Pinups in Action Can Draw Clients As Well As Patrons
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- 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
- Pinups in Action Can Draw Clients As Well As Patrons
- 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
- CheeseCake – An American Phenomenon
- The Florodora Girls & Other Musical Comedy pinup Stars
- Movie Vamps Have Been Pinups
Pinups throughout history have been used to sell everything from cosmetics to real estate. Sometimes, they had their origins in the scandalous worlds of peepshows and erotica.
The scandalous Gilda Grey, famous for popularizing The Shimmy with her signature song The Shimmy Shewabble, helped sell a reducing cream in 1923. In 1925 she did the shimmy after a meeting to interest buyers in buying Coral Gables properties in Florida.
The Shimmy, for which Gilda Grey was famous for, reportedly could be danced properly only with great difficulty and was considered primarily an exhibition dance. Similarly, the Cat Dance by Lilly Christine, had its origins in the realms of peepshows, but she crossed over into mainstream pinup model popularity and helped sell products.
Below are pictures of Gilda Grey (in one week her performance of the Shimmy grossed $45,000), and Lilly Christine:
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