JIMMY PAGE Jeremy Thorpe MARK MURPHY Paris PETTICOAT fashion magazine

Rare sixties issue of the British fashion magazine Petticoat, from May 1967.

A young Jimmy Page, then in The Yardbirds, visits the Petticoat offices and the staff are thinking of starting a fan club... quarter page feature.

Jeremy Thorpe the Liberal MP is photographed in the House of Commons with two Petticoat staff members.  Half page feature.

American jazz singer Mark Murphy in a two page interview, inc 5 photos.

Fashion editorial photographed in the Canary Islands with models wearing towelling, print and brights beachwear and day dressing. 

Petticoat travels to Paris and photographs all the cool boutiques and hot spots for a two page feature.

High Street versus designer fashion - Paris designs by St Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Lanvin etc are copied in photographic poses and all, for Petticoat we assume, by Mary Quant, Dollyrockers and Simon Ellis etc.  Half page feature.

Barbra Streisand and Millicent Martin photos are used to illustrate a plastic surgery / beauty feature, 2 pages.

Excellent condition.

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