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With my thoughts firmly on a New Year fitness regime (one that I'm sticking to this time!), I realised what a mind-blowing choice of hi-tech fitness clothing (and equipment) we have available in 2010. In addition, the markets are always saturated this time of year with the obligatory 'celebrity' fitness DVDs - tres boring!
So lets saunter on back some 55 years to see how gals liked to keep fit. How cute do they look? This is a fun fitness article I came across recently in the British magazine 'Illustrated'. Entitled 'STRETCH your way to winter health' and dated November 1955. It shows a bevy of lovely ladies all in various exercise poses.
There's not a spot of Lycra between them (just a fabulous Vinyl floor)! Check out the wonderful 50's knitwear and notice they're all wearing bright red lipstick too! A girl wouldn't go out without it you know!
Note: Photographed at the Y.W.C.A., London by Roland Skerrit. Shorts by Londonus, knitwear by Spectator, Sports and Finigans.
The funniest and most contradictory thing about this magazines 'angle on fitness' is that on the previous page there's an article entitled 'Can alcohol warm you up? It's basically a questions and answer guide written by the 'Illustrated Doctor' and the piece includes the following:
Q. Is alcohol a food?
A. Yes, but it's expensive. Suppose you need three thousand calories a day. You can get the lot in the form of gin and your "food bill" would run at about £4 a day.
An ounce of whisky gives you about the same amount of fuel and energy that you would get from a quarter of a pint of milk. So it's crazy to regard spirits of any kind as a food. Beer and stout have food value - in the non-alcoholic substances they contain. A pint of either contains calorie value equal to two eggs.
Q. Is it good for my health?
A. No and yes. No, if you think it has any value as a food or a stimulant or a cold cure; yes, if you take it in moderation. Alcohol in small quantities does allay anxiety and reduce tension. So after a drink before a meal you have a better appetite. After a drink last thing at night, you will get to sleep more easily. Therefore, as a drinking policy for winter health, watch these points:
DON'T HAVE A DRINK
IF you are driving.
IF you have a gastric or duodenal ulcer.
IF your doctor has forbidden alcohol for any reason.
HAVE A DRINK
IF you like it.
IF you feel it does you good.
IF you are in the right place with the right people and clear in the head about the amount you can take.
GOOD GRIEF - my personal option is 'HAVE A DRINK - IF you like it!!!!
So lets saunter on back some 55 years to see how gals liked to keep fit. How cute do they look? This is a fun fitness article I came across recently in the British magazine 'Illustrated'. Entitled 'STRETCH your way to winter health' and dated November 1955. It shows a bevy of lovely ladies all in various exercise poses.
There's not a spot of Lycra between them (just a fabulous Vinyl floor)! Check out the wonderful 50's knitwear and notice they're all wearing bright red lipstick too! A girl wouldn't go out without it you know!
Note: Photographed at the Y.W.C.A., London by Roland Skerrit. Shorts by Londonus, knitwear by Spectator, Sports and Finigans.
The funniest and most contradictory thing about this magazines 'angle on fitness' is that on the previous page there's an article entitled 'Can alcohol warm you up? It's basically a questions and answer guide written by the 'Illustrated Doctor' and the piece includes the following:
Q. Is alcohol a food?
A. Yes, but it's expensive. Suppose you need three thousand calories a day. You can get the lot in the form of gin and your "food bill" would run at about £4 a day.
An ounce of whisky gives you about the same amount of fuel and energy that you would get from a quarter of a pint of milk. So it's crazy to regard spirits of any kind as a food. Beer and stout have food value - in the non-alcoholic substances they contain. A pint of either contains calorie value equal to two eggs.
Q. Is it good for my health?
A. No and yes. No, if you think it has any value as a food or a stimulant or a cold cure; yes, if you take it in moderation. Alcohol in small quantities does allay anxiety and reduce tension. So after a drink before a meal you have a better appetite. After a drink last thing at night, you will get to sleep more easily. Therefore, as a drinking policy for winter health, watch these points:
DON'T HAVE A DRINK
IF you are driving.
IF you have a gastric or duodenal ulcer.
IF your doctor has forbidden alcohol for any reason.
HAVE A DRINK
IF you like it.
IF you feel it does you good.
IF you are in the right place with the right people and clear in the head about the amount you can take.
GOOD GRIEF - my personal option is 'HAVE A DRINK - IF you like it!!!!
