...He asks you out. You’ve been in London three weeks. You’ve been to the movies alone five times. You’ve eaten thirteen tins of baked beans. You think he looks dangerous. You accept. He takes you for a meal—one they used to put on expense accounts and now write off to personal sex accounts. He’s wearing a snakeskin suit. It has the insidious imprint of the King’s Road Own Seduction Corps. King’s regulations are strictly for the birds and you’re barely hatched. You’ve made the first move backwards by wearing a very almost-not-there dress which Mummy said was common when you were home last weekend... Excerpt from 'Well, there has to be a first time, doesn't there?'. Illustrated by Malcolm Bird. Scanned by Miss Peelpants from 19 magazine, April 1972. For the full text, go to emmapeelpants.wordpress.com #1970s #malcolmbird #illustration #19magazine