ONCE more into the breach, cried Harry of England, and once more into the picture steps JANETTE GOODMAN of Scotland. Shakespeare and Agincourt were responsible for the first situation, the demand of Janette's fans for the second. Elegant, attractive and big-eyed, Janette is a fashion model with a flair for looking particularly attractive in lingerie.
Spick No 88 - March 1961
Lisa Scott came from Canada and met and married a Middlesex Englishman she bumped into at the Tower of London. ToCo couldn’t resist telling us she lost her head.
She became a British subject, settled in North London and worked as a secretary who really wanted to get into modelling (how many times have we read that?). But she did indeed manage to make an entry and appeared in some TV commercials and did some fashion and photographic modelling.
When Lisa wasn’t strutting her stuff on the catwalk, she loved flaunting it whilst skin diving and water-skiing in Cornwall. That, and her passion for volleyball, must be how she stayed so trim after becoming a mum.
Two nice pictures of Michelle that I have selected from the private collection of negatives to show here. I am very fortunate to get to see them all and select the ones that I like, and hopefully, you will enjoy them as well. Just about every picture I have of Michelle shows her smiling, and she really does appear to be having fun and enjoying herself; it never comes across as forced. There will be more to come. I do have some very sexy ones of her lying on a bed, smoking, and drinking. Plenty to look forward to.
With us at the moment but all set to go Grecian is BARBARA PAYNE, a very enchanting example of how to look lovely without hardly trying.
Barbara is a nurse in London and has a boyfriend in Greece. She met him when she was on holiday there. There was a kind of click, a spark as mutual excitement induced electricity and an invitation to pause in the sun and sip a Greek aperitif.
Back in London, Barbara realised she was madly in love, so she has now applied for a nursing position in a Greek hospital and is waiting impatiently for the official answer. As a Grecian nurse she will be so much nearer to her Grecian Adonis.
"Well, he's not actually Adonis," said Barbara, "he's Thermistopholes Constanation."
Sounds fun.
Span No 243 - November 1974
Two nice pictures of Valetta relaxing at home with a book and what looks like a glass of sherry, while at the same time giving us a glimpse of her stocking tops.
A new and extremely charming pin-up girl we have just discovered is GRETA BERRY.
Here are just a couple of pics of Greta as a kind of introductory tableau that will put you in the mood for more, unless you've gore off beauty and taken up wallpapering.
If you've got more sense than to do anything as stupid as exchanging true joy for sticky wallpaper, then look out in future issues for features on Greta, and we guarantee you'll love her.
Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971
Well, first of all the sun was a flaming gold and secondly, I was in the park. Exuberantly I jumped the low, fancy railing and bounded exhilaratedly over the grass. And then what happened? I'll tell you. A man with a peaked cap and a corkscrew outlook came and read me an Act of Parliament. It was all about how I could be taken to Tower Hill and shot out of a cannon for walking on the grass. "Blow yer into a thousand bits of meat, it would," he said, "so hoppit."
There was no sense in arguing—| had an appointment with someone a lot more acceptable than he was. I found her sitting under her parasol on the park wall. London salesgirl JANET DE BOLLET. I mentioned how I'd nearly been executed.
"I've seen those cannon," said Janet, "you could have been shot all the way over Tower Bridge. Still, all that lovely grass—you were just a little bit naughty, weren't you?"
I never thought a nice girl like Janet would side with a man wearing a peaked cap and a twisted nervous system. But it's the unexpected quality of feminine reactions that makes girls so interlocutorily interesting, especially when, like Janet, they're of French extraction.
Anyway, she made room on the wall for me, and we watched London go by as we shared a packet of crisps. Janet glowed in the sunshine, and I forgot all about the man with a peaked cap and a sense of umbrage. It was our kind of day. Lots of occasions are made to remember, don't you think?
Do you remember those happy days when a blushing girl hurriedly fixing a slipped suspender by a bus stop made an exhilarating start to your day? Well, it's not a completely obsolete contretemps, you'll be pleased to know. "If it's all right with you," said the blushing Miss de Bollet sarcastically, "it's all right with me, of course."
Span No 186 - February 1970
Final 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.
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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
Let's start the month off on a high with a delightful picture of Valetta relaxing at home.
