#430 - Nylon Mood 1 1 Collectors Edition Sampson Publishing
Nylon Mood, Vol. 1, No. 1
Collectors Edition
Sampson Publishing & Distributing Co., Inc.
New York, New York
1963
digital replica
and
Top Figure
Collectors Edition
Pearlite Enterprises, c. 1961
digital replica
Nylon Mood, Vol. 1, No. 1
Women's hosiery has been a popular fetish for more than a century. Arrow Publications, Inc., produced a Stocking Parade every month during the late 1930s. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a dozen different magazines may have had the words stocking, nylon, or hose in their titles. Many leg magazines continue the tradition in the 21st century.
The premiere issue of Nylon Mood shows us the shapely gams of 15 different models, each dressed up in sheer nylons, lace top, sandalfoot, RHT and full-fashioned. (You might say this zine is all stockings, all the time.) Hosiery is held in place by garter belts and garters. Lovely ladies wear lace panties, nice mules and pumps, most with three-inch heels. Models include Sandra Bromley, Michelle Boyer, Pat Hallady, Sophia Monet, Sunni Roberts, Arva Bennet, and Charlene Renoir.
Most photography was accomplished in bedrooms and living rooms. Beds, sofas and an easy chair play major roles in most photo sets, but the settings are different for each one. As was typical of pinup magazines of those times, obvious air brush work paints gleam on much of the hosiery.
Page layouts and graphics reflect modern style, with asymmetrical arrangements, lots of white space, unexpected alignments, and combinations of large and small photographs on a page. Most photographs have no captions. Graphic presentation in the digital replica expresses the style of the original, with special attention to pictures that span two pages.
The 72-page magazine has one short story. The sequence of pages has been revised slightly to position the text of the story on succeeding pages.
Nylon Mood magazine was a good product for its time, embracing styles and customs of the early 1960s. The ebook replica and its digital adjustments allow a clear view of pretty pinups from another era.
Top Figure, Collectors Edition
Measuring a mere 4.2” by 5.4”, Top Figure, Collectors Edition, pictures one zoftig brunette in 30+ monochrome photographs. The diminutive size of this volume suggests that a man might carry it unobtrusively in an inside jacket pocket, handy for a secluded moment of examination.
The pictures were taken in a living room, and furniture affects most poses. Quite pretty, the unnamed cutie shows off her fine complexion and soft curves in stripper pasties and g-string, other frillies, a mink stole and mules. Her form looks like that of burlesque artistes of the 1960s.
The digital replica reflects adjustment of picture tonality and re-touching of a few specks and streaks.
Ebook page size duplicates the dimensions of the original. Generally skin tones and focus are good, but a few pix have an unpleasant texture.
The publisher ofTop Figure fails to provide an address or date, and claims that the pictures of the nearly naked figure are intended to inform photographers..But the product leaves no uncertainty about actual intentions. The ebook reconstructs an obscure relic of pinup history, and offers an oblique glimpse of a past-century erotic vision.
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