European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes saturday october 14, 1967 Britain Model boys by Joan Deppa up staff writer boys will be boys but Beautiful. So spoke the fashion pundits in 1967, the year of the Peacock male and a veritable multitude of the gorgeous creatures have appeared in the British Isles to fulfil their prophecy. To help things along English boy ltd.," a unique Model Agency for unique models was formed to guide the careers of Britain s prettiest boys arid to provide Clearing House for followers of fashion who wished to employ Are models to Model yourself on not just models to Model clothes said Trisha Locke themis skirted girl who runs the Agency with a baronet and another rather Beautiful boys themselves Are invariably slender. The average Chest is 36," she of them have girl friends. Except the girls usually Aren t As pretty As the Yare Trisha added. Their clothes Are their taste is so far ahead of everybody else a the girl explained reaching for a red Tele phone ringing at one of its regular intervals. Two telephones and a tiny psychedelic ally painted office Over an Avant Garde boutique off King s Road in Chelsea which has replaced Carnaby Street for London s trend setting set Are the Agency s Only in animate secret of its considerable Success is the tribe of gaily sometimes weirdly dressed boys who Drift up to lounge on cushions in a Corner drink Coffee from an automatic machine and Check their assign ments. Jess Down sat on a Grey Cushion that set off his Turquoise jacket and Pale Green boots. It s an honorable Way of financing anything else you might want to do he said though he seemed unsure of what else he might want to do. Perhaps film acting. If somebody asked me i would t say Dawson folded his 6-Fopt, 4-Inch Frame into the closet Section of an old repainted wardrobe which serves As the office filing Cabinet. A girl Friend of his had yellow jaundice he told the others watching them from beneath a Long dutch boy blonde hairstyle. I think i be got a touch of i myself he said smiling inscrutable. Nikki Kremer wore the anti Hairdo so popular wit London youth at the moment his curly hair Back combed into a wild fuzz which nearly submerged his delicate features. I Don t consider myself a hippie do you he asked apparently surprised that his Saffron yellow tunic and garlands of beads should be mistaken for Flower Power gear. I just want to turn people on to Long hair that you should t judge a Book by that you should t judge the age of a tree by it height suggested Jess looking at the Long lanky Allen one of the newest English boys was not so much at ease though in his own particular Wayne was the most striking of the lot. The Agency s pretty directness Calls him tin Tim because he looks like something out of a Charles Dickens classic with his snub nose woebegone innocence and habit of standing on the sides of his joined English boy because a lot of my friends were doing it but he could become the Nikki Kremer spruced up in anti Hairdo awaits modelling Job. Pictured behind him Are other pretty boy male models. Up a More conservative male Model. Is photo by Milne one of the Carnaby Street boys. Almost too husky to be fashionable. 1968 style boy a sort of male Twiggy according to photographers who have already used him. Which could mean next year s boys will Wear scarves tied around their forehead Apache style and women s brocade jackets Over their pop Art s what he was wearing. Originally then we started last february we had about 12 Wys most of them personal friends who were Beautiful people Trisha Locke think we be succeeded partially because we be kept it very personal even though we have about 50or 60 boys at any one time now. The Glossy magazines started using us almost immediately and photographers from the big Continental publications like Elle and Stern who used to jus come Over to London and snap people they found on the Street find it convenient to come to re breaking Down resistance in the advertising Field which is where the real Money is though the still seem to prefer the Middle class concept of men she said. When we started we Felt there was a need for something like this said one1 of her partners Kelvin Webb himself wearing a Bright chartreuse jacket Over a Maroon Polo neck sweater. Now that we re doing so Well there s no Point in not doing s other partner sir Mark Palmer who once served As a Page to Queen Elizabeth ii was temporarily in Italy where some of the English boys were working on a s really amazing How Well known we be become in such a Short time and How Many men want to become English boys " Trisha said. Looking Back i guess it was a pretty Brave thing to do. It was such a new image that nobody had really dared to try it the Beautiful boys like it
