I miss Seventeen Magazine

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter loved these Brio magazines for teen girls:

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/brio-magazine/

Disgusting! I hope you’re being sarcastic.

OMG people. stop being so judgemental and rude. did anyone actually read the articles??? this might not be for you, but it might be interesting to other people. why put someone down just because their beliefs and interests are different from yours. just don't say anything next time, ok?

[Anonymous]

I loved Cosmo!! I started reading it at 14, and I feel so much more educated on the female body and birth control and other situations that I read about it there, than some of my friends my age now don't even know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a great magazine back in the 80s and 90s for teens. Lots of great memories from it. I know it’s only online now but it pales in comparison to what it used to be, and just seems so trashy. Is there any recommendation out there for another teen magazine or online sites that my daughter could join?

Late ‘70s for me. Loved Seventeen!

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Anonymous wrote:omg i lived off of Seventeen, YM, and Sassy. Marie Claire and Glamour were later like senior year of high school. And Cosmo (I would read my older sister's) back in those days was the racier of the bunch. lol. I so wish there was an equivalent to YM/Seventeen that my daughter could read. Those magazines were formative for me in learning about style and make-up, health-related/relationship topics, learning about issues of the time impacting young women. My teen gets random bits of information from tiktok and that's just not the same and has zero substance.

Yeah, I often find myself wishing there were some source of advice about personal hygiene and sexual health for my DD that came in the mail in a glossy package rather than out of my mouth. Not that I’m necessarily afraid to talk about these things with her, she just doesn’t want to hear about it from me. And agree that TikTok has taken the place of those magazines, but it’s such a cesspool and can be really bad for them mentally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter loved these Brio magazines for teen girls:

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/brio-magazine/

Disgusting! I hope you’re being sarcastic.

OMG people. stop being so judgemental and rude. did anyone actually read the articles??? this might not be for you, but it might be interesting to other people. why put someone down just because their beliefs and interests are different from yours. just don't say anything next time, ok?

Focus on the Family is against LGBT rights and women's rights. That's pretty disgusting to a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

Ahhhh, I loved my magazones so much! When my daughter was little, she LOVED American Girl magazine, and I thought it was really well done. There was never a great opiton for her to move onto. (Girls' World is OK, but you know it's not the same.)

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I subscribed to Seventeen in the late '80s/early '90s and liked it, but my friend got Sassy, and I LOVED doing the Sassy quizzes.

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My 16 yo daughter gets Vogue. It’s really good!

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Magazines are truly missed. Even as a teen I read parts of Time and Newsweek most weeks, and Sports Illustrated always had something in it worth reading. And, even if we didn’t always understand them, we always read the cartoons in New Yorker and maybe when we got older checked out the movie reviews (Pauline Kael was truly great).

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I started reading all those magazines around 6th grade, which I think was prime “marketing target” for them but definitely too young, in hindsight. I didn’t need to learn how to satisfy my man or apply eyeliner at that age, I should’ve still been a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I read 17 in the 80's. I had a job in the 90's working as the exec asst for the buyer for a large chain. She saw me reading all the teen magazines she got as part of her job and said "Oh, I hate reading those -- do you want to start reading them as part of your job but I need to stay on top of what they say are the trends. Just put a sticky on anything you think I should see." So I would spend hours a day flipping through all those magazines while I waited for her phone to ring and I would tell people she wasn't available and could I take a message. Such a good job. Except for the pay and benefits.

I'd love to have that job! If I didn't need money or benefits of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote::I used to be a designer at seventeen.
Early sassy was the best. The rest were trash designed to make young women feel bad about themselves, so they would be good little consumers of products to help make them feel better.

I don’t recall ever feeling bad about myself reading them! I enjoyed the ride. And a lot of us loved the makeup ads! I certainly did. I mean compare them to the ugly Dove ads we now see with every thing hanging out (even though I myself am fat and jiggle everywhere). But those ads are turn offs to me. I want to aspire to beautiful. Anyway I loved the makeup ads and experimented with finding myself with colors and style. Good times!

I want you to know you ARE beautiful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote::I used to be a designer at seventeen.
Early sassy was the best. The rest were trash designed to make young women feel bad about themselves, so they would be good little consumers of products to help make them feel better.

I don’t recall ever feeling bad about myself reading them! I enjoyed the ride. And a lot of us loved the makeup ads! I certainly did. I mean compare them to the ugly Dove ads we now see with every thing hanging out (even though I myself am fat and jiggle everywhere). But those ads are turn offs to me. I want to aspire to beautiful. Anyway I loved the makeup ads and experimented with finding myself with colors and style. Good times!

I want you to know you ARE beautiful

Thank you for saying that! You brought some emotional tears to my eyes. Kindness rules!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They really were! It’s a shame our teens can’t enjoy these mags like we did. Life is so heavy now without them. I would read them and feel transported to another place and felt happy. I wish my daughters could feel the same way. Now I look at what is online aimed at them and it’s just not joyful, youthful or fun. It’s all tension, and stuff that’s too grown up to be worrying about in this point of their lives. It’s all so serious and in your face. What happened to having class, decorum, fun and just being a teen!

Girls World is a good print magazine. Fashion, celebs, friendship quizzes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss Sassy. Seventeen was hot makeup company garbage.

Why do you feel it's necessary to piss on other people's happy memories? Something is wrong with you.