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Lucy Pinder Shoots for Nuts

Lucy Pinder in the pages of Nuts, the British men's weekly that made glamour a weekly habit.

Nuts arrived on UK newsstands as a weekly, and that schedule shaped everything about it. Where a monthly could spend weeks planning a location shoot abroad, a weekly needed a steady supply of features every seven days, and it leaned on a roster of glamour models to fill them. This feature with Lucy Pinder is one of those sets.

A Nuts feature usually followed a familiar pattern. There was a cover line to catch the eye at the till, a short introduction in the magazine's chatty house voice, and then several pages of pictures, often shot in a studio or a rented house with simple, bright styling. The tone was playful rather than polished; the magazine was selling fun and familiarity rather than high fashion.

Sets like this one were passed around blogs and forums long after the issue itself had left the shelves, and that afterlife was typical of the era. A weekly magazine was gone in a few days, but its features lived on online, sometimes with more readers than the printed issue ever had.

For anyone who followed British glamour around the turn of the decade, features like this sit in the memory alongside the readers' polls, the calendar previews and the end-of-year round-ups that the weeklies built their identity on.

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