CQ's Hot Topic: What Do You REALLY Think Of Magazines?

CQ's Hot Topic isour new Tuesday feature where we ask for your thoughts on a big fashion topic. It would be really fantastic if you could take a few minutes to leave a comment with your thoughts each week. It'll help us to learn a bit more about our readers and hopefully make this site even better for you.

This week we want to know exactly what you think of women's / fashion magazines.
Do you still buy them and read them cover to cover, or do you think it's a waste of cash when there are so many great fashion blogs and websites you can visit for free? Are you a slave to Vogue, or do you only buy glossies if you've got a long train / plane journey to go on? Is advertising, advertorial and promotional content doing your head in, or do you tolerate it because you think magazines provide you with stuff you just can't find online? Have you had it up to here with celeb covergirls, or are you more likely to buy a mag with Mischa on the cover rather than a model? Which mags do you love and which do you loathe? Tell us everything and don't hold back!

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AnneMarie Callan

Losing myself for a couple of hours with a brand new glossy magazine, a cup of tea, some chocolate biscuits - just heaven. Somehow you can never capture that feeling on the internet!!

Alison

I am loyal to two mags, More and Glamor. The price of mags are ridiculous nowadays, and most are filled with adverts for things most of us cant afford anyhow!

Stacey

I buy New! every week. I like the pictures of celebs and gossip, however they do tend to cover a lot of stuff I'm not really interested in (BB and X Factor for example). They do a great selection of high street fashion (nice and affordable) but it's been recently downsized for more celeb news. Their selection on diet and exercise used to be really great; a summary of what the diet was and how it worked with some sample menus, now it's anything faddy, regardless of how poorly researched it is.

I used to read Glamour but gave up. There are far too many adverts and high end designer brands that I can't afford right now. The artices used to be great, a blend of humour and helpfulness but now are just about advancing your career and getting your way with any man you want.

I've bought issues here and there of Red (which struck me as a married-with-kids woman's mag); Closer and Now which had all the bad features of New!; OK and Hello featured boring pictorials with the same people over and over again and most annoyingly didn't feature interviews with most of the people on the front page.

I've also bought Grazia but didn't want to carry on as I think £1.70 (?) a week is far too much for a small glossy.

I'm considering switching to Cosmopolitan or even Cosmo Girl, depending on which features more high street brands and accessible items and prices.

I've considered buying Vogue but flipping through it on more than one occassion finds me putting it back on the shelf, it seems too snooty to me.

As for online blogs and magazines, I believe I'm slowly been converted, I know website where I can download higher quality pictures so I can emulate make up and hairstyles and even organise desirable clothes into folders on my computer.

Sorry for rambling, hope it helps!

shoemissy.com

Anyone wanna buy 5 years of vogue? been subscribing but have really lost interest, only september and march are worth buying for the free pullout trend section. Love grazia, have friended them on myspace, they are the frontrunner as my peers and I see it- happy is good too.....does feel like more of an indulgence now we can get free fashion online