Jacqueline Blair

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Modelling The Line

The line is long, but it's mod and it's swinging or so they say. Modelling it is beautiful JACQUELINE BLAIR, shorthand-typist, a great trad jazz fan and, hold it, chaps, hockey captain during her rousing schooldays. Jackie is twenty and last year won two Scottish beauty competitions.

Spick No 128 - July 1964

Nicola Taylor and Marie Graham

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Past and Present

In the past the not-long-ago past-undies were frilly and worn with stockings and suspenders.

For the present it's brevity and tights. NICOLA TAYLOR and MARIE GRAHAM, Hampshire, find the present look extremely comfortable, but how it compares with the past look, illustrated overleaf and elsewhere, is a matter of individual opinion.

"More like ruddy sacrilege,"' said Fred.

What?

"Them tights," said Fred, horrible."

Oh, you're old-fashioned.

"'You want to watch it.' said Fred, "or you'll get ate up by lions, and I hope all them tights get ate up too."

Don't take too much notice of Fred.

Beautiful Britons No 227 - October 1974

Fiona Kendall

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Back To Stardom

It wasn't a very happy day for FIONA KENDALL when she was severely injured in a hit-and-run accident. With a fractured skull not the least of her injuries, Fiona was in hospital for many months.

However, she isn't the granddaughter of the venerated Marie Kendall for nothing. Fiona gritted her teeth, went through operation after operation, and eventually after final successful plastic surgery treatment, emerged to take her place in show business again.

Now she looks the picture of health and beauty once more and can be frequently seen in stage and T.V. parts that call for Fiona's special kind of infectious vitality.

Span No 210 - May 1971

Janet Cooke

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Hi, Cheeky

Looking just a little bit cheeky is Hampshire girl JANET COOKE. Janet works in Bournemouth but is hoping to become a photographic model. She has a very trim and fashionable figure measuring 35-22-34, chestnut-gold hair and blue eyes.

Photographers, please note.

Spick and Span Extra No 55 - Summer 1975

Pamela Gastall

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Old Fashioned? Good Grief

It's hard to believe it, but all those lovely nylons girls used to wear with such grace and elegance are positively old-fashioned now.

Fact.

They don't wear anything except these stretch tights these days. It's the mini skirts what done it, like. And getting onto buses. The girls just weren't going to flash their stocking-tops and suspenders for the benefit of all those four-eyed bus conductors.

So, what happened?

They took to stretch tights and the four-eyed bus conductors were left all mortified and chagrinated.

What's chagrinated?

It means Fred likes a bit of the old stocking-tops and suspenders and he doesn't half swear if he is done out of it.

But when you look at PAMELA GASTALL, an aspiring Brighton model of sweet seventeen, and realise that in those exquisite nylons she's supposed to be old fashioned, you can hardly believe it, can you? What a perishing diabolical do-ray-me diddle wallop.

What's that mean?

Dunno.

Span No 182 - October 1969

Sally McGregor

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Siamese Look

Ornamental cat charm is personified in this elongated statue of a Siamese puss.

The lady in the picture is SALLY McGREGOR.

She's a sweet puss herself. It's probably true that most women are purringly feline, and Sally says no one would purr more than she would if she could slip into a mink coat.

What about scratching?

"Certainly," said Sally, "I'll do your back if you'll do mine." Purr, purr.

Beautiful Britons No 227 - October 1974

Karin Gerder

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Staying Awhile

From Stockholm came KARIN GERDER on a trip to London, and as she was so obviously one of those Swedish goddesses who can put you off the humdrum for life, even the cab drivers raised their caps to her.

London cab drivers are helpful guys, they also know a Swedish goddess when they see one, and if it hadn't been for the fact that they nearly all have a wife and kids to keep they would have willingly driven her around the metropolis for free,

Karin moved into an apartment in Hampstead and decided to stay awhile. Already she's found all the work she wants as a model and is spending what spare time she can in painting London scenes.

She's not just a haughty goddess, she's got talents, you know.

How exhilarating.

Beautiful Britons No 207 - February 1973

Nancy Bernard, Sylvia Lamb and Vincene Cradduck

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All Over The Place

This is nothing to do with being untidy. It's just to say we find lovely girls all over the place.

Here, for instance, is an American salesgirl. She's NANCY BERNARD and she works in a sumptuous store in Philadelphia. She has very shapely American legs and uses them to run around her tennis court at weekends.

French actress VINCENE CRADDUCK, currently rehearsing for a revival of a French classic.

And silhouetted rather divinely on her window seat is SYLVIA LAMB of Florida. Sylvia is a dental receptionist. Florida isn't just for big millionaires and rich widows. It's for ordinary people too, including dental receptionists, but they don't all look as lovely as Sylvia.

Beautiful Britons No 227 - October 1974