Did you gals read Mademoiselle, Glamour, and Seventeen magazine when you were a teen?

Question

I remember when Ali McGraw, Cheryl Tiegs and Cybil Shepherd graced the covers.

Yeah the "Shrimp." She was always in Vogue along with Verushka

Answer 1

My older sister bought those mags & I read those when she was done with them. I used to sit in our walk in closet & read her True Romance/Confessions? mags, until I got caught by my mom. She didn't know my sister was buying them, so we both got into trouble.

Answer 2

Seventeen was THE teen magazine growing up for me. But
I couldn't afford them. My girlfriend gave hers to me, when she
finished. And occasionally, there would be a copy in the
doctors or dentists waiting rooms. I remember how popular
Carol Lynley was with her silky blonde hair. It was thin, but
it was gorgeous. I never wanted to have thin hair, so I never
envied her. I wonder what happened to her, by the way. I'll
have to google and find out. I do that often when I see an
actor or actress on screen in a movie, and wonder if they
are still alive. Several have gone on to be drama coaches,
and still have some connection to the business. Others who
aren't available to google, seem to have vanished into thin
air.
Glamour and Mademoiselle mags were for older women,
not the young 'ingenue'. Rona Barretts' magazines were
very popular for info on movie stars, and that was a maga-
zine I soon felt I couldn't live without. And for less money.
So I managed somehow to buy that one often.

Answer 3

Oh yes! I read all three, Glamour and Mademoiselle were my favorites. I loved the "do and don't" sections. I started reading Cosmo when I was about 17. The desk in my small bedroom would be covered with Chemistry books, my English essays, plays, and these fashion magazines. I'd read a novel by James Michener one minute, then my fashion magazines the next. My poor parents couldn't figure me out....;)

Answer 4

I didn't even know these magazines existed when I was a teen in the '50's.

We had so much compulsory reading and required reports that frivolous reading was only during summer vacation...and who wanted to read then.

Our required reading usually tended towards the classics; Steinbeck, Hemingway, Catcher in the Rye, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Mark Twain, and lots of poetry.

We were required to read 1 book every marking period, from a list provided, and prepare a book report of at leat 8 pages, single spaced. The marking period was 6 weeks long.

That didn't leave much time for crapola.

Too bad they don't have that now. Our poor kids graduate with no writing skills, poor grammer, poor English, can't spell or use proper syntax. They don't know a verb from an alley cat. They are ignorant of the most basic American history and know practically nothing about world history.

We are graduating generations of semiliterates.

No wonder high-tech companies have to hire from outside the U.S. Many of our kids simply don't have the necessary skills.

Answer 5

I remember reading Seventeen a few times, but the others were more for older women. I did get my daughter a subscription to Seventeen for a few years as a Christmas or birthday gift.

Answer 6

I read Seventeen then and Glamour for several years. Those cover girls were all lovely. I esp liked Ali McGraw and 'Love Story' was one of my favorite movies.

Answer 7

Inever got magazines when I was in high school...too poor. In high school I read Seventeen when I went to the dentist office or somewhere they had one sitting, and then I think for Christmas one year my parents got it for me, My first ordered year subscription was Cosmopolitan...as I look back it was really a dumb magazine. Lol! nite!

Answer 8

No, but I kept copies of True Confessions under my mattress. I remember the shock when I learned that the stories were not true confessions but written by writers. I can still remember some of the stories. Ah, youth!

Answer 9

They were to expensive. I would read them in laundry rooms and doctor's offices if they were there. I liked the romance magazines too. I don't think I ever actually bought one until I was in my twenties, then they were Family Circle and TV Guide.

Answer 10

My friend and I always had our nose stuck in seventeen magazine and the popular model/actress was Carol Lynley at the time.