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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

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

Jayne Mansfield was an iconic bombshell of the 50s and 60s and was known as the ‘Working Man’s Monroe‘. She

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

Beautifully dressed pin-up girls waiting to be asked to dance at the NAS Seattle Spring Formal Dance in 1944. Who

Marilyn Monroe’s measurements There’s a lot of discussion about whether Marilyn Monroe really was a size 16, and whether that

1950s glamour girl and pin up Betty Brosmer who had the amazing hourglass figure of: 38-18-36 (inches). Her she has the

Pin up photo of Sherry Britton wearing a fabulous bikini dress from the December 1945 issue of Yank, the Army

This photo of Betty Grable from 1943 was the most popular pin up photo for American GIs during WWII. You

Norma Jean Dougherty (who later became Marilyn Monroe) photographed for US Army magazine YANK on June 26 1945. There’s no

During World War 2 all of the big Hollywood stars posed for pin up photos to raise the morale of

Pin up girls or cheesecake models have been popular since the early 20th century – here are my pick of

The wonderful ‘Queen of Pinups’ Bettie Page who died on this day in 2008.

These are my 10 favourite pin up dresses! Whether you wear Rockabilly-style with tatoos and lots of attitude or cute

I saw a newspaper article yesterday about student and part-time Burlesque dancer Nerina Orton and her tiny 15.7″ waist and

The wonderful fifties pin up girl Betty Brosmer with her 18″ waist – wow!

I’ve often marvelled at the different body shapes which have been in fashion over the decades: from the skinny boyish

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