
Dancing, Singing, NightClubs, and 1950s Stripper Stars

- 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
- Dancing, Singing, NightClubs, and 1950s Stripper Stars
- 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
- 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
- CheeseCake – An American Phenomenon
- 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
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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