Speaking of Greek magazines, here is some trivia of the magazines everybody was reading in the later part of the last century (or at least the grown ups): Ταχυδρόμος (news and lifestyle), Ρομάντζο (midlle of the road family entertainment magazine, several well known artists worked for it), Ραδιοτηλεόραση (self explanatory), Γυναίκα (ditto). Those I think where the ones you would find in almost every home or doctor's waiting room or hairdresser's, followed by Εικόνες (greek version of Life), Επίκαιρα (news), Πάνθεον (womens, but more about feminism than fashion) were also in doctor's waiting rooms, then at the hairdressers there was Φαντάζιο, Ντομινό, Βεντέτα, which were so low-brow, Ρομαντσο readers were intellectuals by comparison. One of the last three, I don't remember which one, was full of φωτορομάντζα, photocomics, which were all about romantic love stories, hence the name.
They were read by young women with long hair with side partings, a flower in their ear and slanted eyeliner, who wore mini skirts, would go to the περίπτερο in plastic slippers to buy bubblegum and a magazine. Yes, I am describing a neighbour here. She was probably 18, she was a Toula or Soula she was a trainee hairdresser, had dropped out of school and was probably a 70s version of 1960s Aliki Vougiouklaki. My grandmother strongly disapproved of her clothes, shoes (or lack thereof) and demeanour, especially popping bubble gum and gossiping.
On the other end of the spectrum, a Πανθεον reader was our next door neighbour, in her 30s, well educated for a woman of the time, a civil servant married to an accountant, they had BOOKS at home, she used to have useless hobbies like macrame and they used to have wild parties every Carnival season.
OK, reminiscing over. Back to work...
