Man About Town (magazine)

Man About Town
The innocent cover of Man About Town, summer 1956, featuring the magazine's mutton chops personification.
CategoriesMen's lifestyle
FrequencyQuarterly then monthly
Founded1952
Final issue1968
CompanyCornmarket
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Man About Town, later About Town and lastly Town, was a British men's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. Press Gazette described it in 2004 as the "progenitor of all today's men's style magazines".[1] It was the customer offshoot of the well-established weekly trade magazine for tailors, The Tailor & Cutter.

  1. ^ "John Taylor: editor of The Tailor & Cutter, columnist and publisher". Press Gazette. 14 January 2004. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2014.