Timeless A-Peel wrote:Dear Bravo magazine: I love you!

Braveo always had the best pictures, pretty much the same when it came to Abba. If only this one was just a tiny bit bigger, but I'm sure you can make a lovely avatar out of it.

Mara wrote:

Timeless A-Peel wrote:Dear Bravo magazine: I love you!

Braveo always had the best pictures, pretty much the same when it came to Abba. If only this one was just a tiny bit bigger, but I'm sure you can make a lovely avatar out of it.

Yeah, there was a picture of ABBA in there as well. And some of David and Shaun Cassidy. All the pictures with this article are clearly pre-filming--Joanna doesn't have a Purdey-bob in one of them, and most are modelling shots. It's all in German and I don't understand a word, but I don't care! It's plenty big for an avatar, I think--you can only do so many pixels, and I had trouble cropping it down to fit. I just need sig ideas for it now. Wish I wasn't so busy.

Is there text about TNA in German? If you scan it/write it down for us, me and Maartje might be able to make sense of it if you like?

Yes, we could give it a go, I suppose. Although I must admit that I - just like Joanna - have never managed to get an A-level in German.

Timeless A-Peel wrote:Yeah, there was a picture of ABBA in there as well. And some of David and Shaun Cassidy.

Can you see what I'd have loved to be a teenager in the seventies? TNA, Abba, John Travolta... Fabulous!

Philippa wrote:Is there text about TNA in German? If you scan it/write it down for us, me and Maartje might be able to make sense of it if you like?

Yes, there's an article along with more pictures. I'm going to post all of it, and another one of Gareth (in English, though). I'd love a translation, if you can manage it. Unlike French, I don't know it at all. Thank you!

Mara wrote:Yes, we could give it a go, I suppose. Although I must admit that I - just like Joanna - have never managed to get an A-level in German.

Timeless A-Peel wrote:Yeah, there was a picture of ABBA in there as well. And some of David and Shaun Cassidy.

Can you see what I'd have loved to be a teenager in the seventies? TNA, Abba, John Travolta... Fabulous!

I'd have loved to be a teen in the seventies, too--good pants, and better bands. It's funny, because the seventies was my mom's decade, and I showed her the mag, and she was going "Oh, Maxine Nightingale! I loved her!" She also loves David Cassidy, and she got me onto him, too. So we both got a kick out of it.

I love the 70s too, it's a fabulous era

Philippa wrote:I love the 70s too, it's a fabulous era

I like seventies music better than sixties music, and while I don't think women's clothes were as good, I think the men's clothes were better. I know that there were some pretty hideous outfits out there, but when they were good, they were really good. I love Gambit's clothes, the way they're cut--nipped in at the waist, longer sleeves and pants. Sam and Danny Wilde from The Persuaders were well-dressed, too. All the sixties suits look like they were shrunk in the wash.

I found this picture on Ebay:



Gorgeous, isn't it?

Mara wrote:I found this picture on Ebay:



Gorgeous, isn't it?

Ah, yes, I've seen that one on ebay, too. It's lovely. I think it was taken at her home--she's wearing her own clothes, and you can tell the Purdey bob hasn't been styled.

I'm loving the leopard cloath, but please drop the clothes Joanna! It's something Purdey could wear, but I wouldn't really say it's typical Jo... The colouring's a bit strange, but the photograph is still really nice.

Mara wrote:I'm loving the leopard cloath, but please drop the clothes Joanna! It's something Purdey could wear, but I wouldn't really say it's typical Jo... The colouring's a bit strange, but the photograph is still really nice.

Yeah, I was just thinking it looks more Purdey than Joanna myself. I don't really like the colouring, either, and it does something weird with your eyes--I can't tell whether it's meant to be transparent or not.

OH.MY.GOD.
I think I may need to lie down
That is beyond gorgeous

Philippa wrote:OH.MY.GOD.
I think I may need to lie down
That is beyond gorgeous

She doesn't look very made-up there, does she? I think it makes her look younger in her Purdey years.

Yes I agree. She does look younger there than she does as Purdey.

Philippa wrote:Yes I agree. She does look younger there than she does as Purdey.

And I always think she looks younger when she plays Purdey as it is. Am I the only one who doesn't think Purdey's the same age as Joanna was when she played her (i.e., not 30)? I always think she's 28 for some reason.

The photo is typical of the type of glamour pics of the 1970's. It's almost cepia mixed with colour, if you see what I mean.

If you look at TV ads (I'm thinking of the chocolate Flake adverts mostly) or ... dare I say ... erotic films of the 70's you'll see that type of film quality very often.

There's an album of Dusty Springfield from 1978 which has the same colour-subdued, whispy photography.

Avengerdan wrote:The photo is typical of the type of glamour pics of the 1970's. It's almost cepia mixed with colour, if you see what I mean.

If you look at TV ads (I'm thinking of the chocolate Flake adverts mostly) or ... dare I say ... erotic films of the 70's you'll see that type of film quality very often.

There's an album of Dusty Springfield from 1978 which has the same colour-subdued, whispy photography.

Didn't they also start with the soft-focus filming in the seventies? There are a couple of episodes of TNA where you can tell they've made an effort to make everything look softer (Dirtier by the Dozen comes to mind).

I kind of like the sepia/colour mix, actually. I wouldn't want every picture taken that way or anything, but there's something lovely about it.

Avengerdan wrote:The photo is typical of the type of glamour pics of the 1970's. It's almost cepia mixed with colour, if you see what I mean.

You're right there! The programme I use to edit photos with has this function, but I hardly ever use it. You basically add more yellow to the picture and soften the lines a bit, but I think the effect looks a bit strange.

