A favourite Sindy side-collecting hobby for some is collecting and understanding the Trendy Brides. Gill and Julia who both collect these girls are great friends of the Museum and have added greatly to the Sindy Trendy Bride page in the past.
Julia contacted the museum with a cutting she had recently bought. There was no information on when or where the cutting was from, but it was a very interesting read. Not least because it stated that Youngs would make up Sindy brides for people using their drawings and photos, even if that bridal gown had not been hired from Youngs. Not so dissimilar to their business in the 1950s where you could contact Youngs with a drawing of a bridal outfit you desired, and Youngs would make it up for you to hire for the big day.
I wondered if the cutting was from maybe 1976 when Youngs joined up with Pronuptia and were looking to sell off their Sindy stock. The article referred to “FAB’s found the answer.” Could it be Fab 208 we speculated? But Fabulous 208 was a weekly magazine and as a rough estimate we reckoned we would need to look though at least 200 issues if we worked on just finding magazines from 1972 to 1976. If we could even find pictures of all the pages. The back of the cutting did have a copyright date of 1972 (a surprise to me) and we then wondered if it was a David Cassidy page?
It was midnight by now, so instead of calling it a night we started looking for picture of a Fabulous 208 David Cassidy column which matched the words shown on the back of Julia’s article. Julia literally checked every photo she could find from Fab magazines on the internet and luckily I found a Facebook page which showed all of David Cassidy’s Fabulous 208 columns. Despite our different methods we found the same page almost simultanously. Then we found the magazine actually for sale too! Didn’t really know if it had the article, but I bought it anyway and crawled into bed.
Now, Gill had also bought an untouched bride still in her original box and offered the photos to the museum. Her bride provided valuable information on how these brides were packaged. In addition her bride still had the original polystyrene stand. Cue Gill, Julia and I checking our brides’ legs to see what we had because we knew at least some might have been glued to polystyrene, but we didn’t have a clue what that looked like. Julia found such a bride in her collection which helped enormously.
So with the generous help of Gill and Julia, our Sindy Trendy Bride has been substantially updated to show the packaging, polystyrene stand, the Fabulous 208 article, and a new Silver Trendy Bride which comes with dating evidence and a sincere and sweet message from the original owner.
Kathy and I often marvel at just how far this page has come, we love the Brides and we hope you do too.
Hey there, a few years ago, I bought a sindy doll wearing this dress. I keep wondering if it was an original Trendy Girl Bride.
n.b. can’t seem to attach my photo anywhere!
Hello Wendy, thank you for this message, we have written to you!