A Fashion Moment With Woman And Home: April 1965
Years ago I found a stack of these vintage UK Woman and Home magazines at the thrift store. I only bought a few of them and I’ve always kind of wished that I’d gotten some more. Anyway- there are lots of great vintage advertisements in them. (I’ve shared some other Woman and Home pages in the past here and here) The best and worst thing about vintage magazines are the ads: they are simultaneously great and hilarious…. and depressing. In this issue, for example, there was an ad for Walpamur Emulsion paint with insecticide in it that boasts “No fly can settle on this paint and live”. Despite their claims to the contrary, I think that no child could touch that paint and live either. But I digress.
This April 1965 edition featured a 20 page pullout with knitting patterns, an article about Terylene dresses available to purchase, several hairdressing ads with great 60’s hairstyles, and quite a few Bri Nylon advertisements. Ah yes, the introduction of synthetic materials- too bad we never came out on the other side of that trend.
