Risqué Nose Art from WW2 Bombers (NSWF)

Nose art on airplanes first became popular during WW1 when German airmen (or rather their ground-crews) started painting a mouth

Happy Vintage New Year!

What better way to start off the new year by seeing how they celebrated in years gone by! These are

The First Ever Miss Universe Contest, 1952

It was the lovely Armi Kuusela from Finland who won the first ever Miss Universe contest in 1952*, with Miss

Pin Up Girls: A Brief History

Pin up girls have been around for a lot longer than you think. Since as early as the 1890s girls

Pin Up Pioneers: Miss Fernande (NSFW)

Miss Fernande was arguably the very first photographic pin up star. Born during the 1890s in Paris, the lovely Fernande

Saucy Portraits of 1920s Showgirls (NSFW)

Alfred Cheney Johnston is most well-known for his photographs of the girls who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in the

Gallery: Beauty Queens of the 1920s

Whatever your personal feelings about beauty pageants, they serve as a great reminder that fashion dictates what each generation considers

15 Real-Life World War 2 Pin Up Girls

During World War 2, the American Magazine for GI’s (called YANK would you believe?) featured a number of fabulous pin-ups

Vintage Style Icons: Adrian – MGM’s Costume Designer Extraordinaire

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, better known as just ‘Adrian’ was one of the most amazing costume designers ever seen in Hollywood.

Top 10 Leading Men of the 1940s

There were some great movie actors around in the 1940s, it truly was the golden age of cinema! Here are

16 Stunning Photos of 1920s Ziegfeld Girls

Ziegfeld girls were the cheesecake pinups of the 1920s. Beautiful and talented they were the chorus girls of the spectacular

Quotes: Bettie Page on Fashion

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me – Bettie

Ziegfeld Follies girl Doris Eaton Travis

Ziegfeld Follies girl Doris Eaton Travis photographed somewhere around 1918-1920. I love the fancy top she’s wearing – I wonder

Ziegfeld Follies Girl: Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice – c. 1915-1925 – Ziegfeld girl photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston.

Doris Eaton Travis

Ziegfeld Follies girl Doris Eaton Travis (1904-2010) in her youth (somewhere around 1922).

Fanny Brice pin up photo c.1915

Famous singer and actress Fanny Brice from the time she was a Ziegfeld Follies girl, c. 1915

Ziegfeld Girl in a Peacock Plume Dress

Kathleen Rose, aka “Rose Dolores”, a Ziegfeld Girl in peacock plume dress. c.1917-1923 Isn’t this the most wonderful costume? I’d love

Marion Davies, a self-described “silly, giggly idiot”

Marion Davies, Ziegfeld girl, Hollywood actress, self-described “silly, giggly idiot” and mistress to William Randolph Hearst, half length, seated, facing