The History of the Pin-Up Girl - Glamour Illustrators and Their Girls
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The combination of the female body and lingerie has both fascinated excited men and women for centuries. Yet, when I glance at the selection of the top shelf publications in newsagents throughout the world, I'm always astounded at how this beautiful combination has been reduced to a vulgar version of the original pin-up girl. So, for those of you who don't know them, here's a brief history of the first illustrated pin-up girls printed throughout the United States and Europe as of the end of the 19th century...
The Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl was the brainchild of Charles Dana Gibson (1967-1944) and is credited with being the world's first pin-up. These pen-and-ink drawings represented independent, mischievous and adventurous Victorian women with feminine s-shaped silhouettes and hair piled high on their heads. The Gibson Girl had a huge influence on fashion and her tiny corseted waist, large hips and bust were inspired by the less restrictive health corsets worn by women of the fashionable upper-middle-classes. She was equal to a modern day celebrity and appeared in publications such as Harper's Monthly, Bazaar and Life until around 1910.
The Christy Girl
Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) began his career as a war artist. Thanks to his preference for drawing pretty girls rather than men at war, the Christy Girl was similar to the Gibson Girl and featured on calendars, book illustrations and magazine covers. She was the prototype for the ideal American woman. Christy is most famous for his World War One poster Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man (1917) that depicts a spirited Christy Girl wearing navy blues.
The Fisher Girl
Harrison Fisher was another illustrator with a great eye for painting beautiful women in watercolour and pastel drawings on the covers of Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan. Elegant, athletic and independent, the Fisher Girl was the epitome of American feminine beauty at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Flagg Girls
Bohemian, cocky and outspoken, James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) is most famous for his wartime Uncle Sam poster I WANT YOU. His oeuvre is made up of paintings and caricatures of beautiful American women. With symmetrical faces and full lips, the Flagg Girls were tall and wide shouldered beauties. Illustrator Flagg was the greatest U.S. artist of his time, according to Time Magazine.
The Elvgren Girls
One of the most important glamour and pin-up artists of the 20th century, Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) created technicolor pin-up girls with infectious smiles throughout World War II. With long legs, beautiful hair, tiny waists and impossible busts, Elvgren created hundreds of all-American glamour girls throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Elegant, naughty and fun, his girls wore garters, sneaky suspenders and silk stockings and included roller-skaters, swimmers and hitchhikers.
Lankani Ladi Ne Ghoghano Var
'Lankani Ladi Ne Ghoghano Var' is a story about Lankapati Raja Ravan, who has been blessed with power by Lord Bholenath. This power has made Lankapti Raja Ravan arrogant and after watching this Lord Bholenath sends Rishi Muni to make him alert about his arrogance. Rishi Muni teaches him a lesson, by saying that he has everything to be happy in life, but there is one thing that he is not lucky about ie 'Kanyadaan'. Listening to this Raja Ravan prays to Lord Bholenath of having a girl child and he blesses him with a girl child. Raja Ravan's pride has augmented now after the birth of his girl child named Tara and asks Maa Vidhatri about his daughter's fate, but after watching his pride Maa Vidhatri curses Raja Ravan that his daughter will marry a 'Shudra Putra'. During the feast, where Raja Ravan treats all the Brahmins he finds a Shudra Putra, Bhima sitting among the Brahmins and gets livid and asks the senapati's to kill him. But Bhima is saved and is destined to live as Kumar Bhima, son of Maharaj Vijay Singh. Tara requests her father to let her go for a Yatra and there she has been attacked by the dacoits, this is when Kumar Bhima reaches to save her. But Tara and Kumar Bhima are seized by the dacoits. According to the dacoits rituals they get the two married before killing them. Is the curse given to Raja Ravan come true? Will Raja Ravan agree to this marriage?
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Orignal From: Lankani Ladi Ne Ghoghano Var
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