Honey, March 1976

Lucy and Franki are back with more dispatches from vintage women’s glossies. 

This week, Lucy is heading to Honey magazine March 1976 – but it’s less Patti Smith and Sex! on the Kings Road, more women named Sue and unequal division of household labour. 

We also meet the last of debutantes, contemplate a bath-time workout, and witness a disastrous PR campaign for British Rail. 

Meanwhile Franki is underwhelmed by “Strip Monopoly”. And the Mag Hags ponder: did the editorial staff of mid-70s Honey realise they were selling the bucolic lesbian dream? 

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CHAPTERS

04:43 – Intro to Honey March 1976

11:18 – Weekending: Five women tell us what their average 1976 weekend looks like

31:35 – *An ad break from 1976*

35:04 – Is selfishness a sin or a necessity? Therapy speak, 1976-style 

45:53 – Fashion and beauty tips from 1976

47:16 – How lovely to be beautiful? Honey tackles the immutable question: is being hot bad, actually?

51:25 – A brainwave for bathtime: a workout how-to that is absolute perfection, 10/10, no notes

52:35 – What's hot and what's not in 1976

LINKS

Read: ‘Having it all: Love, success, sex, money, even if you’re starting with nothing’ by Helen Gurley Brown

Read: Helen Gurley Brown obituary by Sali Hughes

Podcast: The Rest is History – Britain in 1974

Read: From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season 

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