The Gibson Girl was created by a man named Charles Dana Gibson. She was the epitome of the perfect woman in the early 1900’s. It was easy to tell that she was tall and slender with ample curves in all the right places, yet she still dressed demurely which is a representation of the time [...]

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Theda Bara. Dorothy Lamour. Betty Grable. Jean Harlow. Vivien Leigh. Greta Garbo. Elizabeth Taylor. Jayne Mansfield. Twiggy. Farrah Fawcett. And, of course, the magnificent Marilyn Monroe.
They came from different eras, from 1910 until the 1960’s. They were beautiful, alluring, and represented the “ultimate woman.” Pin-up girls were posters that represented every man’s dream of the [...]

Her curvy figured graced more than one bomber nose in World War II. Pinup girl Aline Osborn sometimes received over 100 letters a day asking for a date from servicemen during the war, when she entertained the troops. She was recognized for her role in the Valentines for Veterans campaign, when State Rep. [...]

The pinup girl has always been good for the morale of the troops. Whether they were on the nose of the aircraft, or even a picture in a helmet, the pin-up always brought thoughts of home and hearth to cheer our weary soldiers. A modern day pinup girl is doing her part for [...]

Louis Meulstee has a fascinating article on the Gibson Girl Rescue Radio transmitters from World War II. So what’s pinup have to do with an air/sea rescue radio? First a little background. Charles Gibson created an era’s idea of the perfect woman- the “Gibson Girl” in the late nineteen and early twentieth [...]

Sport Truck has a little old fashioned cheesecake with a photo shoot that harkens back to the glory days of pin-up. One of the models, Dayna DeLux has the classic smoldering pin-up look, her website, with some nice photos, is here.

Female bodyguard Anna Loginova died during a carjacking where she was apparently dragged by the vehicle. She was known as Russia’s “Pin-up” bodyguard, and had done some semi-nude modeling before starting her own all female bodyguard business. Apparently this was not her first car jacking, the Daily News tells of her foiling an [...]

Citypaperonline has a story on the revival of pin-up. It seems a number of modern women are trading modern lingerie for the smoldering looks of pin-up, and taking pictures not unlike what their grandfathers admired during WWII. More power to them- sexy isn’t always about being completely bare.