To hate Red Magazine after years of loving it

[merrygoround51]

Yes I know buying magazines is wasteful and unnecessary but I always enjoyed Red and in the olden days Easy Living magazines.

Red now seems to be going all arty photos and hipster. I am I just too old now? Is that it. Do I need to move on to Woman and Home ? I am not high fashion enough for Vogue

What mags do you read?

Another Country Life fan here - I spend a lot of time on their website pondering which country estate to buy

I don't often buy magazines but when I do it's either Country Life or Country Living or else interiors ones - usually Elle Decoration or Living Etc. I don't have any interest in fashion or beauty products but I love interiors and architecture.

SFX and SciFi Now...used to like Red but tbh can't be fucked with women's mags now!

I still like Prima and get it on subscription and GH.

DC Thomson being mentioned in the article brought back memories They are the ones who owned the Mandy comic i bought and read every week as a kid.

I used to be an avid magazine reader over the years and would spend £££ on weeklies and monthlies.

I started off with Big and Smash Hits in the early 90s for info about my favourite boy band (new kids on the block) and gossip about Neighbours.

Then moved into Just 17, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire and More from mid to early 20s.

From there, into Closer, New, Grazia etc for a good mix of fashion, gossip and real life stories. I stopped buying them when I had children due to time and money. My mum still buys closer and saves them for me. When I read them, I barely know what celebs/reality tv star they are writing about and I just don’t enjoy them anymore.

Magazines have played a huge part of my life over the years and I have had so much enjoyment of them. In an attempt to get back into magazines, I tried Woman and Home, but it was full of white, middle class women, whose lifestyles I had absolutely nothing in common with.

Now, magazines have been replaced with browsing on line on mumsnetting.

Try Stella, it comes in the Sunday Telegraph and has some good, not flouncy celeb interviews and interesting articles on oddly varied topics (menopause one week, psychedelics the next)

I also read Good Food

Oh and they're def aiming at 40+

Sorry posted 1/3 of my post

And again ffs, starting again - My mum reads Woman magazine and Woman and Home and I quite like them too. And they're definitely aimed at 40 plus.

What I attempted to post above ^ but somehow messed up

Agree - started out loving it and DH got me a subscription last Christmas but now I hardly ever read them. All the travel, clothes etc is just too high end / fashion to be relateable to me now.

There's definitely a gap in the market for 40s-50s magazine. At 43, i'm too young for my DMs Good Housekeeping cast offs. Mainly buy interiors or dress making mags for holidays and long train trips now.

And yet for instance W and H currently have Helen Mirren on the cover. I think shes great but there is a bloody big difference between 40s and 70s.

@SerenDippitty I loved Real - only lasted about 18mths I think.

I also enjoyed NewWoman. Red always seemed like a poor relation

Thanks for the tip to check my online library account! On Press Reader now, cancelled Readly and saving £8 a month now!

Plus there are lots of great trashy Aussie/American mags on Press Reader, like Woman's Day and Us Weekly

Summer of 2006 i felt i was getting too old for NW plus they seemed to dumb down and this was when i switched to Eve.

Real was great Always plenty of interesting stuff to read

Grazia! Good mix of fluff and decent features plus accessible fashion. Love it

I recently came across a magazine called Be Kind whilst searching for something decent to read on a train journey. Really enjoyed it. Full of good, interesting articles. I subscribe to Red but am going to cancel in favour of Be Kind. Check it out.

@WellTidy I came here to mention eve! I used to love that magazine! When they stopped publishing it they switched my subscription to grazia but I hated it

I subscribe to readly now and like the interiors magazines and Elle, vogue, etc. I did used to like Red but not read it in ages

Kronks i remember them doing that when Eve stopped It did not go down well.

Im not a subscriber. I buy my mags in the shops but i remember the complaints.

I'm delighted that I've passed the knowledge of Pressreader on! Does anyone remember the relaunch of Nova in the 90s? It was fab but didn't last. I used to love my mum's Honey in the 80s. Does anyone remember Etcetera in the 80s? It was like a more intelligent Grazia. I loved it

www.magforum.com/glossies/womens_glossies.htm

Does anyone else really miss 'Zest'? I've never found a mag that even compares. It was great.

Its on the list in the link ive just put up Loads of womens glossies listed in alphabetical order. Including a bit of their history and pics of old covers.

What about Sky magazine? I’d say it was circa 1990 and had lots of Johnny depp, Winona Ryder type articles .

Helenadove you are so right- we are the gap. Maybe they think we are just too busy to read mags 🤪

@HelenaDove. fascinating link, thank you! Saw Woman’s World there, used to read that in the 80s, really liked it.

I’m intrigued by Platinum and might give it a go. I hate most of the weeklies, and at 58 feel I’m still too young for Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Realm, and find most of the monthlies repetitive and/or unrelateable.

I used to buy Glamour magazine in my 20's just for the fab freebies!!

I also used to enjoy reading my mum's Reader's Digest. I'd love to get a subscription for that but they don't deliver the UK English one to where I live in Europe.

I sometimes get Sante which is all about healthy eating, staying skinny slim and vitamins. I only get it for the expensive makeup freebies!

Red is okay, it is just a bit all over the shop; empowerment, career, film celebrities and looking like Nigella Lawson in your 50's, whilst seeing adverts with that Jenner lass in Dior/Chanel/ red lipstick for a lady with body and experience. I can't be arsed with such a mag.

I want one that is tongue in cheek about serving fish fingers and chips for dinner, that focusses on women doing real jobs (gimme a week's diary of a farmer, a scientist, a shop worker, a GP, a vicar etc), tell me what time of the year to plant what, do a focus on everyday hidden illnesses/ disabilities and more.