
CheeseCake – An American Phenomenon

- The Production Code and Continued Evolution of Cheesecake Pinup
- How Politics shaped womens fashions in the early 20th century
- Women’s Fashion Trends in the first half of the 20th Century changed drastically
- How World War I and World War II influenced womens fashions
- Lucille Ball and Marie Wilson were Successful Pinups on TV
- To Man, Woman is Basically Funny – history of pinups in humor
- Marilyn Monroe’s appearance on the Jack Benny Show, and Ed Sullivan’s Toastettes
- How the term cheesecake pinup originated
- The future of the pinup model
- History of Women’s Swimwear and Sports Fashions
- History of Beauty Contests and the Ideal Female Measurements of the 1950s
- A brief history of women in sports, part II
- CheeseCake – An American Phenomenon
- History of the Covergirl pinup model
- The evolution of chorus girls and showing skin on stage
- A brief history of Women in Sports
- Pretty Girls Sold Tobacco – tobacco advertisements used pinups
- Dancing, Singing, NightClubs, and 1950s Stripper Stars
- Pinups on billboards, book covers, and record covers.
- History of Lingerie advertisements from the 1800s to the 1950s
- How to sell shirts and bed sheets with Cheesecake Pinups
- Corset and shapewear advertising history
- The Florodora Girls & Other Musical Comedy pinup Stars
- Movie Vamps Have Been Pinups
- Pinup Gals of World War I and World War II: Mary Pickford and Betty Grable
“CheeseCake – An American Phenomenon. A Pictorial report on the impact of the female form from September Morn to Marilyn Monroe”
This was the most amazing 1950s magazine to photograph and digitally preserve! Is this Marilyn Monroe on the cover? I asked if I could take a few extra product shots, off the clock. I wish I could have bought this vintage pinup magazine for myself! It’s dated 1953. It was basically a pinup history magazine, written during what many people now consider the height of “cheesecake pinup”, a history of the origins of pinup that include influences of feminism, burlesque, World War I, World War II, and everything else.
The Table of Contents is titillating and includes:
- The Cake that Needs No Frosting
- To Man, Woman is Basically Funny
- Stereos Started Film Cheesecake
- The Bust Line May Be Best Line in TV
- Politicians reshaped the female form
- Women in Uniform from 1781 to 1954
- The “Pinup Girls” and how they grew
- Cheesecake, the super saleswoman
- The female form at play
- On Campus
- Contests Make Beauty Big Business
- The cover girl: old device revamped
- Each day a press agent crowns a queen
- Shapes of things to come: 10,000 models
- The basic ingredients of cheesecake
- Cheesecake spoils with overexposure
Here is the cover, inside cover, and table of contents.
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