Rags Lives!: March 2008

Monday, March 17, 2008

March 1971 Tads Ad

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Ad for Tads pants and jeans.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Nov. 1970 Jean Art

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Ideas for enhancing jeans.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Feb. 1971 Camera Jim Marshall

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Backstage rock photography by Jim Marshall. Janis Joplin, Wayne Ceballos, Albert King, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Hank Crawford.

Rags was a counterculture fashion magazine ahead of its time. Published monthly in San Francisco from June 1970 through June 1971, its focus was street fashion rather than the fashion found in store windows. At the time I was a high school student, and Rags had a profound impact on my life. It is my all-time favorite magazine -- interesting from a historical perspective and still relevant today.

Many thanks to Baron Wolman, renowned photographer and publisher of Rags, for his kind permission to post pages of the magazine here.

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