This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[ellebud]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Oh, ellebud... you didn't let me down!

[ellebud]

Uh..yes!

....and Glamour and Mademoiselle.........

[Tulip86]

Teen Vogue all the way..

[BraveMaroon]

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I miss Sassy. I'd probably still be a subscriber.

Sassy? I don't remember this at all, but I remember & read the other magazines mentioned. What was it?

[33girl]

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

[barbino]

OK- now I understand- this magazine was "After my time."
I still get In Style, though.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9826498

While it was cool to see a magazine promoting alternative fashion/music/beauty, IMO it went too far - in much the way that the feminist movement did. It went from "here's a choice if you don't feel like you can ever be that perfect girl in Seventeen" to "if you for one second ever liked anything in Seventeen you must be some kind of loser and are in no way cool enough to hang out with us." In other words, it became just as cliquish as the cliques it was originally created to shun.

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

I was in the 7th grade when that mag came out. My sister ordered it in a school magazine drive. She got one issue, and my dad was so offended that he promptly canceled her subscription.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Sassy was the hipper-than-thou magazine that had a lovely article called something like "who the hell would join a sorority?"

Not to mention the editor turned into a total fame whore.

Ha! That's funny - I don't even remember the sorority article - clearly, it didn't impact me!

What I do remember is an article about what it feels like to be "turned on", and that it caused a huge stink with some parents, but my mother (a nurse and a hippie) thought it was honest and well-written and that's what prompted her to get me a subscription.

And yes, Jane Pratt definitely let it go to her head.

That said, Sassy had some great fiction, it was irreverent, and was a little less fashion focused than Seventeen.

I read it for about three years...

[AlisonMK]

Didn't Sassy have a glossier cover than the other teen magazines or is my memory not serving me well?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AlisonMK

Didn't Sassy have a glossier cover than the other teen magazines or is my memory not serving me well?

Yes the cover stock was shinier than other magazines.

[honeychile]

Another Seventeen junkie here! Does anyone remember a magazine that wasn't quite as flashy as Seventeen, I think its name was Teen? It was a sponsor of the Miss TeenAge America contest. I loved that one, too.

When I was going through rush (and that was 6 weeks long, with chat dates, mixers, and a LOT of non-NPC approved parties), I can remember a sister showing me some Adelpheans and one had a Miss Teen America from a few years before. I remembered her from Teen, and was SO impressed!! She still shows up in the occasional Adelphean for a charity.

[LionTamer]

So, not rush, but 15 PSU ASAs from the early 80's were at a get-together in Ocean City, NJ last weekend, and we were looking at the 1982 composite.

A lot of the other photos showed girls wearing high-necked blouses with goofy-looking ruffles - kind of a Gunne Sax/Little House on the Prairie look.

Someone commented that she didn't realize so many of the girls were Sister Wives.

None of us could look at the composite after that without laughing.

(A little OT: I felt kind of bad for the girls who had traveled from outside the East Coast, where any mention of heading to the Jersey Shore for the weekend conjured in the minds of their coworkers and friends images of fist-pumping and bar fights for those unfamiliar with the SOUTH Jersey shore, which is actually not quite as....Jerseylicious.....)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by LionTamer

So, not rush, but 15 PSU ASAs from the early 80's were at a get-together in Ocean City, NJ last weekend, and we were looking at the 1982 composite.

A lot of the other photos showed girls wearing high-necked blouses with goofy-looking ruffles - kind of a Gunne Sax/Little House on the Prairie look.

Someone commented that she didn't realize so many of the girls were Sister Wives.

None of us could look at the composite after that without laughing.

I have some of our composites from 1980-81-82, and MANY MANY sisters are wearing the hideous ruffled Peter Pan collar blouses with string ties. Even the prettiest girls didn't look good in those. I know it was the "women in the working world" thing trickling down, but bleeeeccccch.

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I have some of our composites from 1980-81-82, and MANY MANY sisters are wearing the hideous ruffled Peter Pan collar blouses with string ties. Even the prettiest girls didn't look good in those. I know it was the "women in the working world" thing trickling down, but bleeeeccccch.

I remember having a tie collection - you just never knew when a coordinating tie could set off your outfit! And I agree, it was definitley the working woman influence.