It's true that while Long Johns were popular with a bygone generation, they're not for today's feminine whiz kids.
There are exceptions, of course.
Scots girl BRIDGET NORTH finds them absolutely it in the cold weather, all kind of snug and warm and cosy.
They go with the new fashions and providing you don't wear a midi or a maxi with a split skirt nobody will know you're wearing grandmother's reach-me-downs.
Well, what else can you ask HAZEL SHAW when you find her sunbathing? Somehow or other you've got to launch into an airy-fairy conversation that will sound as if you haven't noticed what a nature-lover she is.
Hazel is a lovely nature-lover.
She's also a lovely secretary who works in Glasgow.
Her Scottish accent is as intoxicating as heather wine.
Actually, no, she doesn't go in for politics. She was willing to but as soon as she realised, like so many of us, that they only disturb the peace she gave them up.
She took up sunbathing instead.
Delicious.
Very cute indeed is MANJA PERUCCIA,
Austrian girl studying ballet in West Germany and taking time off occasionally to be a pinup. Manja’s ambition is to carry her student days to a successful climax and enter a ballet company which will be delighted to have her.
Until that day comes along Manja mixes fun with her work.
Well, who can resist a frilly frolic in the sunny outdoors when the spring is here?
Here are four different dollies. You can make up your own minds as to which one you want to dream about.
For a frilly start, this is MOLLY McGREGOR of Edinburgh, a quite delicious example of a bonny Scot.
Next is housewife ANN CUNNINGHAM, caught behind the telly.
Next to her is CLEO SIMMONS, glamour girl of Essex.
Lastly SALLY SMITH, university student who is studying biology, history and music.
In fact, we don't know how to make a better finish than with DAWN GRAYSON. Dawn is still in the United States, still slaying the cowboys and the oilmen, but she looks as English as ever.
There was the floor to dean up after Uncle Perce had been. He's a chain- smoker and never uses an ash tray. He'd called on KIM WEST to talk to her about bringing him back a cane rocking chair when she went to Madeira, and he flung his cigarette ash all over the place.
So, Kim had to get down to some floor-sweeping.
Not having yet reached an age or a state where domesticity is utter bliss, Kim didn't exactly rush at it. But she looked ever so pretty when she was operative, don't you think?
A girl who likes travel is ANNA REINGOLD. She's been all over the place. If that sounds untidy it's not Anna's fault, it's ours.
A Continental herself, she's wandered around most of the European countries and seen the sights in most of the capitals. Now she's in England, and not just to have a look at London but at the countryside as well.
She likes to lose herself in villages and hamlets. Farmers' sons like it too, it gives them an opportunity to be helpful and follow up with an invitation to show Anna round the dairy. One young spark asked her if she'd like to help with the milking as the electrical contraption had broken down. Anna was willing but a mere beginner. The cow got huffy and went off in a sulk. But it was great fun for Anna.
If housewives ever did slop around looking like last night's night out and yesterday's throwaway, they don't look anything but ravishing today.
Like music, housewives have charm.
And they're better than all those free-thinking birds because they can look just as dishy while being a lot more socially responsible. Birds cook baked beans. Housewives cook cordon bleu.
Well, lovely apple pie at least.
Very much a picture of today is housewife JOYCE MATLOCK, who has longer legs than most dollies and a highly desirable aptitude for serving up lovely cooking. Not for all and sundry, however. Just her hubby.
When you’ve got through to the operator after spending a mad thirty minutes trying to get a straightforward number, have you ever wondered what she’s like? You hear her voice, golden and velvet and full of soothing solicitude, and you think my word, how can I blow my top when melody is ringing my eardrums?
“Is that the operator?”
“Yes. Can I help you?”
“I was on fire. I’m better now. When’s your night off?”
An absolutely delicious telephone operator is SUSANNE CHURCHILL of Brighton, Sussex. It’s not only a pleasure to listen to her telling you to hold the line, it’s an education.
Susanne likes fast cars and dress-designing. She designs and makes most of her own clothes, in fact. In addition, she’s a creamy, golden blonde and a joy to the ear of any man who works in an iron foundry or goes to football matches.
It’s not the first time we’ve featured gay JANE McKAY, who always turns up at regular intervals with a smile. Jane has something to smile about. She’s young, she’s pretty, she’s popular with the boys, and she’s earning lots of money as a shorthand-typist.
Always glamorous, Jane is proud of her trim figure, which looks good whether she’s wearing a sweater or a bolero. Jane works in the City of London and does the occasional pin-up modelling for us partly for the fun of it and partly for the pin money. The latter helps towards her wardrobe and her annual vacation.
Jane has lots of friends, gets lots of laughs out of life, and is really as lively as a porpoise. Maybe a porpoise can do more tricks in the water, but no porpoise looks as good!
Obviously, there's a touch of the mysterious east about CAROLE SEFTON, who hails from Bradford, where there's a lot of wool about.
That's nice about the wool. One needs it in the winter up there. One needs it all over in any winter. As for that lovely almond-eyed look of Carole's, the fact is her mother is Chinese and her father is English. Carole is eighteen right now and works for a mail order firm.
She's very athletic, likes a gymnasium and adores swimming. She's a flasher in the water which means she can go. She also has lovely teeth, very useful to bite any audacious wolves with. They have them in Bradford too, you know.
Carole represents the best of both parents which shows what can develop from a good mix.
Blonde dolly from Dorset is SAMANTHA BOND, with curvy vitalistics that add up to 37-24-37. Those inches constitute a shape that's dreamy in a bikini.
Samantha's also dreamy about travelling.
Faraway places are her idea of excitement and culture. Some girls only go overseas to soak up the sun and wiggle provocatively in the pools.
Samantha likes to see things and do things. New York, Sydney, Rome, Hawaii, Istanbul and Athens, she's thinking of them all and looking forward to seeing them all.
Now that summer is really here it’s warm enough for SUSAN DOUGLAS to model her summer weight lingerie, which makes her the coolest girl we know. This, of course, is recommended to be just the right weight to wear under a Courreges-style outfit. Slick, mod and unobtrusive. Lovely, in fact
A dolly is a bird both young and endearing.
Like ELAINE MASTERS.
Age, eighteen. Measurements, 36-23-35. Elevation, five feet five. Sum total, enchantment.
Interests, good books, pop music, Spain, France and London. Work, salesgirl. Ambitions, oh just a sports car and a horse. Spare time hobby, being a pin-up girl.
Effect, she makes this mixed-up world look as if it's got a future, after all.
Nothing pleases RACHAEL DAWSON more than outdoor activities, and we don't mean being chased over Bournemouth beach by adventurous young male visitors who want her autograph.
Rachael is a lover of outdoor sports like tennis, swimming, riding and netball. That's why she's so vital and glowing, and while you regard physical jerks as nutcases dedicated to getting musclebound, Rachael regards them as purely health-giving exercises that keep a girl fit enough to jump a five barred gate without any help from a horse.
Rachael is twenty-two, a green-eyed blonde who works as a typist, and whose sporting activities keep her curvy but trim at 36-22-36.
