DEFUNCT WOMEN'S MAGAZINES

That makes it even better.

That list of women’s mags and then What Caravan jumping out was so funny.

I was fascinated with the Oz/NZ mags when I went there on hols. Obsessed with minor UK royals to a degree I hadn’t ever seen in the U.K.

Does anyone remember Catch from the 90's? The had a nightclub section where they would go to a different club and ask people where their clothes were from and who they had their eyes on. It all seemed just so glam!

New Woman was my absolute favourite though along with Company magazine. I bought them religiously

Early 90's Sky.
90's The Face.
New woman was great for quite a long time.

There was a wellness magazine called Bare that only lasted a couple of years around the millennium, I loved that one.

I’ve just read ‘What Caravan?’ In Dave coaches accent

I loved More at school, and Looks at college (was so into my hair and make up then!) I still have my Looks compact mirror.

And my dad's Readers Digest 😆

I used to be a magazine addict, my dad put it in his wedding speech that the paper shop owner was wearing a black arm band when I moved away. I loved
She
Company
New Woman
Looks
Marie Claire
Family Circle
Living
Smash Hits
NME
Annabel
Elle
What Caravan
Real
Woman's Realm

I don't buy actual magazines any more, I just read them through my Readly subscription, saves money & having a mountain of read issues to get rid of.

Choosing a magazine at the train station kiosk or branch of WH Snith was such a treat and a ritual! I'd build in extra time to browse before every journey. Very sad when all the station kiosks and WH Smith branches closed down.

I also remember a time (90's/early 2000's?) when magazines had very large free gifts/full size beauty products attached. No longer just sample sizes, but the afore-mentioned flip-flops, fabric beach bags, full-size shampoos or foundation.

Company on my train journey used to be my absolute few hours of heaven! Also used to love More! Actually funny, am reading Fiona Gibson’s latest rom com at the mo, she used to write in More I think!

When I was a bit older I used to like getting Christmas Good Housekeeping but it ended up making me feel inadequate with the gorgeous blonde curly haired children in their Victorian nightdresses hanging stockings on the mantlepiece with the mummy immaculately dressed to host a fabulous Christmas party so I gave that up.

My df job involved the sale women's magazines when I was growing up. So I had access to tonnes of them and read them weeks before publication at entirely inappropriate ages.

I read Mates and Fab when I was about 10 and then graduated to 19 and Over 21 in my teens
My dsis loved Honey

I miss Woman's Journal... and surprisingly Living magazine when getting shopping from Sainsburys. For many years I made a Christmas cake from Living.

Such a nostalgic thread! I loved a magazine - Smash Hjts, Mizz, Shout then onto Sugar, Bliss, Cosmo and Glamour.
Also loved reading my Granny's Take a Break, Woman, Women's Own etc. Totally forgot about Fast Forward until now as well.

I used to always buy my daughter a magazine at the airport when heading on holiday but now she is 13, there doesn't seem to be a market for that age anymore. Inevitable I guess with social media but made me feel a bit sad.

I loved Bliss as a teenager. I remember Bliss and Sugar launched about the same time as each other and we were all obsessed with them (me and the girls in my class). They had great free gifts too and some genuinely decent advice from what I remember too. Loved them and feel so nostalgic now remembering them. I loved Just 17, Smash Hits and Shout. When I got older I liked Heat and Glamour.

Also, does anyone remember ordering from Reddirect? it was a shopping supplement that came with Red magazine. I ordered a lovely work bag from there in 2013.

In my opinion, this was the golden age of magazines. I loved Company, Real, Glamour, Eve. Be Magazine. so so many others.

And the gifts that came with them were brilliant. I miss the little diaries that. came every year with the January edition of Elle magazine in the 90s-00s. Bags, tshirts, sarongs, flipflops. vests. makeup.

even the ones that are still in print are a pale imitation of their 90s and noughties selves. Red, Elle.. just a load of twaddle now

Oh when I was an early teen I LOVED "More". I think that was the one that had the article in asking girls what they called their boyfriend's (or brother's) 🍆.
OK it sounds silly and childish now, but when you're younger (whatever we were) it was so funny. It made such a change at school from the boys finding names for our body parts.

I liked Red when I was about 19. I thought it was very grown up.
I think mum read She or something with a similar one word title.
I used to love Take a Break.
These days I will sometimes read The Lady as it’s so much more general than others. It’s not about having babies or cooking for a family.

Mollie Makes crafty magazine, I was part way through a subscription when it went.

Minx was my absolute favourite.

Oh a fellow magazineaholic! I LOVED them - and I still do - but I'm now at an age where I'm not catered for (mid 50's). Sad. I so much prefer turning one glossy page after another, to reading them online - it's not the same. I can still remember ordering my Jackie to be delivered every Wednesday to the local newsagents, (8p) and the pure delight of going to collect it and relishing every page once I got home.

I buy an odd Closer or New these days, rarely OK - pure tat and switch off stuff for my brain, but am dreading the day when I no longer recognise the people they feature... faves over the years have been ..

Tammy
Jackie
Your Pet
Your Dog
Just 17
Blue Jeans
Company
Cosmopolitan
Marie Claire
Elle
Red
Vogue (depending upon who was on the front)
Homes & Garden
Interiors
House Beautiful
Woman & Home
Woman
Country Life

and I absolutely LOVED as subscription to one of my faves for birthday/Christmas...

My grandmother used to get She. Some of the stories were pretty much soft porn!

Women’s Way

I loved a magazine back in the day. She in the 80s was great.

I still have a copy of Options from 1987.