Manja Peruccia

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Austrian Glamour

Sometimes no issue is complete without the introduction of at least one model from the Continent. Formerly an undeniably fair girl, MANJA PERUCCIA is now trying out the brunette look.

As long as the basic qualities are their nice teeth, nice smile, etcetera-the colour of the hair is almost an irrelevant incidental. Basically, indeed, Manja has always been a Continental cutie.

A ballet student, with her eye on growing up to be a beautiful ballerina, Manja is Austrian-born. You can't ever separate glamour from Vienna.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Paula - Private Collection

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A Day Out With Paula

Fancy a day out in the countryside with Paula? I know I would. Three nice, natural, candid pictures of Paula, with her adjusting her stockings as she gets out of the car. Were they posed? Who knows, but does it really matter?

Hazel Shaw

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Hazel Shaw - Print Set Part 2

Another four pictures from the Hazel Shaw print set "When Winter Comes Beautiful Britons No. 97." These were not selected for publication but sold as part of a 12-print set. See original post.

Cecelia Rodrigues

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How Handsome Are You?

Are you lean, muscular and incontrovertibly masculine? If you are, and you're also a six-foot-tall type, then brother, you're it with CECELIA RODRIGUES.

The fact is, Cecelia loves good food, gay night life and handsome men. In what order? That, said Cecelia, can change from day to day.

Cecelia is a 22-year-old London girl now resident in Brighton, where she works as a receptionist. She meets the most maddeningly handsome men every day. Maddening is right, said Cecelia, they've all got beautiful women with them.

Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971

Cherie Scott

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Pride Of The Scotts

Well, many a Scots girl has graced our pages and brought many a smile and many a sigh to appreciative males everywhere, including (just for the record) Albania.

Pride of all the Scots is CHERIE SCOTT, music graduate, and a girl who at the tender age of 22 can fence, skate, swim and throw you from here to eternity at judo.

So wouldn't you be proud of her if she belonged to you? All right, Luke, don't go all coy. You can always go to music classes and look for one just like Cherie.

Luke could be unlucky. There probably aren't any others just like Cherie.

They don't grow like chestnuts, you know. Just one every so often. Auburn, vivacious, cheeky, and with those classically symmetrical statistics of 36-24-36.

Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971

Hazel Shaw

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Hazel Shaw - When Winter Comes - Print Set

While digging through a box of books recently, I came across this nice set of 12 prints featuring Hazel Shaw in D.K.s. They were used for a series in Beautiful Britons No. 97 (November 1963) When Winter Comes.
Hazel was not typically associated with wearing D.K.s, and I know that many of you may not favour them. I also fall into that category, but I believe we can make an exception on this occasion as Hazel looks fabulous in her tight-fitting, semi-see-through D.K.s.
The four pictures below were the ones featured in that issue of Beautiful Britons; I have the other eight that were not published, which I will share in the upcoming weeks. Sadly, Hazel is no longer with us, she is certainly one of my favourites.
This set of 12 prints was available to purchase directly from ToCo for just £1 in 1963.

I often wonder how many of these print sets were actually sold; there must truly be thousands of them stored in drawers, at the bottom of wardrobes, and in boxes under beds. With a decent scanner and the marvels of modern picture software, the results can turn out quite well. The images used below have been reduced in quality for web use. If you have any of these sets that you would like to sell or lend to me so that I can share them here for all of us to enjoy, please contact me. What good are they doing hidden away? Sadly, someday someone will have to clear them out when you are gone, and often they are just thrown away without understanding their origins. I see or hear about this far too often.

When Winter Comes

For some of us it's already here. Well, we're all right, Jack, we've found out where we stored our overcoats. And HAZEL SHAW is all right, too, for Hazel has found some long underwear, and this together with the new fashion in long boots should see her through the ice and snow in fair old comfort.
Hazel hasn't bought the boots yet, but at the time of going to press the snow hadn't arrived.
Hazel is using the interim period between autumnal tints and winter snow to try out her D.K.s and take her time about buying the boots. The D.K.s are fine, but she doesn't want to rush into buying boots which are so long they come up to her ears. 

Melanie Cooper

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Fan Club, Please Note

An awfully nice bloke called Mr. Garfield Foley wrote to say that as secretary of the MELANIE COOPER fan club, he'd like to know if there were any irresistible pin-up photographs available of her.

There are. And they're available not only to members of her fan club but to all readers.

Spick No 193 - December 1969

Sonje Arvold

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Norwegian Miss

Yes, they miss SONJE ARVOLD back in Norway.

For nineteen years she lived an entirely quiet life in the north of that country, and then decided it was just too quiet.

So, she came to London eight months ago to work as an au pair girl, and the agency found her a cosy niche with a family in Golders Green. Sonje couldn't get over the exciting enjoyment of the Soho clubs at first, but she settled down in the end and adjusted her outlook so that she wouldn't feel so giddy.

Saturdays are her days off. That's when you'll see this lovely Norwegian miss all caught up in the London scene.

Spick No 212 - July 1971

Valetta - Private Collection

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Valetta Gives Us A Sneaky Peek

How about two fabulous snapshots of Valetta playfully revealing a peek of her stocking tops, while managing to look completely unaware that they were on display for all to see?

Janet Neill

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Merry Mrs

Now happily married is Scots model JANET NEILL.

Well, life is always what you make it, when you're married there are two of you to make it well worthwhile. It's fun finding out that life is fun. It's hard work being miserable. With Janet it's natural to be gay. Husbands, like life, can be fun too.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961

Paula - Private Collection

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Larking About In The Woods With Paula

Paula gives us a tantalising look at those fantastic legs. Stay tuned for more later this month as Paula dazzles us with more pictures in her nurse's uniform.

Sadie Milligan

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Happy Birthday - Sadie Milligan

I was reminded over the weekend that Easter Sunday, 31st March, marked Sadie Milligan's 86th birthday. I can confirm that she is well and thriving in Australia. It was 60 years ago that she left Ardrossan for a new life down under.

Let's hope it was all that she had hoped for and more. Let's enjoy a few pictures of the very lovely Sadie Milligan, who was about 19 to 20 years old when most of these pictures were taken.

Paula - Private Collection

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Easter Sunday with Paula.

A break from her nursing duties, Paula takes a leisurely stroll in the woods, stylishly dressed, hinting at surprises to come. It's all about the anticipation, after all.