“Women, Gags & Giggles,” ran writer Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Males cherished his tasty dishes, a mix of strippers and starlets wearing outfits so fetishistic nobody observed they had been by no means nude. Whereas different magazines delivered the lady subsequent door, Harrison’s publications banked on unhealthy women in satin and leather-based, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage.
Harrison lured his readers in with vibrantly painted covers by prime pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss and, most famously, Peter Driben. This Bibliotheca Universalis version celebrates this eye-catching sweet with each single cowl from Magnificence Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955, in addition to inside spreads, that includes, amongst others, a budding Bettie Web page. In an age when way more graphic materials is the norm, 1000 Pin-Up Women celebrates an period of pin-up and pulp model to gasoline your erotic creativeness.
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