On the cover of Wellington City Magazine (formerly Cosmo), the capital’s short-lived cultural manual of the era, Lorraine Mexted’s face greets readers with a smile. ROSA WOODS/Stuff Library historian Gabor Toth with copies of Cosmo magazine, later Wellington City Magazine, which he’s helped digitise. READ MORE:* Wellington's rare books on the way to safer shelves* 'Trash and filth': Emails released over controversial Critic menstruation cover* Tess Holliday scores Cosmo magazine coverROSA WOODS/Stuff Fashion was a highlight of the magazine. It thereafter became Wellington City Magazine. The digitised copies of Cosmo and Wellington City Magazine join thousands of old photographs, historical magazines, books, pamphlets, ephemera, school and church parish histories and other Wellington-focussed material on the Recollect archive.

Source: Stuff June 04, 2021 17:00 UTC