Betty Magazine – Founder and editor, Charlotte Jacklin. Betty is an independent magazine; Charlotte describes it as vintage with a modern twist. Betty’s name came from old fashioned names are coming back around into fashion but Betty is the one name that hasn’t been used so much – Charlotte also has a best friend and Grandma named Betty. |
The first Betty Mag was started as a 2nd year university project, 5 or 6 years ago. Charlotte studied at UCA in Kent, on a fashion promotion course. In her final year she produced the first proper Betty magazine, it was 16 pages and cost £300 to print 5 copies – although it was never published.
The magazine started out as being completely self-indulgent but then more and more people started following Charlotte on social media and blogging sites and she realised that people had the same interests as she did. The content in Betty includes Betty Recommends and Bettys Wardrobe. Her inspiration came from Jackie magazine, Good House Keeping magazine and Nova Vintage Magazines.
A big turning point for Betty was appearing on Susie Bubbles website, Style Bubble! Charlotte was busy blogging for Betty and had a growing list of followers. She needed a stylist to help with shoots etc. and moved to Lincoln. She met her current business partner, Charlotte, over a social networking site and shared similar interests.
The magazine started out as being completely self-indulgent but then more and more people started following Charlotte on social media and blogging sites and she realised that people had the same interests as she did. The content in Betty includes Betty Recommends and Bettys Wardrobe. Her inspiration came from Jackie magazine, Good House Keeping magazine and Nova Vintage Magazines.
A big turning point for Betty was appearing on Susie Bubbles website, Style Bubble! Charlotte was busy blogging for Betty and had a growing list of followers. She needed a stylist to help with shoots etc. and moved to Lincoln. She met her current business partner, Charlotte, over a social networking site and shared similar interests.