They weren’t as fashionable as mini-skirts were, unless you were a rocker!
Funnily enough, I never wear anything but trousers now, and haven’t worn a skirt for years and years, even a long one!
1969: Life with the Maxi #4
We’re running out of ideas now. Would the dog really mistake her for a tree?
Despite my green maxi, I was never mistaken for a tree! 
Or for a lamp-post, come to that!
So you say. 
Well, I think I might have noticed if a dog had cocked it’s leg against me! :shock: :shock:
1979: On the danger list
The man with the seagull on his lap looks justifiably apprehensive when looking at the other animals in the vet’s waiting room.
That reminds me of the time when I took my cat to the vet’s, in a cardboard box (with airholes!).
This particular cat had a particularly dominant personality and was extremely feisty, and made her displeasure known by yowling and caterwauling very loudly, and by scrabbling away at the box.
Everyone in the room was looking quite aghast, and they were probably wondering what sort of lynx or wildcat I had in this box.
The yowling got louder and the scrabbling got more destructive.
Anyway, my cat managed to scrabble a hole in the box, so I thought I’d better get her out and hold her on my lap, and I said as much.
People were looking very worried as I opened up the box and started to lift her out.
Their worried looks turned into an explosion of laughter, because my cat was only about three or four months old, and was still a kitten, so was tiny.
The noise and scrabbling, though, would have more befitted a creature like the Beast of Bodmin.
Everyone roared with laughter at this ‘ferocious’ beast. It was quite embarrassing! 
1978: ‘If I was going to Tipperary I wouldn’t start from here’
If the dead hitch hiker had really wanted to get to Vladivostok, he should have broken down the journey into manageable chunks.
1974: At home with Hieronymus Bosch
A mediaeval Dutch painter, Bosch was well known for his fantastic art. Here the artist suggests that his paintings were inspired by his dreams. Mrs Bosch looks rather voluptuous.
Thank you, Mr. Magoo… that was a huge help in aiding me solve a crossword clue without having to look up Dutch painters! 
(The answer was botch… Bosch with the ‘s’ substituted by a ‘t’).
1979: Immigration
This is hardly a laughing matter. This desk bound functionary is quoting from (and adding to) the inscription at the Statue of Liberty in New York. Are we to assume that he is speaking ironically and intends to impose the strict letter of the law in deciding who is, and who is not, allowed sanctuary in the U S of A? Is he capable of bending the rules in order to make his speech a true account of his intention? However we look at this it does not look at all funny.
Perhaps they need to print a copy of that on Trump’s wall? 
1975: A minority opinion
This whole scene is surely satirical. The trendy TV programme and the trendy viewer (and family) alert us to the absurd pretention of calling Beatlemania in such grandiloquent terms. The people are portrayed in unnatural (and presumably trendy) shapes.
1980: Another grim story
Two vultures are looking at a series of severed heads attached to poles in the ground. This genre is known as ‘gallows humour’ and marks a serious change to the mainstream of Punch jokes.
1980: Blatant corruption
Punch’s days were numbered by 1980. This cartoon strikes me as a desperate attempt to make a come back by attacking some sacred cows. Scroggins is the man on the left. The inspector is in the middle. The man on the right looks to me like a barrister. (Surely not the magistrate or the judge!) How times had changed by the time Punch ceased publication.
1983: Exception to the norm
I sense that this joke is ironic. The idea is that Deborah is expected to ignore her domestic interests because of a passionate support for the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Here it is the old, not the new norm, that appears to be dominant although we are meant to think the opposite was the case.
1980: More Rodin
Larry is again using Rodin as a base for his joke. He specialised in middle aged men jokes – they all looked like the two here.
Wot? No socks?
1980: Threats in Suburbia
The message being read aloud reads as follows:
We have got your gnome and unless you trim your side of the hedge by Sunday.
Life in the suburbs is seldom as violent as this…
You can’t see the last part of that message on the cartoon, even when you enlarge it.
Is it possible that the text was printed below the cartoon?