But hey, I wish every photograph had bright colors and sharp quality so I can do nice tricks with it in PhotoShop.

Timeless A-Peel wrote:

Mara wrote:I found this picture on Ebay:



Gorgeous, isn't it?

Ah, yes, I've seen that one on ebay, too. It's lovely. I think it was taken at her home--she's wearing her own clothes, and you can tell the Purdey bob hasn't been styled.

That is a beautiful picture.

Timeless A-Peel wrote:Didn't they also start with the soft-focus filming in the seventies? There are a couple of episodes of TNA where you can tell they've made an effort to make everything look softer (Dirtier by the Dozen comes to mind).

I kind of like the sepia/colour mix, actually. I wouldn't want every picture taken that way or anything, but there's something lovely about it.

Yeah, the late 70's became the anti-60's in a way. In the 60's everything was vibrant, lots of colour Pop Art and in your face. Around the time of The New Avengers it was more soft-focus, high contrast, pastels.

Laura Ashley instead of Mary Quant!

Women's fashions were more flowing and layered (Mrs DF tells me ... )

Avengerdan wrote:

Timeless A-Peel wrote:Didn't they also start with the soft-focus filming in the seventies? There are a couple of episodes of TNA where you can tell they've made an effort to make everything look softer (Dirtier by the Dozen comes to mind).

I kind of like the sepia/colour mix, actually. I wouldn't want every picture taken that way or anything, but there's something lovely about it.

Yeah, the late 70's became the anti-60's in a way. In the 60's everything was vibrant, lots of colour Pop Art and in your face. Around the time of The New Avengers it was more soft-focus, high contrast, pastels.

Laura Ashley instead of Mary Quant!

Women's fashions were more flowing and layered (Mrs DF tells me ... )

I like both takes. I tend to like my colours brighter, but the way they were doing soft in the seventies works for me. Nothing like variety! I'd noticed the fashion all on my own. Once you've made everything as tiny as possible, the only way you have to go is to make everything with more--longer skirts, longer pants, long jackets, thicker cuffs and ties. I find that while I prefer sixties clothes for women, I liked the seventies clothes better for the men. Done right they were just gorgeous, and didn't look as though they'd been thrown in the wash and shrunk.

Talking about fashion then, are we? I don't like the sixties clothes that much: I always picture rather dirty looking hippies with baggy clothes somehow, haha. Seventies clothes are good though, even for the women: there's just something über trendy about it. Don't get me started on eighties clothes: it's fun, but it's not my style.

I do like most of Purdey's clothes, although I'm willing to agree with Timeless that men look better in seventies fashion.

Mara wrote:Talking about fashion then, are we? I don't like the sixties clothes that much: I always picture rather dirty looking hippies with baggy clothes somehow, haha. Seventies clothes are good though, even for the women: there's just something über trendy about it. Don't get me started on eighties clothes: it's fun, but it's not my style.

I do like most of Purdey's clothes, although I'm willing to agree with Timeless that men look better in seventies fashion.

Like all fashion, there were good and bad examples. Sixties women's clothes were generally good when done right--I'm talking Emma Peel minidresses/skirts, op-art stuff, ankle boots, nice coats, lots of colour. Again, I don't like the fit of the men's clothes--everything looks just too small to me, not stylish. Steed's clothes are about the best sixties men's clothes there were, but Steed was never following the trends, so his stuff always actually fit him, even though the trousers were on the short side. I like seventies men's clothes better because they actually gave the men some shape--the coats nip in at the waist and cut nicely in the shoulders, and the pants flatter the hips. The thing about seventies fashion, though, was that as a man you had to have a specific body type to get away with it, and if you didn't, they were pretty unforgiving. Gareth had pretty much the ideal body for it--tall, slim, skinny hips, a waist. Patrick's too husky for it, but they never put him in really trendy seventies stuff, for which I'm eternally grateful. You can see it paralleled all over the place--John Simm can wear the clothes, whereas Philip Glenister dresses (badly) not as seventies. Tony Curtis in The Persuaders! is another favourie of mine. When it's not done garishly, and the guy has the right body type for it, I think seventies clothes can't be beat. My main problem with the women's seventies stuff is the fabrics--I really hate florals, I'm afraid, and most of Purdey's stuff falls into that category. I'm afraid I still regard her as one of the worst-dressed Avengers characters. I like simple, tailored clothes, which goes more toward Emma and Cathy. I don't mind the general cut of Purdey's dresses--I just wish they'd put her in better fabrics, and maybe fewer frills. She has some good examples, just more misses than her predecessors had. Her red dress with the tights, the black one from Cat Amongst Pigeons, her pink tweedy ensemble, and some of her suits--those are my favourites.

As for the eighties, I'm sorry--everyone picks on the seventies, but do you know who was well-dressed in that era? Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele. That's it. I haven't come across one other eighties character who looks good. All the men's suit s are essentially large boxes with no shape at all. And the women's--ugh. Cybill Shepherd didn't have one good outfit in the whole of Moonlighting, Stefanie Powers missed the boat for the most part in Hart to Hart, and while not mind-blowingly hideous, Alex Drake's wardrobe leaves me flat. Bad hair, bad make-up. I've seen a lot oeightie TV--none of it was good. None. How ca n people pick on the seventies when there was a whole era only twenty years ago when women thought huge baggy polyester sack dresses were a good idea? At least Purdey knew about tailoring.

Avengerdan wrote:

Oh, Dandy, you can't just give me a headline about that and not throw in an accompanying article.