I only really buy magazines if I forget to bring my iPod or book with me on the train, so I'll buy something like Glamour or Cosmo. I always buy Happy, however - I'm not sure why I love it so much, maybe because it's shopping-based, and has so many great product picks.

I don't see the point in buying magazines anymore, when great blogs like Catwalk Queen, Shoewawa, and Star Trip exist - there's no point in spending £2 a month on Glamour, when you can get all the info free on the net!

Posted by: The Bag Lady | September 26, 2006 4:03 PM

Magazines are many things to me. A magazine is an experience. It's a piece of art. It's emotional. It's about the scent (some mags have their own specific scent) and about touching the magazine's pages. It's like opening up a dream, a world in itself, and stepping into it. The ads become experiences also. The arrival of fashion blogs are a nice addition (Catwalkqueen is great!!), but they do not replace at all the satisfaction which comes with buying and having a magazine. It's so hard to have to throw some away to make place for new ones, in a way they are almost like books to me (I am thinking about covering the walls with them like a piece of art!!) I have kept all my US Instyle magazines since forever, along with the US Harpers Bazaar, and Oprah's O Magazines (plus US Shape and Fitness magazine...and a few others..). I do admit to not always reading them cover to cover anymore, since I sort of devour them mostly for the pictures and items. Some practicality in a magazine is important, photo shoots on absolutely unwearable items can be very beautiful, but are mostly useless-you have to be able to relate, which is why I painfully end up leaving the American Vogue on the magazine stand. And it's not about celebrities, it is about lush content, beautiful layouts, style and newness. I guess my passion might drive me to work for a magazine one day...!

Posted by: Catherine | September 26, 2006 4:08 PM

I love fashion magazines. US Marie Claire is the only one I subscribe to - in part because they tend to feature clothes I might actually be able to afford, and because the articles tend to be well-written - but I also purchase the others at the newsstand; often a Saturday lunch for me consists of hummus, triscuits, and whichever magazine at the checkout I haven't bought yet.

Posted by: Amanda | September 26, 2006 4:13 PM

I used to be addicted to magazines, but these days I'll really only buy them if, as you say, there's a long plane ride or something to be got through. They just don't seem worth the money to me, now, although I guess I'm biased: I spend so much time on the web that it seems natural do all my magazine reading there too now!

Posted by: Amber | September 26, 2006 4:18 PM

There's a guilty pleasure in things like Vogue and Elle... just because they're so wonderfully shallow. It's all advert, clothes we can't afford, 'high street picks' that are really just the things that cost under a grand (Harrods is on a street, right?) and... well, little else. I prefer magazines with more interesting stuff in, more features, more stuff to read instead of pages and pages of adverts- How do they get away with it, though? Some are pretty, aye, but they won't put that many ads on telly.

I'm still at a loss as to what these top magazine editors actually DO.

Posted by: Julia | September 26, 2006 4:29 PM

I am often at my happiest when i am lounging on the sofa with a brand new copy of Vogue and a cup of hot coffee. For me its the anticipation of what awaits inside. I always read the mag from cover to cover, i usually flick through it first and then i go back to the beginning. And i'm sorry to say, i often see clothes or read fashion news in the magazines before the blogs mention them. I also love the adverts, they sometimes show items that you don't see else where. And i love looking at all the pretty things i may never afford, cos a girls gotta dream. In fact i think i'm just shallow and love a glimpse of a life i can only dream of.
As for who is on the cover, that never makes a difference, i buy a magazine because i enjoy it not because there's an interview with some celebrity or other inside. I do however wish they would stop giving away free bags and t-shirts which don't fit or which shrink in the first wash.
Its not just vogue i read, Glamour and Instyle are also favorites, although i am trying to cut down. I am a fahion magazine junkie!!

Posted by: Sarah | September 26, 2006 8:13 PM

I am particularly lucky as the school library gets Vogue delivered free each month, so I can go and read that...as for the others, I usually only get them before a long car or train journey.

Posted by: Xanthippe | September 26, 2006 9:13 PM

I love to read fashion magazines, but I have to admit that mags like Vogue get me down a bit because I'm not exactly flush living as a grad student. Also, I don't really like Cosmo and Glamour because they deviate too much from fashion. Vogue, Lucky, Bazaar, Marie Claire, and Elle are fun, though, since they don't have stupid boyfriend articles. Shop, Etc. can be worth buying for the coupons.

Still, I'm only subscribed to Cooking Light. I live just round the corner from Borders, and I read tons of stuff over there!

Posted by: Hannah | September 26, 2006 10:19 PM

Ilov eGrazia and get it every week on subscription! My excuse is that there was an offer I wanted (Origins). I also love Vogue and always buy a glossy to take on holiday but because of the subscription not at other times. I don't like Cosmo as it's always 'how to get your man' type comments - I really only like fashion mags. I agree about the freebies that are mostly rubbish. I keep all the bags by my front door and use them for shopping to help recycle and not use plastic!!! How green am I!!! Actually yhe bag that happy had in the summer was quite nice.

