June Russell
/June Russell - Vintage Stockings Archive
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Those stretch tights are all very utilitarian when considered in conjunction with the mini, but what do they really do for a dolly?
What a flash of lightning it is to find there are still some dollies who like the old stocking-tops. Can't whack tops, you know. Do wonders for a lovely pair of legs.
Do marvels for the lovely legs of blonde INGRID NORSMAN and brunette LOWRA BRUNI. Ingrid is a Sussex girl, Lowra is an Italian girl living in Sussex.
They're both delicious.
They look scintillating in tops.
Beautiful Britons No 205 - December 1972
More from Maureen relaxing on the sofa, giving us all something to think about as she exposes her black-stockinged legs. Very nice indeed.
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Oh, before we go, we also found that Surrey girl BRIDGET COLE of Gatwick just didn't know where her mini got to when she alighted from her car.
Helen Baxter is all dressed up, sitting in a chair and giving us a nice picture of her stockings and suspenders. Thanks again to Tocofan for this contribution.
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Playing 'first-pass-the post-bags-a-lollipop' are vivacious brunette MARY GRAHAM and eye-catching blonde JANETTE GOODMAN. Anyway, it's a good substitute for press-ups and not so killing, even if it is hard on the knees of the gee-gee. And some gee-gee.
How'd you turn round in a corner? Janette's the worried one at this stage, but it's Mary who ought to have been.
Well, it was Mary, you see, who had farther to fall. This represents the final sequence of 'hands-knees-and-boompsa-daisy'. but no two girls could go 'boomps' with more photogenic emphasis than Janette and Mary, unless they weighed twice as much. In which case the emphasis would be physical-ouch!
Span No 103 - March 1963
Two more great pictures of Michelle from the Private Collection of negatives. She is seen sitting on a sheepskin rug-covered stool, which allows us a great view of her stocking-clad and very shapely legs. Michelle looks like a lot of fun and has a delightful smile.
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There were three lovely girls, a lot of damp clouds and only one umbrella. The weather not being heavenly, the girl with the quickest snatch grabbed the brolly. That was DEBORA STEWART, and though the brolly may look a bit mundane you can't say Debbie does. Debbie is the girl we'd most like to explore the Amazon with, as it rains a lot there and Debbie can paddle a canoe and make it all look a gorgeous giggle.
Debbie’s two friends are LIZ MCEWEN and SUSAN FAIRFAX. While Debbie kept the brolly all to herself, Liz and Susan just had to wait for the rain to stop. Girls waiting for the rain to stop can look demurely anxious, especially if they've just emerged from the hairdressers, but Liz and Susan manage to look as if it isn't raining at all. And actually, it isn't.
It's all a lot of hocus-pocus about the weather just to give us a chance to intersperse some flowery chat about the girls. Flowery chat comes easily when it's all about mini-skirted charmers like these.
Span No 156 - August 1967
More from Maureen and the private collection. Maureen looking rather gorgeous as she poses for us on the floor, teasing us with her stocking tops and glimpses of her knickers.
This is not to say JACKIE TAYLOR is diminutive and can't see over shop counters, it simply means she's infatuated with the mini look, and so she should be with knees as photogenic as that.
To people who view the mini-line and say "My word, l've not seen anything as original as that since I fell out of a balloon and landed in the middle of a Saudi Arabian harem," we can only comment that nothing is really new. Topless dresses, for instance, were worn for centuries by the Cretan girls as long ago as 2000 B.C. Miniskirts were worn by the warrior maids of Britain at the time of Julius Caesar, and then there were all those Roman dancing girls who specialised in peekaboo outfits that fairly took the eyebrows off the Roman nobility.
One thing you can say for certain about Jackie and the rest of her sex. They're never dull. They're always conjuring up ways and means to make you ride your bike into a hedge of wild roses and even then, you're almost oblivious of the pain.
Mini girls like Jackie make a man feel life is not wholly disenchanting.
Beautiful Britons No 135 - February 1967
Fabulous picture of Angela Bond fiddling with her stockings while perched on the edge of a stool, and that hairstyle is just amazing. I love it and miss it all. Thanks to Tocofan for contributing this picture for all of us to enjoy.
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