wanted... a decent woman's magazine

[sansouci]

What's happened to Marie Claire? I haven't touched it in 2 months. The only interesting one for a reasonably intelligent read is (shudder at name!) Good Housekeeping. Or am I getting old? Vanity Fair can be good, too.

Most of my magazines are cut up as I make scrapbooks from the fashion pages to give me inspiration.

My daughter then cuts up what is left and makes pictures and the ones that are left intact I take into work as I work for a charity supporting families, so they can take the home either to read or let their kids cut up!

Used to read Marie Claire, think it went off the boil yrs ago. When I stopped enjpying it I starter to read Red, still my favourite. Brilliant mix of fashion, parent-y stuff, and the odd bit of sex stuff to remind you what all your bits are for!

I do them all,

Eve is the best,
Red is a bit yummy mummy I think...and too perfect lifestyles
She, was good but has gone a bit holistic, too many articles on your inner self!
Marie Claire - its OK, but too fashionable
Heat - well got to know how Jade is doing!
Economist - some intellectual rading to offset all the drivel above!

Got given Harpers & Queen subscription once...made me feel inadequate for buying things that cost less than a Grand.

I like the new one, Grazi, the new weekly...nice mix of celeb gossip and wearable fashion.

...and I am a fantastically fast reader, can easliy read a book in a night, finish of a mag in an hour, magazines are my vice!

..and when finished, i give mine to my cleaner, who shares them with her daughter and sister and when they are finished, pass to her next door neighbour!

I buy Eve, but not religiously. I don't think its quite as good as it used to be - it used to have a lot more non-fashion did you know, experts tell you how to style stuff (I read recently that the BBC had sold it so I'm guessing there may be even less of that in the future).

If youre after an intellegent read than Word magazine might be worth a punt.... I buy it for DH and it does have a lot of music in it, but its by no means a blokesonly mag has lots of entertaining, well written articles about books and entertainment

Oh and Word has fantastic free cds with it too

They're all written by incredibly poised and soignee journalists, you know

Think they're all rubbish and lightweight really (but, obviously, not any articles written by journos on here!) Used to buy loads then cut them out when on an economy drive. Now, if I do read one, can't believe I ever used to regularly.

I twigged it was you ages ago, MI! I reasoned there couldn't be two people with that name!

Aloha, now, she IS soignee. As soignee as a soignee thing.

I saw Word for the first time the other day and bought it to discover it was the grown up Smash Hits team of my youth - Mark Ellen and David Hepworth (not Neil Tennant though!). I have yet to enjoy a magazine as much as I loved Smash Hits in its golden days.

DH flooded the bathroom (and wrecked the magazine) before I had a chance to read about Rufus Wainwright though

Also like best & woman. Woman was the only mag to say that breastfeeding cuts the risk of breast cancer - all the glossies had big features on breast cancer awareness in october last year but NOT ONE - gh, w&h, red, eve, prima - even mentioned how bf helps. Felt this was irresponsible - loads of drugs & other worthy advice given just not the bf word!!! Why not???????

That is interesting milward. I've noticed very few cite b/feeding in this way.
Me, I'm still mourning the demise of Jackie,Blue Jeans and Photo Love. (Can you believe how 'with it' the latter used to be-real pictures..gasp!!)

Love the phrase 'with it'. Often used by mil when she's bought herself something jaunty from M&S bless her!

I only really read Eve these days.

On the subject of mags,I was reading Caitlin Moran in the Times yesterday & she was writing about Smash Hits & musicmags of the 80's.There was another music magazine very similar to Smash Hits that I used to buy & I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.Dh can't either.Can anyone put me out of my misery?

Stopped getting GH as sooooo fed up with their Having It All, Learning to Say No articles, boooooring!
I get Private Eye, Heat and Radio Times (yes, its a good mag and I CHOOSE my crap on telly!). Also two local papers NO national papers.
Might try a few others mentioned here, can't bear Vogue-type mags, used to like Tatler years ago
Oh, forgot the zillions of newsletters I get from various autism and disability charities (which I genuinely enjoy).

There's a magazine called The Week which summarises the week's newspapers in an informative but very dry and witty way - I love it as it keeps me up to date on serious stories as well as featuring sections like Celebrity Gossip and 'It must be true, I read it in the tabloids'! Well worth a subscription. There's even a weekly synopsis of what's been going on in Ambridge.

Yes, This Week is excellent. Davros, sooo agree with you re those articles. Zzzzzzzzzz
Can't believe editors let them churn out the same old crap.
Growing up in the 70s in the Pacific, we were surrounded by Aussies, so used to read my mum's friends' 'Cleos' Now they were racy as hell!!!

Anyone remember the short lived soft porn magazines for women (around 90-91 I think?)

Anyone read or seen 'Scarlet' magazine?? Quite 'interesting'!!!

have bought new "glossy weekly" Grazia, today, will report back later......(initial impression: don't like title, pages feel a bit odd, only front is at all glossy and there are lots of facial peel goes wrong type headlines. sigh. why do i do this to myself???)

Never seen either of these. Note to self-must undertake an immediate trawl of newsagent in the name of research.

moondog - Scarlet is worth flicking through, if just for the pictures - especially if there is an old lady watching you!!!

good story abotu 'scarlet'.
My BF saw it in bookshop and was 'browsing' through it thinking, "this looks interesting". Anyway, she mentioned it to her DH and he bought it for us as a jokey stockign filler for christmas.
Christmas day she was in teh kitchen doing the dinner, walked into the lounge to find her dad flickign through it. AAAGGGHHHH, cue "oo, look at that out of the window", whilst snatching it from his hands.

that should be her DH bought it for 'her' not 'us'!

ahem. is this a bit risque then?