Are there any other women here my age who used to love "Seventeen"

[Thtwudbeme]

magazine?

I am 41; and when I think back on the summer of '78...visiting my best girlfriend in New Orleans, there are a few things that stick out in my mind...

We took the streetcar down St. Charles to some small convienience store (that's probably gone now) and had to buy TWO copies of the latest "Seventeen."

"Grease." I probably don't need to add anything else to that, eh? We had the album, the magazines, the photos, and we sang the songs, and quoted it.

"Brooke Shields." "Pretty Baby." We were certain she was a slut, and her mother was insane.

Bonnie Belle everything, and Jean Nate stuff.

Does this ring bells for anyone else?

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. I don't remember 17.

But I do remember "Sassy," which was written by smart, feisty, and progressive women. When the magazine was sold, the new writers trashed the old ones and started doing articles on all of the things the previous group mocked.

Such a pity.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Yes

I loved the Frye boot ads and the fashions and the advice columns.

I am sad that Seventeen has become Cosmo.

[LostinVA]

3. And Teen Beat and Tiger Beat

I'm 41, too.

However... too many photos of Shaun Cassidy, not enough of Pamela Sue Anderson!

[SeattleGirl]

4. Ding ding ding ding ding!!

"Seventeen" was my favorite magazine in my teen years!

I remember Bonnie Bell, Jean Nate, and how about Yardley?

I haven't looked at a "Seventeen" mag in years ('cause it's been years since I've been anywhere NEAR that age!).

[Thtwudbeme]

5. I still use Yardley! Just bought Yardly Soap and lotion last week

I love that stuff...but, Jean Nate has been replaced by more earthy "Healing Garden Cucumber and Green Tea" sprays for me...and if I NEVER see another little bottle of clear, gooey, sticky bubble gum flavored lip gloss again, it will be too soon!

You know what I really miss about "Seventeen?" They NEVER portrayed the ugly side of teenage-hood, ever. Every girl, popular, ugly, cheerleader or band member, could read it and feel good about themselves.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Eeew, bubble-gum flavored lip gloss....I'm going into sugar shock

just thinking about it! :scared:

I haven't used Yardley in years, but it is good stuff!

I agree with your opinion of "Seventeen"...I was definitely a geek through most of my teen years, but I never felt that way when I read the magazine. Seems the stuff they talked about was addressed to all teen girls, whether you were the "popular" girl, or the geek like me!

[Sequoia]

7. Yea, Cybill Shepard was on the cover

in my dentist's and I was a buck tooth pre-teen getting those awful braces. Seeing her, and thinking someday.....ha! Read it, along with MAD Magazine. Bonne Bell: I can still remember the sent and Jean Nate' too. Remember also when that Lemon scented line came out, was it from JOY? And Straw Hat perfume. I miss those things.

[Thtwudbeme]

8. I am not sure it was joy, yet I remember it well....was it by the Love's

Baby Soft people?

I miss those things too....I even miss that horrible, ugly bottle of Emeraude on my grandmother's dresser!

[Sequoia]

26. Evening in Paris perfume (Mom)

Lovely shaped blue bottle.

Love's? I think that's it. Thanks. I do wish they'd bring that Lemon line back. The birds and bees would follow me. Not really, but it's a nice thought.

[Shell Beau]

9. Well, I am only 27, but I used to love it too!

I have graduated up to Cosmo and Marie Claire!! But I loved Seventeen and YM. Do you remember YM? I don't know when it first came out though!

[flamingyouth]

10. Yeah, I subscribed to it

I'm 36 and a lot of us read the stupid dating tips and stuff.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Oh, yes!

Especially the back to school issue with all the tweed and wool stuff. I'd get so stoked for going back to school! Of course I never was able to afford any of that stuff, but looking was fun.

[Thtwudbeme]

12. omg! I remember that issue!

I LOVED looking at that stuff....the preppy looking stuff from that era...

When I was in DC I saw some women on the subway who were wearing cute cotton sweaters, chinos, and loafers...it might be coming back! Wouldn't that be nice?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. You mean so the poor girls out there

of all sizes and shapes will no longer find it absolutely imperative that they wear shirts that barely cover their bra and pants that come down to their pubes in the front and their cracks in the back?

Man, I'm glad I'm not young today. I would have worn a burqua. You know, come to think of it...maybe those women know something we don't.

Just kidding...really shouldn't laugh about burquas. When I was 17 I didn't even know they existed.

[Thtwudbeme]

15. There are wayyy too many reasons I am glad to not be young today!

But, yes, the clothing is one of them!

Hell, even the girls in the sixties had choices that were so much cuter without looking like sluts-

[Thtwudbeme]

20. TGrannie, omg...check this out!

[southlandshari]

25. I remember that!!!

The "back to school" issue, always about twice the size of a regular issue!

I loved that silly rag. Now it makes me blush and I make my daughter avert her eyes if we see it at the grocery store!

:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. The really BIG Bonnie Bell lip gloss! And I wore Jean Nate' after bath

splash all the time, until Love's Baby Soft came out...and then I graduated to Gloria Vanderbilt. ;) :hi:

Seventeen and 'Teen magazine were popular here.

