Swinging Sixties

…and I’m not talking about granny-swapping at the retirement home, either.

Earlier in the week, I referred to the “Swinging 60s” in talking about the late Jane Birkin, and I found her pics in a long-forgotten pic folder of similar totties.  So why not show them?  After all, they make a great review of what the latter half of that decade was all about.

Anita Pallenberg

Brigitte Bardot

Charlotte Rampling

Françoise Hardy

Jane Seymour

Jean Shrimpton

Judy Geeson

Julie Christie

Julie Ege

Lulu

Lynda Bellingham

Lynn Redgrave

Sally Geeson

Twiggy

Verushka

Random Totties

Bygone Broads 8

Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College.  Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:

And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:

I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts.  A fitting end, I think, to this series.

Random Totty

Here’s the lovely TV actress Samia Longchambon, who first appeared on Britsoap Coronation Street  back in 2000 at age 18, and twenty-three years later, is still at it.  Here she is as a youngin:

   

And now, at around age 40:

…this one was taken last week:

Lovely.

Bygone Broads 7

In this, the penultimate of the series for now, we look at another two examples of teenage boys’ boner-starters of a bygone era.  First, the 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT 350:

…and as their contemporaneous companion piece, so to speak, the pouty Brigitte Bardot:

 

What a pair.