Fashion Files - A Crime of Fashion

Have you committed any of these fashion crimes lately?

These simple bits of advice from Secret Hearts #140 (December 1969) pretty much hold true today, though I am not sure that Lindsay Lohan got the memo! Notice the green skirt/green tights combo -- a favorite here at Sequential Crush.

Fashion Files - The Peter Pan Look

Flipping through the pages of romance comics from 1969 to 1971 yield a plethora of monochromatic green outfits -- usually involving green tights. Fashion statement or perhaps an overabundance of green ink in those years? You decide!!!

Secret Hearts #133 (January 1969)

Girls' Romances #143 (September 1969)
Cover by John Rosenberger

Girls' Romances #138 (January 1969)
Pencils by Vince Colletta

Girls' Love Stories #147 (November 1969)

Falling in Love #108 (July 1969)
Pencils by Wally Wood

Falling in Love #108 (July 1969)
Pencils by John Rosenberger

Young Love #81 (August 1970)


Heart Throbs #130 (February/March 1971)