Petticoat

Petticoat was a British weekly magazine for young women which was published from 1966 - the height of the Swinging Sixties - until 1975, in London by Fleetway/IPC, printed in 40 page issues by Eric Bemrose in Long Lane, Liverpool. Launched by Honey magazine founder Audrey Slaughter and subtitled 'For the young and fancy free' on its original masthead, Petticoat responded to the emergence of a more liberal teenager and young woman. From 9-Sep-1967, it absorbed Trend, renaming itself Petticoat/Trend until it dropped the latter name about a year later. By this time, its slogan had changed to 'The New Young Woman’.

The magazine offered fiction, popular culture, fashion news featuring labels like Biba, Mary Quant, Foale & Tuffin and Bus Stop, and advice on love, sex, healthy eating, hair, and make-up, with plenty of full-colour photographs and Pop style monochrome line illustrations and typography. Petticoat promoted the Mod fashion of 'Swinging London'. (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Peel is known to have written a column for Petticoat during 1969, although none have been found so far. However a quote from one column was included in an ad for Colosseum in Melody Maker of 28 June 1969.

Petticoat might seem an unexpected place to find a Peel column, as the DJ was not knwwn for his interest in fashion, but he would have sympathised with Petticoat's liberal "new young woman" agenda. Among the contributors to the magazine was his future Radio 1 colleague Anne Nightingale.