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DEFUNCT WOMEN'S MAGAZINES

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Alleycat321 · 03/01/2025 11:34

I love reading women's magazines, always have.

I've just been thinking of defunct women's magazines that I have enjoyed in the past, namely

Annabel (still have a free sewing kit that came with one issue)
Essentials
Family Circle
Living
She
Woman's Realm
Woman's World
Working Woman

Can anyone remember any that I may have missed?

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Branster · 03/01/2025 11:37

Is Essentials gone? I liked it.
Options was a fantastic magazine a very, very long time ago.
I used to enjoy Top Sante but haven't liked for a few years now.

CinnamonSweet73 · 03/01/2025 13:37

I liked Company in the early 2000s, I was a huge magazine buyer then

Housewife2010 · 03/01/2025 13:41

I liked Company, Eve, Over 21 and She (Anyone remember Dr David Devlin on the last page? 🍆)
Younger ones I loved were More, Mizz and Looks.

TabloidFootprints · 03/01/2025 13:43

My mum used to get Family Circle (and Living) - I actually used to like reading FC as well, it seemed to have a bit of a progressive vibe, just a bit, there would be articles about child development, early environmental issues, that kind of thing. Although as a child I was basically fascinated by the problem page.

I used to love Minx as a young woman, and Sky, but they were quite different types of magazine.

Itisallgoingtobeok · 03/01/2025 13:43

There's a great podcast called Mag Hags. Each episode they choose an edition of a magazine and talk through the articles. It's hilarious and nostalgic. The last episode was Company magazine December 1979.

whatausername · 04/01/2025 18:51

Time and Tide - it is defunct but it's perhaps a tad old for what you're seeking

SaintedC · 04/01/2025 21:09

I miss the magazines from the 90s and early 2000s, they were such a treat.

New Woman was my favourite. Also liked Company and I liked Heat and Now in those days, I don’t buy them now.

As a teenager More which I was not allowed so had to read at school.

Just 17 I remember my older sister having which I loved as well.

SaintedC · 04/01/2025 21:10

TabloidFootprints · 03/01/2025 13:43

My mum used to get Family Circle (and Living) - I actually used to like reading FC as well, it seemed to have a bit of a progressive vibe, just a bit, there would be articles about child development, early environmental issues, that kind of thing. Although as a child I was basically fascinated by the problem page.

I used to love Minx as a young woman, and Sky, but they were quite different types of magazine.

Forgot about Sky, used to love it and The Face.

CinnamonSweet73 · 04/01/2025 22:24

Forgot New Woman, I loved that too!

JohnTheRevelator · 04/01/2025 22:52

I used to love 'Annabel'. I remember the first time I read one I must have been about 15/16 (late 70s) and was off school with a chest infection. My DM bought one for me when she was out shopping and I got it regularly from them on. Can't remember what year it was discontinued? I also loved 'Living' and 'Family Circle' when I was in my early 20s and recently married with a baby. I was gutted when they were discontinued.

LadyLapsang · 04/01/2025 23:13

Spare Rib.

Drreamingthedaysaway · 04/01/2025 23:17

Nova

SoloSofa24 · 04/01/2025 23:24

Honey was a more intelligent version of the usual Cosmopolitan-style women's mags in the 80s (no ridiculous horoscopes and so on) so of course it went under.

I read Spare Rib in the 80s too, but I am not sure if I would like what the 2025 version of it would probably be like.

Optigan · 04/01/2025 23:29

Not strictly a women's mag but there used to be a dieting magazine called "Slimming Magazine" (nothing to do with Slimming World) that had amazingly detailed 'success' stories over several pages and I used to absolutely love reading it in the early 90s.

Sherrystrull · 04/01/2025 23:30

I loved Just 17, Fast Forward, Sugar, More, Heat, Now, National Enquirer and Smash Hits!

BestIsWest · 04/01/2025 23:30

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

I still have a copy of Options from 1987.

FabulousPharmacyst · 04/01/2025 23:33

Women’s Way

mrwalkensir · 04/01/2025 23:36

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

abracadabra1980 · 04/01/2025 23:42

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...

FrogSplash · 04/01/2025 23:51

Minx was my absolute favourite.

tupperwaretowers · 04/01/2025 23:53

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

TheDowagerCountessofPembroke · 04/01/2025 23:54

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.

NPET · 05/01/2025 00:07

Housewife2010 · 03/01/2025 13:41

I liked Company, Eve, Over 21 and She (Anyone remember Dr David Devlin on the last page? 🍆)
Younger ones I loved were More, Mizz and Looks.

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.

Theoldbird · 05/01/2025 00:15

SaintedC · 04/01/2025 21:09

I miss the magazines from the 90s and early 2000s, they were such a treat.

New Woman was my favourite. Also liked Company and I liked Heat and Now in those days, I don’t buy them now.

As a teenager More which I was not allowed so had to read at school.

Just 17 I remember my older sister having which I loved as well.

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

Theoldbird · 05/01/2025 00:19

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.