Glamour Magazine

Pros: great articles
Cons: too many advertisements

I guess I can be classified as a typical woman. And under the definition for a typical woman...you would find one that reads magazines on a regular basis. The magazines can range from GLAMOUR to PLAYBOY to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. My...

Pros: Current interest articles interspersed with fashion and beauty advice, excellent photography, varied subject matter
Cons: Overabundance of advertisements

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you -- I am back (after a 4 month hiatus) and more fabulous than ever!

Since my birthday's in November, I treated myself to a few indulgences; a bottle of Merlot, a new lipstick, and November's...

Pros: Fun, fluffy read; lots of fashion and makeup emphasis.
Cons: Not terribly stimulating; little substantive content.

I’m a sucker for a sale.  I’ll buy almost anything if it’s 70% off, because THINK OF THE SAVINGS.  So it’s no surprise that when I saw a special for a year’s subscription to Glamour for $5, I jumped at it, even ...

Pros: Good photos of women. Entertaining two minute reads. Teens seem to love it!
Cons: Although Glamour does offer many opportunities to celebreties and models, it does not personify a positve role model for our women today. I know, I know... I'm taking it too serious!

I admit it, I am a sucker for free anything. I accepted an offer from Enews.com for a free ninety day trial of Glamour. "Wow," I said. A good price on a magazine I devoured when I was younger. Younger being the key word here. As a mom of two...

Pros: Colorful, helpful, great stories and tips, balances beauty/fashion with deeper issues
Cons: Only comes once a month!

I wonder. Has Glamour undergone a full-body makeover since 2000? Because I just started subscribing to the magazine in September of 2003 and I couldn't be happier with it, but my fellow reviewers don't seem to agree with me! If anyone is currently ...

Pros: some interesting articles
Cons: lame imitation of Cosmo. in it's prime

What was once a great mix of Ms. and Cosmo. has turned into almost a parody of what a women's magazine should be.Glamour was the first magazine I subscribed to and it will probably be the first one I cancel. Ever since editor-in-chief Bonnie Fuller took...

Pros: Interesting article, well written
Cons: Perfumy Ads

Glamour Magazine is one my favorite monthly reads. What do I like about this magazine over others?

For one thing I like the fact that they show more than one body size and shape when they review clothes. We women are all shapes and sizes and...

Pros: geared towards 20-30 year olds that don't have a million dollars to spend on clothes
Cons: a lot of ads

I'm 23 and after reading magazines like YM and Seventeen my whole life, I was getting a little old for them. No longer were crushes and most embarrassing moments, or high school Q&A important to me anymore. I needed to find a magazine more geared to...

Pros: Interesting articles, low cost
Cons: Sometimes feels like an extension of Cosmo

I have subscribed to this magazine for well over two years, and I have to admit, it is much like Cosmopolitan. Now, that is not necessarily a bad thing. For all the reasons you love Cosmo, you will love Glamour as well.
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Pros: Used to be great, still more political than the competition, some realistic articles
Cons: Dramatic, tragic decline in recent times, targets Ally McBeal instead of Norma Rae

Like nearly every other woman in North America, I grew up with Glamour. The 'How to do Anything Better Guide' was as much an institution as any 'Reader's Digest' column, and Glamour as a whole was universally appealing: not so girly that a...

Pros: Variety of articles, decent content
Cons: Lacks a real Identity

I bet those of you who are avid readers of my reviews are saying to yourself, "Geez, another magazine? It's so much like the last one she wrote about!" Yes, I admit it! I'm a magazine addict! Glamour is one of my three main magazines that I...

Pros: Pretty pictures
Cons: Insults the reader's intelligence

I started reading Glamour in the second grade! My mom was a subscriber since the mid-70s, and I picked up copies lying around the house. My teacher at the time was pregnant, so I made her a binder featuring clippings from the "Your Pregnancy"...

Pros: Some nice pictures
Cons: Everything else

THE PHOTOGRAPHY

Glamour's photography takes an interesting approach for a mainstream fashion magazine. Their target audience happens to be unmarried 20-something women who desperately want to be beautiful and fashionable on a middle-class...

Pros: can be mindlessly entertaining at times
Cons: tired, unoriginal

Okay, I admit it. Until recently, I practiced next to no discrimination when buying a magazine. Whenever I was at the grocery store and came up to the checkout line, I succumbed to the itch to buy a new rag. They all taunted and teased with cover lines...

Pros: A relatively stable and consistent history of being one of the top womens' magazines
Cons: Recent changes view women as sex-pots, shallow and concerned w/fluff

I used to be a regular magazine junkie for Glamour magazine. It was my favourite magazine primarily for it's content, which was always relevant, interesting and well-written, and secondary for the light fare such as the fashion (loved the Do's and...