DEFUNCT WOMEN'S MAGAZINES

[Alleycat321]

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

That makes it even better.

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

My cousin has mentioned Mirabelle as a now defunct magazine. I managed to buy her an old copy off EBay and she was delighted, never thought she’d she one again!

I was suffering with my first UTI, too embarrassed to tell my mum and read about them in MIZZ.

Eternally grateful, quick trip to Boots followed.

(Anyone remember Dr David Devlin on the last page? 🍆)

My entire sex education is down to Dr David Delvin in my mum's SHE and also Cynthia Heimel who was a columnist I think for Cosmo. She Magazine was very feisty and feminist but relatable and real.

I still comb my hair with a wide toothed comb that came free with Mizz Magazine in 1991.

Gosh how could I have forgotten She magazine? I think those were the days when the high street did amazing clothes too, so magazines were really exciting and had really well written features.

Miss those lovely beach bags that came free with the summer issues. I loved the denim bag that came free with Elle and a gorgeous clear pvc tote one time.

I always say you could kit yourself out for your summer holidays at your local newsagents via the free gifts with magazines - sunglasses, beach mat, beach bag, a novel or two to take with you to read, flip-flops, make-up bits, skincare in dinky sizes, make-up bags, evening clutches... it was amazing.

The hot pink one??? I loved mine ❤️

I still have dozens of cuttings of the toys and sewing patterns from Woman's Realm and Woman's Weekly in the 1970s and 80s. Plus a few Jackie knitting patterns. They were brilliant!

I deleted mine when musk turned weird

I loved magazines, Look-In, Just 17 and More as a teenager 😆.

When I started working at 16, I didn't fit in with the older ladies at work and spent my lunch reading magazines as i wasnt into chatting about hosting BBQ's or picking wallaper etc, probably bought at least one everyday.

Chat was my favourite, think you can still buy that now though.

I can remember Bella, Best, Women's Weekly etc.

Was it Women's Weekly that always had a Knitting pattern?

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.

YES! I did this too. And then graduated to Just 17. They were the days!

This reminds me of my lovely late MIL who got loads of mags - Top Santé, New Woman etc and she would always give me a bundle of them to take home when we visited her 💖

I liked Nova, Great photography, and fashion shoots. It closed when I was in my teens.