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?

Many of the ones mentioned I liked, especially New Woman and Mizz.

But I also loved Easy Living magazine. (I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet...) I still have a pair of oven gloves that I got from there as a free gift. (Around 2009.)

I like the look of Easy Living

Real magazine was absolutely FANTASTIC til they got done for using a red tab logo like Red magazine but it was way better! If any journos are on here please bring it back!! X

It really was! i didn't know that about about them getting sued for copying Red magazine.

I loved Easy Living & Red. Such a pure form of inspiration & escapism.

yes, Woman's Weekly was full of knitting magazines
I used to see it often (60s-70s) as a family friend used to pass hers on to my mum
it also had a problem page, I think Mary Marryat was the person answering, every so often there would be an answer where the question wasn't printed, eg
Dear Miss S, what you describe is quite normal but you may find it reassuring to consult your family doctor
Dear Mrs B, please make every effort to put these thoughts out of your mind and concentrate on your husband and children

I used to pore over these...trying to make sense of them. I don't think people appreciate now how difficult it was then to get information!

Ooh magazines! Do they still sell them? I’ve not been in a newsagents for decades. My mum used to buy She and I always had it when she was done.

I’m sure I must’ve bought them too, but I can’t remember any I bought regularly. When I was first married, my neighbour used to give me all her interiors magazines, Country Life etc.

Nice to see so much love for Red. In a previous life I was a long term freelancer on the editorial team. Loved it.

One of my best memories is sitting for a fortnight next to a couple of Met police officers who were doing a stakeout on a drug den opposite the Bauer offices in Camden. Very exciting.

I used to love Minx magazine, I still have the black vest. Also B and Company were good.

I LOVED it.

I was interviewed for Honey more years ago than I care to remember. 1980s. I can’t even remember what it was about! I think a neighbour was the writer and I fitted some category she was writing about.

I think Red is about the only one of these in print now. Such a shame, I used to love my magazine fix. So much more relaxing than scrolling online.

I liked Easy Living. It covered a wider range of subjects than most women’s magazines.

Today, I found a copy of Bunty from 1993. It appeared to be aimed at 8-12 year old girls and had lots of cartoon stories, including old favourite The Four Marys.

I do remember Catch, but I read Mizz and Just 17 more (especially when it was the monthly mag, J17). Ah, the 90s were the days, back when the cover girls wore satin and glittery lurex plus a tiara and hair mascara, plus some face and body glitter to top it all off. These magazines had their own slang, “fave”, “spesh”, “boyf”, “sussed”, “thang” etc.

Shout was the magazine your mum would rather you read. It wasn’t sensationalist or raunchy at all, but it did cover some difficult subjects such as bereavement. Shout had an agony aunt called Cathy who promised a personal reply to everyone who wrote to her. I never wrote in myself, but I always thought Cathy deserved a round of applause for doing that.

I adored Jackie as a young teen then graduated into Just17 (when I was about 15)

I also absolutely loved Misty. It was a bit like Bunty but all the stories were supernatural. Some of them were utterly terrifying. I'd love to read that again...

I used to buy ‘pregnancy and birth’ late 90s I think ? I was a teenager and I should not have been into that but I wanted a baby (my dm went mad when she found them and I lied and said it was from my child development gcse class and was part of research for a project !) when in reality I was up to all sorts with a pregnancy obsession 🤦

I still have all my old Cosmopolitans from the 1990s (I was on their Student Board) and the editorial content can sometimes be very surprising. One issue has a 6 page feature on William Blake.

Company
19
Glamour
Cosmopolitan
More
Minx
Red

I’ve got a Readly Subscription at the moment and Red still exists!

Minx was the best, sort of like Loaded for women but much smarter and sharper and funnier and more nuanced.
'For girls with a lust for life'

I loved Jackie as a teenager then in six form at university I went on to Company as my first 'grown up' mag. I can still remember the face of the model on the front cover of the copy I bought the day dad drove me up, because I kept it and read it over and over as a kind of comfort thing.

Wow this thread takes me back to the 90s!

At secondary school, reading Just 17, Mizz and More (position of the fortnight oo-er!) magazines

Also later 90s I bought Sky magazine- vaguely remember a pregnant Victoria Beckham on the cover in ?1998/99

Also vague memories of The Face magazine, I remember being in an art class at school in the early 90s and we were cutting up magazines for a project

One was the Face with this young teenage/women, a few shots with her nipples out me and my friends were like ooooh...it was Kate Moss!

When I had my Saturday job in the early 70s a chunk of my wages went on Petticoat magazine.
It felt so sophisticated and grown up 🙂

@abracadabra1980 thats pretty much my list from teens through to 40’s.

im glad others have mentioned Real - I loved it and then it disappeared without warning. I also liked New Woman but wasn’t sad when they disappeared, I’d emailed them complaining about a very disappointing TWAW article and then poof they were gone.

I still buy Red, the occasional vogue and I do love country living. Somethings for a flight I’ll by psychologies - which is always better than I imagined it would be, but has a tendency for repetition

I remember a magazine in the early 1990s called Me. It wasn’t around for long. The agony aunt was a red haired woman called Celia.

I remember a fortysomething woman writing to Dr David Devlin in the 1980s saying that she was dating a man in his eighties but he wouldn’t wear a condom and she was nervous of pregnancy, which the guy had refuted stating that he was too old to father a baby. Dr Devlin replied that a 101 year old man was reputed to have fathered a child, so “unless he’s 102 or older, he’d better don the con”.

Me too. The new Red is just not my thing and easy living was a fabulous read