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Modern Girls Go Retro-Wild For the Pin-Up Era

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The term pin-up automatically brings to mind sexy women and vintage 50’s style clothing. The whole riot started in the early 19th century with mass produced images. Until just before the 1940’s, men kept their naughty postcards in a drawer. When WWII came along, the soldiers packed along their favorites and stuck them on the wall, or in their locker. They were especially popular when painted on the nose of practically every plane in the air.

Pin-up images flirty, not explicit

By the Leave it to Beaver 50’s pin-up images “were often of fashion models and actors posing semi-nude, or in revealing clothing and flirty, but not explicit poses.” Some were photos and some were painted but they all sold like hotcakes.

Back in the day, just like now, even a whiff of sex is a huge marketing device. Today’s modern women aren’t oppressed housewives, but they seem to really get into dressing up like one.

One model, Angela Fernot, who sells pin-up pictures featuring her own image, laughs when she relates how often men tell her they’ll be back for one. After they go ask their wife if it’s okay. She usually says yes.

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There’s almost an unlimited supply of websites, brands, and movements around the evergreen culture. The whole perception is evolving.

Today’s modern calendar girl “is not a helpless house wife. She is a cutely dressed, occasionally tattooed, badass.” Finding costumes is incredibly easy.

Everyone from Amazon to Etsy are selling “vintage dresses and newly made ones that mimic the vintage styles.” Unsurprisingly, there’s a Pinterest board with “several thousand pins” of women dressed in regulation styles. Along with “articles on how to dress vintage, and ads for pin-up wigs and shoes.

Market your own images

The pin-up models of today aren’t the mute, anonymous “objects” for manipulation they once were. “They have their own identities, websites and businesses based on how they choose to represent their female form.

Today’s man cave is more likely to have Lara Croft or Gina Carano hanging on the wall. Today’s “dream girl” needs to be “smart and tough and resourceful.

The models usually have their own body issues to deal with but manage to tame the butterflies when they see the paychecks. “So, there I was for my first pin-up,” the veteran relates in an article at Geekade.

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Greg had drawn a snow bunny in a tiny bikini with a pair of skis thrown over her shoulder and a sexy car in the background. We had discussed the concept, and I told Greg I had actually snowboarded on a mountain in my bikini once with my siblings. My mom even has a picture.

I love being a model.” Angela Fernot admits. “I love seeing a man pick up a metal sign or a calendar that has my picture on it, hold it up to compare it to me.

Every time I catch someone doing it I call them out on it, and every time I do that the viewer says he believes what he sees.” All in a day’s work for today’s pin-up girls.

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Written by Mark Megahan

Mark Megahan is a resident of Morristown, Arizona and aficionado of the finer things in life.

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