researching an upcoming episode and imagine my surprise and delight to see the show namechecked!

Anyway, real reason I'm logging on is to see if anyone remembers Eve magazine from the 70s. The internet has almost NO mention of it. In fact Google's AI tells me categorically that it never existed. And yet, here I have a copy in my hands!

I've attached a pic of the cover and a few of the inside pages. I'd love to know if anyone remembers reading it and can tell me anything about the years it ran. It was published by Spotlight Publications who also published Over21 (as well as Kerrang! and Music Week) but other than that I'm struggling to find out much about it.

I know this is an old thread but maybe someone will pick it up. Fingers crossed!

Does anyone else remember the recently discontinued Stella magazine in the telegraph. I hate the telegraphy but bought it just for that magazine

I bet your pupils will remember you forever. You sound ace

There was one around only briefly in the late 90s that I loved called Minx and one edition had the free Minx vest that me and all of my indie friends loved 🤣

Brilliant thread!

As a tween, I loved Shout, Big, Look In, Top of the Pops.

As a teen I loved Sugar (over Bliss), More and Just 17.

In my 20s/ 30s, when travelling I bought Marie Claire and Grazia.

In my 40s, I like the odd Good Housekeeping. I always get the Xmas edition.

I don't buy magazines often because they're a bit expensive (same as some paperbacks) and full of ads, but I've got great memories. I can't bear to go digital.

I still have a kaftan type top, two sarongs and a comb which were magazine freebies around 20 years ago.

I remember 'Annabel' magazine,I loved it. When I was in my mid teens and off school with flu,I recall my DM buying me one. Such a pity it discontinued. I also loved Family Circle and Living. I generally don't bother with magazines nowadays. I used to get Woman and Woman's Own,also Bella and Best up until around 2005. But they started becoming more and more expensive and 'sensationalist',so I stopped buying them. Shame really,as I used to look forward to Tuesdays as 'magazine day'. The only magazines I read nowadays are the ones you get free with a newspaper.

@BertBaker Thanks! I am really sorry that The Lady is no more. I read it a few times and actually really enjoyed it.

Oh and I really loved Easy Living, and was gutted when it closed. I read it long after I’d stopped reading any of the others. It was fabulous when it started and had the kind of content that the others had ditched by then (though after a few years it started getting a bit too much about cosmetic surgery which was a bit irritating).

Getting the Christmas issues of magazines used to be so fantastic. I still sometimes buy the Good Housekeeping Christmas issue, but it’s like a caricature of itself these days. Either Nigella or Mary Berry on the cover, exactly the same as the last 15 years; and no content left apart from some recipes and whatever Sandi Toksvig can squeeze out as her Christmas musings. Possibly a few short paragraphs on what Joanna Lumley, Clare Balding, Kate Humble, Lucy Worsley and Emma Weymouth are doing for Christmas this year. If you’re lucky! The days of Christmas magazines that took days to read and enjoy are well and truly over! 😢