Clothes catalogues

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

Brilliant! Love it!

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

I'm off to bargain alerts to buy that bullet!

Beasty

Back in the 70's the Autumn/Winter mail order catalogue was keenly awaited in many households (particularly those of us with limited access to shops). The last couple of hundred pages or so were devoted to Christmas and in particular had all the latest toys. It arrived around August time but in our family it was pretty much dropping to bits by the end of October when we as kids had continually thumbed through it trying to work out what we might be getting for XMas

endplate

Studio cards was another catalog that used to do the rounds

ringadingding

When the new Kay's or little woods catalogue hit the door mat, well my pecker rose and it was stealthily snuck to the bathroom, where I would pull the lad off myself over the faintest hint of pubic shadowing or the edge of an aereola.

The good old days of simplicity.

Now it takes 7 nuns and a dog to get me going

Mickey H

Beasty wrote: »

Well here's something especially for you - a page from the 1972 "Great Universal" UK catalogue

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/BeastyofNCD/mailordercat1.jpg?t=1292591617

That needs an NSFW NSFA* tag.


* Not Safe For Anything

branie2

Family album - my introduction to the bikini ;-)

branie2

In one Family Album edition from the 90s, the bikini models gave us a back view

Ghost Buster

weldoninhio wrote: »

Family Album

And the underwear section got me through my teenage years in 80s Ireland

topper75

The binding gum might fade over time. But the glue between the pages, never.

branie2

There is a website dedicated about old Kays catalogue, yet none about Family Album

Beasty

branie2 wrote: »

There is a website dedicated about old Kays catalogue, yet none about Family Album

The Kays heritage site is here

It was set up in 2000 by some ex-employees, focussed more on the fact it had been a business established in Worcester in the late 19th century and it, along with associated companies under the GUS umbrella had been a major employer in the area for a long time

The Family Album catalogue was essentially borne out of the GUS UK mail order business (which itself was based in Manchester) with relatively little substance in Ireland (although the Irish company did have some nice offices on O'Connell Street!)

branie2

Ghost Buster wrote: »

And the underwear section got me through my teenage years in 80s Ireland

How about the swimwear section?

fleet_admiral

Anyone remember the trips to the laundrette in Phibsboro with your nana to pay the oxendales bill just after they set up here and the real old building on O Connell street to pay the family album?

branie2

Family Album's spring/summer catalogue for 1993 really sticks my memory

branie2

Sticks in my memory, I mean

branie2

But then, I was 13 going on 14 of course.

branie2

Anyone here own old editions of catalogues?

looking_around

branie2 wrote: »

Anyone here own old editions of catalogues?

umm, why?

and why not start a new thread?

branie2

looking_around wrote: »

umm, why?

and why not start a new thread?

Just wondering

Son Of A Vidic

Ghost Buster wrote: »

And the underwear section got me through my teenage years in 80s Ireland

Ah yes, before there was a Google or the Internet, the Family Album kept us young lads happy.

branie2

Personally, I preferred the swimwear section

branie2

I bet the blonde model were very popular

branie2

This a website for a Kays archive:

www.worldofkays.org