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Originally Posted by Historian
24/4, April 89. OK, if I'm really honest, as a piece of cover design it's not a classic, it almost looks like something Mayfair's designer threw together in a hurry after they'd had a very long boozy lunch in the pub and suddenly realised 'Oh bugger, we've not done the cover' 
It's not the artistic quality though, that matters here, it's the girl herself.
Mayfair called her Annabel Stewart, she appeared in a couple of sets for them around that time, as well as a variety of overseas mags under a variety of names, adding up to no more than a couple of pages of VEF thread. A bit of a footnote in glamour history she might be, but back in 1989, probably dropping into the newsagent on my way home from work, I saw that cover pic, and I knew I'd be wanking myself silly over her within the hour- and a quarter of a century later, I still do. |
I am really starting to get the feeling that some of here could have organised a porn-buyers club in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one where there would have been little dissent among the ranks and the decision which mags to buy and pass around.
As I have said many times, I was a true-blue
Club International man, apart from my buying
Men's World during its best spell in the mid-1990s and both
MO and
Mayfair dependent on the content. As
Mayfair tended to contain a larger quota of bustier girls (not my type, as I prefer C-cup and below) it was the mag I tended to buy least, but on many occasions I'd be drawn in by the cover.
I too was immediately captivated by Annabel. I have always loved the hitched up skirt/minidress and stocking top combo, and that pretty face could make any man melt. I can't remember much else in that issue, to be honest.
Continuing on the theme of hitched-up dresses, Vol. 23 No. 11 of
Club from 1994 is another that really sticks in the memory. As a regular buyer of the title I was going to sweep it off the top shelf anyway, but if I had seen that cover of the delectable
Sara St. James (going by the name Jacquie) pulling up her 1920s-style flapper dress to show off that tiny g-string and her delicious
derrière on the cover of any other mag I would have snaffled it immediately.
Add to that the fantastic look over the shoulder, and those bright baby blue eyes looking at you as you started to get all hard and feel all funny down there. What made the cover even more compelling was her "request", in big white letters, to "come on her bum". Well, if a sexy girl makes such a demand, it is only right that any right-thinking man accepts it without question.
The wonderfully glossy covers were perfect wank targets of course, so long as you didn't shoot too far over the edge and risk catching the ends of the pages. I must have uploaded a good half a dozen times on that cover within the space of the first month I had the mag in my possession.