DEFUNCT WOMEN'S MAGAZINES

As a teen I loved 'Shout' magazine and when I got a bit older and was off out clubbing, 'Ministry' magazine.

Misty was a favourite. My school had a box/shelf with copies of this magazine and I read them all.

Eve, Honey- is Prima still going?

Marie Claire was another one I loved!

I saw a very thin OK magazine for sale in TESCO at over £4. I don't know how they survive

Cosmopolitan. Is that still going?

Diva, Pink News, Shout. When I was coming out

I loved She magazine

I was a teen in the late 70s and 80s so most of my favourites have been mentioned.

There was an early song lyrics one I loved called Disco 45. It was printed in rough paper.

Jackie
Blue Jeans
Mates
Photo Love
Just Seventeen - the trial issue came free with Smash Hits, same creative team of David Hepworth, Mark Ellen & co. I still have some promo badges somewhere!

The Hit - that was also music-based.

In the 80s there was a brilliant food magazine called Eat Soup. It was funny, clever, not at all serious. Only ran for a few issues. I loved it. I've still got a few copies somewhere in the attic.

I loved magazines!

I used to love getting a kids magazine annual at Christmas and loved getting the occasional teen/women's magazine title in annual form when I was older. Still have my sister's Pink Annual 1978 which I purloined.

I read so many!

Sugar
Bliss
19
Eve
Company
Looks
More
Mizz
Real
Essentials
B
Now
Heat
Scarlet

These are more teen-ish/pop/music ones...
Jackie
More
Look
Just Seventeen
Sky
The Face
Look in
Number One
Vox
Melody Maker
Muzik

I bought an old Misty annual at a school fete when I was about nine. It really scared me, so I asked my mum to give it away again. I remember one feature was about ghosts in Drury Lane Theatre, including the Man in Grey in his tricorne hat. A few years later, I regretted giving the annual away as I wanted to read it again.

I loved She in the 60s and 70s - it was quite racy for its time,.and had really interesting articles.

I loved my magazines!! I’ had a job after school in a newsagents, what joy!!! I had so many weekly mags in my teens - late 70s - that my Dad said I’d made the house wonky with their weight! I had Pink, Jackie, Diana, and short lived ones like Mates and Fab208 . I kept some from the 80s and 90s as well as pretty well all the Family Circle and Living ones… I just get Prima and Good Housekerping now (cheap subscriptions) I think I kept the publishers going single-handed my😆
Anyone remember an 80s one called New Woman? In the same style as Company & Cosmo.

Me too. The new Red is just not my thing and easy living was a fabulous read

I remember a magazine in the early 1990s called Me. It wasn’t around for long. The agony aunt was a red haired woman called Celia.

I remember a fortysomething woman writing to Dr David Devlin in the 1980s saying that she was dating a man in his eighties but he wouldn’t wear a condom and she was nervous of pregnancy, which the guy had refuted stating that he was too old to father a baby. Dr Devlin replied that a 101 year old man was reputed to have fathered a child, so “unless he’s 102 or older, he’d better don the con”.

@abracadabra1980 thats pretty much my list from teens through to 40’s.

im glad others have mentioned Real - I loved it and then it disappeared without warning. I also liked New Woman but wasn’t sad when they disappeared, I’d emailed them complaining about a very disappointing TWAW article and then poof they were gone.

I still buy Red, the occasional vogue and I do love country living. Somethings for a flight I’ll by psychologies - which is always better than I imagined it would be, but has a tendency for repetition

When I had my Saturday job in the early 70s a chunk of my wages went on Petticoat magazine.
It felt so sophisticated and grown up 🙂

Wow this thread takes me back to the 90s!

At secondary school, reading Just 17, Mizz and More (position of the fortnight oo-er!) magazines

Also later 90s I bought Sky magazine- vaguely remember a pregnant Victoria Beckham on the cover in ?1998/99

Also vague memories of The Face magazine, I remember being in an art class at school in the early 90s and we were cutting up magazines for a project

One was the Face with this young teenage/women, a few shots with her nipples out me and my friends were like ooooh...it was Kate Moss!

I loved Jackie as a teenager then in six form at university I went on to Company as my first 'grown up' mag. I can still remember the face of the model on the front cover of the copy I bought the day dad drove me up, because I kept it and read it over and over as a kind of comfort thing.

Minx was the best, sort of like Loaded for women but much smarter and sharper and funnier and more nuanced.
'For girls with a lust for life'

I’ve got a Readly Subscription at the moment and Red still exists!

Company
19
Glamour
Cosmopolitan
More
Minx
Red

I still have all my old Cosmopolitans from the 1990s (I was on their Student Board) and the editorial content can sometimes be very surprising. One issue has a 6 page feature on William Blake.