Sunday, December 8, 2024

Recycled Chic

a closeup of Shelley
from a pic used on a spread
on Woman's Day magazine, 1973

Shelley appeared on many issues of what was known as the Seven Sisters group of magazines. The Seven Sisters magazines were Woman's Day, Redbook, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens. They all catered to married women with children rather than single working women. The magazines featured homemaking and crafts, food and nutrition, health and fitness, beauty and fashion advice and articles. Shelley appeared in the February 1973 issue of Woman's Day magazine, in a spread entitled "Found Money: The Second Time around May Be The Best Time." The spread was about recycling everyday objects into "fun and frivolous and, incidentally, useful" items. Shelley modeled a man's work shirt that had been turned into a gaily trimmed smock by Marilyn Dutkus; and she wore it over a red turtleneck sweater and a matching pair of red pants. And Shelley fun and frivolous in her recycled chic outfit. (For more, check out: The Second Time Around)

Shelley (with Kay Campbell) in a spread
for Woman's Day magazine, 1973