Peggy Palmer

 And now is time for some more groovy pics of Catalog Queen Peggy Palmer!!!!

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!!

Spring is here!!

And what better way to celebrate than with polka dots!!

Dazzling!! I mean the polka dots are dazzling.  And you gotta love the hat that Kathy is sporting!  Spring is definitely here!!

Random Weirdness: Sporting Knits of the 70s!!

We haven't had a Random Weirdness post in a while, so why not break that trend with a really random pic from a DIY sweater mag....

So why are all the adults staring at the poor kid????

     "Ahh Croquet, how cute!!"

     "Is that even a sport kid???"

     "And why are you the only one without white shoes??"

     "What are you doing playing croquet on a tennis court anyway???"
           "Well why are you playing golf on a tennis court?
              And why do each of you only have 3 clubs???"

Like I said, so many questions, but one thing can't be denied: the 70s had the grooviest sweaters!!

Sleepwear Christmas!!

JCPenneys 1973 Christmas sleepwear!  Enjoy!!

Shelley Hack and Kay in Young Look sleepwear.  Just in time for Christmas!!

The genesis of Pajamagram?!?  Matching family sleepwear featuring Kay and Peggy Palmer!  

Random Weirdness: Greenland Style!

I've had a number of readers over the years ask me "How do you find such obscure catalogs?"  Well, at the risk of bragging a little bit, I enjoy the challenge!  I get a hint which leads to a clue which leads to a focused search, which leads to, well, more groovy pics for the blog!  So I thought that it's be fun to go through how this played out recently.

As with many of these searches, it started with a reader.(1) I exchanged several emails with him, and he offered to send me a head sheet of Kathy (sorry, saving that for another post!)  Well that head sheet had some info about Kathy's then recent modeling appearances.  So I tracked down several of these until one magazine produced.....

Bingo!  A completely new pic of Kathy that I had never seen before!

But that's not all!

Nothing says 70s grooviness like Acetate Seersucker!

But that raises the question "What the heck is this Greenland Studios thing and are there any more of them out there?"  The answer to that is "You Betcha!"

Hold onto your retro hats dear readers!  Apparently Greenland Studios was one of those outfits that pushed all kinds of kitschy, fun crap like here. The mind reels at the shear 70s overload present in one page!

From ship decanters to wooden utensil sets to tiny bonsai trees to dried flowers in a lucite egg, Greenland Studios had everything a modern American family in the 70s needed!   And I just know that if I had seen the "20 prehistoric cavemen and monsters" set, I would've bugged my mom until she bought it!

You ain't livin' until you have the compete collection shown here!

I'm about to have a 70s heart attack here: a gondola lamplight, snow tomatoes, your own cheese making kit, slippers for "milady", and hand blown glass swan vases, just to name a few.  However, the standout here is the "ancient Chinese fortune telling painting on an ashtray."  Huh???

Okay, okay, we better same some of this nonsense for the future.  What about fashions??

Greenland had those too and for the cost conscious buyers!

For that At Home Glamour, every women in the 70s needed a Paisley Torso Wrap from Greenland!

 And we'll end this wild ride though the Greenland Studios insanity where we began - with some pics of Kathy. Lovely!!

 

So the girl is free?!?  Wow, what a catalog,!!  That certainly beats the prehistoric cavemen and monsters set!  

footnotes:

(1)  I get a lot of my leads from my readers.  I's like to thank all of you for these contacts and info!

K Club Special - Part 30 - Peggy Palmer

Continuing our review of some many of the popular catalog models of the 70s, this time we'll highlight Peggy Palmer.

Who was that you ask?

Oh yeah, THAT model.  You know, one of the ones that frequented the "dedicates" section of the Big Book catalogs (not that I remember anything about!?!?)

Yes, normally this is strictly a G rated blog.  However, this week it may have to stray into the PG area a bit.

You may notice that the pics in this post have been cropped - not that there is anything really that revealing by today's standards,  Still I try not to offend anyone just in case.

Peggy also appeared in other sections of the Big Books.

Whew!! Those "Penn-Press polyesters" are a  lot less risky!

Still more typical pics from JCP.

Another tic tac toe game, but this time it looks like somebody won!

Peggy didn't often appear with the other "K Clubbers", but here is is with Colleen and Dottie.

And there are very few pics of her with Kathy.  In fact this one from a Lana Lobbel catalog is the only one that I've found.

Another pic form the same Lana Lobbel catalog - nice giant collars.

 More Peggy, this time from Bellas Hess! Very nice, very cute!

Hugger Knits just in time for Autumn.

Peggy's career started in the 60s and certainly included a lot more than just catalog modeling...

 The cover of Cosmo!!

And another Cosmo cover - very 60s hairstyle!!

Still for many of us Peggy will be remembered for her appearances in those Big Book catalogs...

Very, very nice!!