The future of the pinup model
- 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
- 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
- The future of the 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
- Pinup Gals of World War I and World War II: Mary Pickford and Betty Grable
This is one of the most interesting scans from Cheesecake – An American Phenomenon. Where was pinup modeling going in the 1950s, and what would future fashion trends hold? The main point of this article seemed to point out the sheer diversity of pinup models and beautiful women. An interesting picture was one of Rita Hayworth without makeup, and then made up. One of her movies, “An Affair in Trinidad”, was chosen by the National Photographers Association as “the sexiest and most provocative motion picture still ever made”.
Pat Parker was the very rare model who could do both pin up and fashion, with measurements of 34-22-34.
Pinup models were paid 15-25 an hour in 1954, and could make up to $75 in an afternoon.
“The fashion model is merely window dressing for the clothes and must not intrude. The pin up, on the other hand, must intrude all around.”
These last pictures include:
- Bernard Bernard, a top cheesecake photographer, using clothes pins to accentuate the form of his model
- June McCall on the beach
- Laurette Luez on leopard skin
- Rita Hayworth – with out makeup, and with makeup, and posed for the movie “An Affair in Trinidad”
- an implied nude woman behind a typewriter, to signify that tease and leaving some parts covered is much more sexy than blatant nudity
- photo credits
- male comment upon the female, including Elsie Richmond in the 1900s, Patricia Hardley in the 1950s
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