[Thtwudbeme]

16. Oh, I forgot the huge ones! Good lord, I BOUGHT those things!

Can you believe it! I can still smell, and feel them!

Ha! Thanks for that memory; that is hilarious!

Steph

[redqueen]

17. Oops... I thought this was about the Janis Ian song.

Nevermind...

[Thtwudbeme]

18. ROFL

please...I am trying to have PLEASANT memories here....

But...who sang that really whiny "Love Hurts" crappy song? Some guy---

[redqueen]

19. Nazareth

[nini]

21. It was "16 Magazine" in my day

haha

[Thtwudbeme]

22. Oh Puhleeese!!!

It was "17" in your day too! Cut it out, and quit making me feel old! We aren't all that far apart!

;)

[nini]

23. I'm older than dirt - didn't you know?

:D

[musette_sf]

30. hahahaha

Love the "Frid & Henesy" line and hunky David "Quentin" Selby on the bike.

Jonathan "Barnabas" Frid was old at the time, and tres gay to boot... a minor marketing miracle it was, to make a late-forty-ish gay vampire into a teen idol.

(edited to note: and this was YEARS before Tom Cruise in "Interview With The Vampire"! Gloria Stavers, what a psychic she was!)

And David Henesy was, what, 10?

thanks for the memories... from a Dark Shadows / Mark Lindsay fanatic at the time!

[nini]

32. We used to run home from school to catch Dark Shadows!

We loved that show. We'd probably laugh our butts off at it now.

Do you remember "Here Come the Brides"

I was going to marry Joshua - LOL

[musette_sf]

37. we used to run down to the Dark Shadows studio after school

and hang around to meet 'n' greet the stars.

David Selby and Roger Davis were super, super nice guys. Roger had just married this snotty Texas bitch named Jackie, who we did not like AT ALL.

Roger went on to own restaurants in Louisville KY after "Alias Smith And Jones", and Jackie, well, she went on to be Jaclyn Smith...

[hippywife]

24. I was too busy

wearing my straight-legged jeans with flannel shirts and bandanas and getting high to give a rat's ass that Seventeen even existed.

[stanwyck]

27. well, living in a small town in central Illinois

I lived for my Seventeen magazine. It spoke of a world beyond the cornfields.
I'd save my babysitting and working at the drugstore money for a trip to Chicago to buy clothes like the ones in Seventeen. (not many, of course).
And that magazine is primarily responsible for my obsession with makeup. I don't actually wear that much makeup...but I do love to buy it. Especially lipstick and lip gloss. I'm the Imelda Marcos of lipstick.
It's embarrassing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. We'll have to shop together!! I am always buying makeup kits.

I don't use much makeup and have about 7 traincases full. I am also the first in line to spend $30 and get a Clinique bag filled with seasonal firsts(!) goodies....that and cleansers..I am a freak for cleansers.

[musette_sf]

29. I confess... I bought two September BIG fashion issues

from the mid-60s on eBay some time ago.

I can still point out the outfits I wanted, the shoes I bought, and the fashion spreads I remember. I remember them all as if no time at all had passed since then.

What I do find interesting to refresh my memory on, is that womanly fragrances like Chanel No. 5 and Revlon's Intimate, were marketed as teen scents. Of course all I wore was Oh! De London, because I was SURE that Jean Shrimpton and Marianne Faithful must also have worn it too.

Then there were the issues with Olivia Hussey, who I thought was THE most gorgeous girl and would have DIED to look like.

And the fashion spread where one may note a quite young Ali McGraw.

[saged52]

35. I love looking around on eBay for old issues -

Seventeen, Glamour, & 'Teen - I am amassing a collection of Colleen Corby covers of 'Teen - may be going too far back for most of you!

[musette_sf]

36. not me, babe

I remember Colleen Corby well... I also read Co-Ed magazine where she was often featured.

[bliss_eternal]

31. I'm not your age--but I loved Seventeen, too.

:hi:

My cousin is closer to your age--I remember reading all of her old Seventeens' when spending time at her mom's house. It was a tad above my comprehension on some subjects, but I loved it anyway. Couldn't wait until I was 'old enough' to subscribe!

[Left Is Write]

33. I still remember two of my favorite issues...

January 1980, when they speculated on what life would be like in the year 2000, and August 1981, the back-to-school issue for my sophomore year of high school.

I loved that magazine. I love to look at old issues now for the clothes, the makup, and the ads.

[Chovexani]

34. I'm 24 but yeah I used to read it

When I was like 12, hehe. I don't ever remember anyone who was actually 17 reading that mag, it was all tweenie boppers. 17 year olds read Cosmo and Vogue to look older. :P

Funny enough, even though I used to read it voraciously at that age, when I hit about 14 I realized how fucking stupid those "chick rags" were and quit reading them. Haven't since, either.

[NMMNG]

38. I loved it when I was a teenager

I so looked forward to the "Back to School" mega-issues when I had a subscription for several years. I'd pour over those issues for weeks checking out the fashions, makeup and so on. I fell in love with a pair of shoes in one of the ads and bugged my mom until she took me to get them (just Sears, nothing expensive). I even kept the "Back to School" issues for several years, though I threw the others out a month or so after I read them.