Sizzling Sleepwear from Sears

From Sizzling by the Shore last week, to Sizzling in Sleepwear this week, this blog has been, well, SIZXLING this month!!!

Some early pics of Kathy along with Peggy Palmer and Wendy Hill.  I'd say that's sizzling for sure!!

Simpsons Sears 1976

 Just a really nice pic of Kathy and Karen from the 1976 Simpsons Sears big book catalog...........

Simpsons Sears!!

 Some groovy pics form the 1975 Simpsons Sears Fall catalog....

K Club Special: Kathy!!!

 Yep, It's that time again - time for a K Club Special on Kathy herself....

And what would be more emblematic of her career??? Well how about a pic from the Junior Bazaar section of Sears along with two more of the more popular catalog models of that era: Kay and Colleen! (And yep, there's that one hand holding the other pose again!

Hands in pockets this time for Adens!

However, in teh inset pic, we are back to that pose again!!

This time Jill has the hands n pockets look, while Kathy, well, she's looking fantastic here!!

Casual dresses from Penneys along with Karen and an unknown model.

Back to Sears!!

Once more Junior Bazaar.  This time with a tunic top!!

And now for a special treat.  These pics were published by Dede Pittman on the Facebook page "Popular Fashion Models of the 60s and 70s."

Kathy, Colleen, and Karen were featured in this pictoral.

What else can I say, this is Awesome!!

Excellent tank tops.  I sure wish I could locate this "Regal" catalog.  Never heard of it before!!

The Year in Review - Part 3!!

Wow!! What a year we've had here at the Kathy Loghry Blogspot!  Another year of fantastic posts, record growth, and of course the bestest in 70s catalog pics of your favorite models!!

And as is our tradition, at the end of every year, we take a look back at a select few of the best of best from the previous year....

And, oh boy!  Did year 3 ever start off with bang with some groovy pics of Kathy and friends heading back to college!

 Oh my, the bodysuits are ALWAYS a hit!

Three of the four K Club members: Kay, Karen, and Kathy - all in blue coordinates.

Ah hem, isn't it a little early in the post for a swimsuit pic?  Nah.

 Sleepwear fun!!

Ahhh yes, the groovy His n' Her matching 70s couples fashions are always a hoot!

Another shot featuring three of our K Clubbers; Kathy, Karen, and Colleen.

I'm afraid that we may have seen the last of our Vicky Vaughn sorority sisters.  I've simply run of these pics with Kathy in them!!

All my loyal readers know that I miss the miniskirts (terribly).  But Kathy and friend look pretty darn good in these maxis from Spiegel!

The classic formal gowns from Sears - perfect for an antebellum ball.

More bodysuits.

And more bodysuits.  I had to include both pics.  How could I choose just one??

Yikes, more hot pants madness!

 Double yikes! more swimsuit hotness!!

 Kay as a Jantzen "Smile Girl" in London.....

....and Kathy in a hooded cape with a dog.  You just never know what you're going to see next in this blog!!

Except that you can always count on classic, quality catalog pics from the Big Books of the 70s, like here.  Karen and Kathy, oh my!!

This just might be the pic of the year.

However, this pic was a personal favorite of mine back in the 70s.

Kathy, Karen, and Kay could even make the Maternity Wear section of the Big Books look great.

A more reflective shot of Kathy....

The infamous Bride's magazine that I sought for so long - only to realize that this wasn't the magazine cover of Kathy that I remember from so long ago!!  The quest continues!!

Karen and Kathy modeling "peasant" dresses.  These are the best looking peasants I've ever seen!!

And, for the third year in a row, we end with a swimsuit pic.  Because why break such a great tradition?!?!?

It has been really fun running this blog for a third year, and I want to thank all my loyal readers for their support.  I really, truly look forward to year 4.  And as you probably already know, I always start each year with a K Club Special post featuring Kathy herself.  So all I've got to say about that is..........

K Club Special Part 3 - Colleen Corby

For our third in our series of "K Club Specials" (1) we feature Colleen Corby (2) (3).  Now Colleen was crazy wild in the catalog modeling, but before that she was awesomely huge in the teen magazine world.  Like all the other "K Clubbers", her career was Looonnnnnggggg!!  However, her's was particularly so.  She started professionally modelling in late 50s and continued into the early 80s!   Are you freaking kidding me?!?!?

So let's check out her career! Here are some EARLY pics.  

From 1962!  Man, does she look incredible or what!

Yeah, she was in a HECK of a lot of print ads in the 60s, like the above and below...

Of course, she was probably more well known in the 60s for her appearance in teen mags than anything else. She was, literally, a heroine to millions of young teens in the 60s.  Here are just a FEW samples....

And here...

That's one Seventeen cover, but there are about 100 more to chose from. Man was she dominant in the day!

Naturally, we know Colleen best from the Big Book catalogs, and it is a testament to her career that she modeled in the catalogs after she had made it big otherwise...

A classic Colleen pose from 1971.  She had the unique ability to hit that serious, high fashion look and yet maintain that sweet innocence that was the mark of the K Clubbers and their associates.   She was the perfect transition model from the 60s to the early 70s, but wait even with that she is not done yet!

A smiling Colleen, I'm always looking for those pics.  She normally went for the high fashion, serious poses, but she looks absolutely fabulous when she flashes that big smile!

Classic Colleen catalog posing, beautiful, such an iconically pretty gal!  Both of the above pics are from 1976, near the end of her career.

Karen and Colleen in a gorgeous pic, precious.  These gals rocked it big time back in the day (4)!

A final pic for this first post featuring Colleen.  For this I picked a personal favorite.  Here, she looks so soft and sweet and SEXY!, YEAH!  (Oh yeah, she was a hottie!). 

Colleen retired in 1978 but made a brief comback in 1980.  After that, she retired for good.  Later, she made two more public apperances.  The last one being on the Oprah show in the mid-90s.  Oprah related how Colleen was her favorite model growing up.

Colleen in 2008.

footnotes:

(1) For those of you who are new to this site, "K Club" is term that I use for four of the main catalog models in from the 70s: Kay Campbell, Karen Bruun, Colleen Corby, and, of course, Kathy Loghry.  All of their names begin with a hard K sound, hence the name.

(2) I'm sure some of you astute readers are thinking "Hmmm, he has done three K Club Special posts highlighting the careers of a different K Clubber.  I wonder who is only one left?"  And I'm also sure that these same astute readers are thinking "Hey, each of these K Club Special posts are spaced about 6-7 weeks apart, and well, what-do-you-know! in 6 weeks is the one year anniversary of this blog!"  I'm sure it is all just a coincidence.

(3) There are a TON of pics of Colleen out there on the internet especially compared to the other K Clubbers. In addition, she has a couple of fan sites out there already.  So I tried to include some original pics here for all you Colleen fans.

(4) Please look at this pic closely again, it is pure art!  One of the things I've learned in doing this blog is how incredible some of the photos were from those old catalogs.  The look of Karen and Colleen playing off of each other is absolutely brilliant! (yeah, this photo rocks it!).  I hope this blog does a little to preserve these classic pics before they are lost to time.