The Gibson Girl managed to progress with the times. Her hem became shorter as well as did her collar. While Gibson was the first to use her image, and hence the name, the Gibson Girl was soon drawn by many illustrators and used for product promotion. The Gibson Girl sold everything because everyone wanted her in their home.

The most important thing about the Gibson Girl as it relates to her role in the pinup industry is what she stood for. The Gibson girl was the perfect woman of her time. She had beauty, she was demure, she had limited independence, and she was there to perform her duties. But all the while, she was worshipped for these reasons. If only she were a real, live woman!

Illustrators continued to use images of the Gibson girl through several decades. However, she moved through the changing times with grace and ease. One of the illustrators of the Wonder Woman comic book modeled his illustrations after the Gibson Girl. What a tribute!

Eventually, the Gibson Girl’s image was portrayed using real women. These women still personified every quality of the Gibson Girl, but she was given life! Rather than looking at an inked drawing, the pinup girl looked as if she were looking right back at you. This is when pinups truly evolved into the pinup girls we see today.

There is no denying that the Gibson Girl portrayed everything that was expected of the “perfect” woman. While nobody can be considered perfect, her image tried to dissuade this. She was perfect and she was worthy of the adoration of men and women alike. While the pinup girls of later days started showing a lot more skin, the standard remained the same. She will always be the fantasy that makes us believe that the perfect woman exists. And once she did exist, drawn in ink, and she was the Gibson Girl!

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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 perfect woman! These pin-ups graced the lockers of high school boys, calendars, and the American soldiers of World War II’s bunk rooms. Far from home, the G.I.’s treasured pin-up girl posters; they gave the soldiers something beautiful and sexy to see instead of their all-male comrades, not to mention the misery and graphic violence of war. Army Air Corps pilots, who risked their lives every day, developed “nose art” that was beautifully painted upon the outside cockpit of their fighter, bomber or cargo airlift planes. In addition to stunning depictions of fierce, snarling animals like tigers, eagles and sharks, pin-up girls frequently graced the noses of U.S. aircraft. And in 1941, test pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in a jet he decorated with a gorgeous pin-up of his wife, naming the plane “Glamorous Glynnis.”

In 1947, the Army Air Corps officially became the United States Air Force. Nose art, especially that of vintage pin-up girls, continued to grace the outside cock pits of the best and fastest aircraft in the world. But times change, as does “political correctness.” Thirty years later, in the beginnings of awareness of the sexual harassment and exploitation of women, nose art was officially banned by the USAF, and this pin-up art vanished forever. It’s only seen now in museums depicting the lives of servicemen in ages gone by.

Several sources cite the top three pin-up girls as Betty Grable posing provocatively in a one-piece bathing suit, Marilyn Monroe’s revealing skirt “blow up” from The Seven Year Itch, and Farrah Fawcett as she appeared in TV’s “Charlie’s Angels.” But it doesn’t end with the beautiful and sensual pin-up girls; the past decade has given us pin-up men as well! Handsome heartthrobs Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Fabio adorn the walls of many a teenage girl’s bedroom. Also popular in modern pin-up art are rock singers Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Steven Tyler, and the enormously popular cross-over group, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Pin-up art reached its heyday during World War II, and art experts say that it will never quite be the same again. During this time, every female star in Hollywood had aspirations of becoming a popular pin-up art subject; this was part of their formula to successful movie careers. Today you can find vintage pin-ups on the Internet that are of fine quality and evoke memories of days long gone.

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The US manufactured an emergency transmitter type AN/CRT3. It was quickly nicknamed the ‘Gibson Girl’. Based on a German design, it was basically a box with a crank on top to run a generator. Pretty clever idea- you never have to worry about dead batteries. Speaking of clever, the Americans and the British had a few tricks up their sleeves on how to get an antenna up in the air as well. You had your basic box kite- or even rockets to get the kite up there. If that didn’t work, there were balloons included- which when coupled with a kit mixed with seawater lifted the antenna skyward. So back to the transmitter itself. Since you had to hold it between your legs to crank it up, it has an hour glass figure of its own, hence the nickname and it’s association with pinup. You can read the full story about the radio here, and a little on Gibson Girls here.