Posted by: Deb | September 26, 2006 10:22 PM

I'd stopped reading fashions magazines and just recently resubscribed to a bunch (super cheap deal on ebay). Truthfully, I'd kinda lost interest in fahsion for a while but fashion blogs and forums reawakened my interest. But, I find them a bit behind the times now. They still try to push whatever the trend forecasters predicted would be big this season, even if it's already flopped. I find more up-to-date and useful information (particularly shopping links and information on brand quality and fit) on fashion forums than I do in magazines.

Posted by: Lee | September 26, 2006 10:59 PM

I think magazines are a waste of money because more then half of the magazines are makeup and lotion and clothing ads.

Posted by: Regina | September 26, 2006 11:54 PM

I buy Vogue, TeenVogue, and Elle every time they put a new one out.

I read them cover to cover, then cut them up for collaging textbooks/my room walls and then what's left of them goes on a bookshelf.

Posted by: Yeah. | September 27, 2006 12:12 AM

I read any magazine that crosses my path cover to cover, nonstop. The only exception has been the Sept Vogue, which is very big and very inspirational. I'm savoring it. I don't usually read it, though.

Posted by: Val | September 27, 2006 2:23 AM

Nothing can beat a solid magazine just as nothing can beat a ratty old novel that is handed down over the generations...

also, ure not gna cart ure laptop around everywhere so a handy bag size mag is good! Plus i do like the ads...though not too much!

Posted by: christina | September 27, 2006 2:56 PM

I LOVE magazines especially Grazia, Elle, Vogue, InStyle and Glamour. I subscribe to Vogue, InStyle and Glamour and usually wait for a good offer to subscribe. I love getting them in the post and get really excited on a Tuesday when Grazia comes out. It's really sad but I don't care! I skimp through them all first time and then read them cover to cover. I don't like Cosmo as I find it's full of rubbish and don't really read Marie Claire unless there's someone I like on the cover.

Posted by: Geri | September 27, 2006 3:39 PM

I subscribe to a good handful of magazines - half of which are Fashion/Lifestyle magazines: Allure, Glamour, Jane, etc. I'm still trying to find the magazine for ME. I love looking at magazines though. I tear out sheets of my favorite styles and ads for inspiration because I work in the industry.

I agree with Geri regarding Cosmo. It's more sex tips than anything and it tends to repeat itself.

Vanity Fair and Vogue are tops, but I'm getting too many magazines as it is so I'll wait until some finish up before I subscribe to those. However, it seems like they just show us the good stuff without telling us where people with our income can get it - so I check up with In Style and the above for those tips.

Posted by: honey | September 27, 2006 6:46 PM

If I'm in a shop, I'll take a wee peek at the gossip mags, or the NME or Q or something, or if I'm in WHSmith, I'm usually looking at Vogue or something :P I'm tight so I don't buy any. Haha. My mum gets the Hello! mag sometimes, I love looking at the pictures in it.

Posted by: Gee | September 27, 2006 9:01 PM

I read US fashion magazines. I have a subscription to Jane, Vogue, Glamour and (loathingly) Lucky. I hate Lucky magazine because the clothes they feature or put together are awful. I read them because I like the pictures and the articles that (sometimes) make sense. I love Vogue because it's everything I could never afford but could easily mimic. I like all the ads in Vogue because they are beautifully shot along with the photos that go with the articles. I like having the actual magazine in my hand. I don't get all my fashion "news" on-line.

Posted by: Miranda | September 28, 2006 1:19 AM

I read Happy, which no one else has mentioned!! I love it cos its all shopping, with none or very little gossip. If i want gossip i'll go to the internet, but Happy is the only mag i would never miss. Its great to carry into a shop and say 'have you got that' and point. Sure you can print the pics off the web or something, but a mag will always be there, with out having to try and remember the site you saw those shoes, or whatever!

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Posted by: Russian_bride | October 4, 2006 9:56 PM

I have a subscription to Grazia - which then gets passed to my mother (agged 76) and distributed around the grey army in manchester! My mum sends me occasional Hello magazines from her network of friends. They seem to have a good magazine library going!
I have bought Happy and liked it - but I have to have my weekly dose of Grazia.
The bad thing is that it arrives in the post on tuesday after I go to work - so I see it on the newsagents shelves before I get to open my copy.

Posted by: Ros | October 22, 2006 2:22 AM

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

Posted by: shoemissy.com | November 4, 2006 4:24 PM

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!

Posted by: Stacey | April 9, 2007 11:20 AM

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!

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