The evolution of chorus girls and showing skin on stage
- 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
- The evolution of chorus girls and showing skin on stage
- History of the Covergirl pinup model
- 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
These next few pages of old pictures are a history of strippers and chorus girls and showing skin on stage, from Can Can girls, to to Mae West, to the Zigfield Follies, and the Rockettes.
This article claims that Adah Isaacs Menken was the first woman to get nude on a legitimate stage; eventhough it was implied and she was really clothed in flesh colored silk as she rode across the stage, strapped to a stallion, in Byron’s Mazeppa.
Lydia Thompson led the British Blondes in the later 1860s, which was full of many “firsts”: tights meant only for better display, burlesque queens, and bleached blonde hair.
Pictured on this page: Lydia Thompson in Robinson Crusoe, May Howard, and Mable Santley.
Anna Held, wife of the famous Florenze Zigfield (of Zigfield Follies) supposedly had a rib removed to bring her waist to a tiny 11 inches.
Mae West was scandalous, and starred and directed in an act in 1927 called “Sex”, which was so bold and sensual that it got her arrested.
The following last two pages are spread of chorus girls in the first part of the 20th century: from the 1917 Zigfield Follies, Earl Carrol’s Vanities (1923), and the “modern” Rockettes.
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