Wow. What a cool series of pinup and burlesque star history!
I’m not sure if there’s much of a point to the words in these pages, but the pictures show the history of fashion and burlesque with pictures including:
- an 1800s cartoon imagining how people would dance if women were emancipated (in their underwear)
- Arthur Murray
- Fred and Adele Astaire
- Sophie Tucker
- Helen Morgan
- Texas Guinan
- Sally Rand doing the fan fance
- Lena Horne
- Joanne Gilbert
- Dardy Orlando (sister of Lili St. Cyr) standing in front of Minksy’s Rialto
- Burlesque Queens Ann Corio, Georgia Southern, and Margie Hart
- a series of pictures of Sylvia McKaye seductively stripping from a show girl outfit to just a g string
- Jenny Lind
- opera singer Mary Garden
- Rise Stevens
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