How the term cheesecake pinup originated
- 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
- 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
- History of the Covergirl pinup model
- How the term cheesecake pinup originated
- 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
- 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
How did the term “cheesecake” pinup originate? According to this 1950s magazine: “... A New York news photographer once asked a woman to lift her skirt ever so slightly to make a better picture. The beautiful woman complied. When the editor, something of a gourmet, saw the picture on his desk, he exclaimed ‘Why, this is better than cheesecake!'”
The photograph that this captions, is claimed to be the first “cheesecake” photo published in the American press, by photographer George Miller, and shot in 1915 of Elvira Amazar, “a Russian Diva”.
Thus begins this first article about the American Pinup, starting with a history of the origins of pinup… on the last page of this series of scans is an illustration of a beautiful woman in the 1820s, used in a shop sign.
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