Norman Parkinson :: Wenda Parkinson and Ostriches, South Africa, for Vogue UK, 1951
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Reard Fashion Show, 1946. Bikini briefs in the forties were huge (literally) and always teamed with an on-point structured top. Here models perfect their catwalk struts at the Reard show by the pool. / src: marie claire uk
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John Rawlings :: Model with Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space, 1944
Charles Sheldon :: Vintage photograph featuring a model posed in profile to best show off her hat which dips dramatically over one eye and sports a jaunty feather plume on top. Taken by American illustrator and amateur photographer Charles Sheldon,
ca. 1920s. This jazz age still was likely taken as an aid to the creation of a pastel work for an advertisement or women’s magazine fashion plate. / via
gmgallery / original source of image and text: Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay
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Chili Williams, born Marian Sorenson, wearing a polka-dot bikini appeared in Life magazine, 1943. Over the next few months she received more than 350,000 fan letters. She quickly became one of the soldiers favorite pin-up girls and was nicknamed ‘The Polka-Dot Girl’. / image and text source: Grapefruit Moon on eBay
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