Friday, May 3, 2019

ABOUT THE SITE

INCLUDED HERE ARE IMAGES OF MOVIE STARS, BATHING BEAUTIES, AND PIN-UPS OF THE 1920s. THE DATE IS A BIT DECEPTIVE SINCE MANY OF THE IMAGES - ESPECIALLY THE MACK SENNETT COMEDIES - DATE TO THE TEENS, AND I DO NOT HAVE ACCURATE DATING FOR MANY IMAGES.

THE LATE TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES ARE CLOSE ENOUGH IN SPIRIT TO BE INCLUDED TOGETHER. AS YOU MAY READILY SEE IN THE IMAGES, WOMEN OF THE ERA HAD A SPECIAL SENSE OF CHARM AND GRACE AND WHIMSY. FROM THE DRAMATIC LIGHTING AND STYLES AND MELODRAMATIC POSES OF FAMOUS MOVIE STARS TO THE CARE TAKEN IN POSING HANDS AND FEET OF THE PIN-UPS AND TO THEIR WHIMSICAL COSTUMES THERE IS A CAPTIVATING AND PLAYFUL, ALMOST ANTIC, SENSE OF STYLE.

HAIR STYLING DEPARTED DRAMATICALLY FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE CENTURY, AND EYE MAKE-UP PLAYED A SPECIAL ROLE IN THE MELODRAMATIC AND COMEDIC IMAGES. IN GENERAL, PIN-UPS OF THE TIME WERE POSITIVELY CHASTE BY LATER STANDARDS.

AMONG THE FACE TYPES WHICH WERE POPULAR, I NOTE PARTICULARLY THE RENOIR-TYPES - HARRIET HAMMOND, MARIE PREVOST, MARY THURMOND, AND PHYLLIS HAVER - WITH THEIR SWEET SMILES AND MANY WITH FULLER FACES THAN WE SEE IN TODAY'S ACTRESSES AND MODELS .
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I HAVE JUST ADDED A SELECTION OF FRENCH POSTCARDS OF THE SAME PERIOD.

HERE IS A SMALL SET OF THE LEGENDARY 1920s FRENCH POSTCARDS – SOME OF THE MOST ALLURING PHOTOS EVER TAKEN OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. THEY ARE NOT PORNOGRAPHIC BUT DEFINITELY EROTIC.

THEY ARE, IN GENERAL, FAR MORE DARING THAN THE MAINLY AMERICAN ARCADE CARD PHOTOS WHICH HAVE FEATURED ON THE SITE FROM THE BEGINNING.

1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - TINTED - YOUNG BARE-BREASTED WOMAN WITH CROPPED DARK REDDISH HAIR PAUSES FROM PICKING WILD FLOWERS - I THINK THERE IS A SPECIAL CHARM IN THIS IMAGE - PERHAPS IT'S HER NATURALNESS

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN IN A LIGHT BLUE NIGHTIE AND HEADBAND DANCING - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN IN A LIGHT BLUE NIGHTIE AND HEADBAND DANCING - TINTED SEIES - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN STANDING PROFILE IN SILKY AND SHEER WRAP - ONE HAND TO HER BOBBED HAIR AND THE OTHER HAND GRACEFULLY STRETCHED OUT - TINTED - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN STANDING PROFILE IN SILKY AND SHEER WRAP - ONE HAND TO HER BOBBED HAIR AND THE OTHER HAND GRACEFULLY STRETCHED OUT - TINTED - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN IN TWO-PIECE SMALL OUTFIT AND ELABORATE JEWEL HEADDRESS WEARING STRANDS OF PEARLS AND HOLDING TWO BIG FEATHERED FANS SITTING ON A CHAIR SMILING AT CAMERA - TINTED - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMEN IN TWO PIECE SMALL OUTFIT AND BIG FEATHERED HEADDRESS AND STRANDS OF PEARLS SITTING ON A CHAIR SMILING AT CAMERA - TINTED - 1920s

1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - WOMAN WITH A STRIKING THEATRICAL FACE SITTING PROFILE AND SMOKING - SHE HAS THE MOST GRACEFUL LONG LEGS BENEATH A BEAUTIFUL BRIEF SLIP AND ONE PERFECT BREAST EXPOSED BY A STRAP OFF HER SHOULDER - SHE WEARS STYLISH CRISS-CROSS STRAPPED SHOES - AN EROTIC MASTERPIECE

FRENCH POSTCARD 1920s - WOMAN SMOKING SITTING PROFILE WITH ONE PERFECT BREAST EXPOSED BY HER SLIP AND CRIS-CROSS STRAPPED SHOES - AN AMAZING FRENCH FACE - AN EROTIC MASTERPIECE

Sunday, November 4, 2018

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PIN UP - SWEET-FACED WOMAN IN NIGHTIE STANDING AND POWDERING HERSELF - TINTED - SOME COLOR OFF-REGISTER - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PIN UP - WOMAN IN NIGHTIE BUCKLING HER SHOE ON A SETTEE AND TURNED TO SMILE AT THE CAMERA - TINTED - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PIN UP - WOMAN IN NIGHTIE CARRYING A TALL CANDLESTICK IN FRONT OF HER - TINTED - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PIN UP - WOMAN IN SANTA-LIKE SHORTIE OUTFIT AND HAT AND BOOTS STANDING ON POST IN FRONT OF WATER SET - TINTED - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PHYLLIS HAVER IN RED AND WHITE CHRISTMASSY OUTFIT WITH OUTLANDISH SUN HAT STANDING ON POST WITH HANDS ON HIPS - TINTED - 1920s


Thursday, September 27, 2018

1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - WOMAN LIES BACK ON A SETTEE WITH STYLISHLY BOBBED HAIR - HER EYES ARE ALMOST CLOSED AND HER TRULY BEAUTIFUL FACE LOOKS DOWN TO OUR LEFT - SHE IS DRAPED WITH FILMY MATERIAL FROM HER HIPS DOWN - JUST A LOVELY SLENDERISH FIGURE AND THE PHOTO HAS SUCH A FEELING OF GRACE AND REPOSE

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1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - WOMAN WITH LONGISH HAIR LYING ON A BED PULLING OFF ONE OF HER BOOTS - WE'VE SEEN HER BEFORE DRINKING COFFEE SITTING UP IN A BED - HERE WE SEE HER LOVELY SLENDER FIGURE FEATURED AND HER BREASTS ARE PERFECTION

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1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - VERY PRETTY WOMAN WITH A BONNET OF THICK FRIZZY HAIR STANDS IN A NEGLIGEE LEANING WITH ONE ARM ON A HALF-TABLE AND THE OTHER HAND TUGGING AT THE BOTTOM OF HER GARMENT - SHE LOOKS TO OUR LEFT - HER LEGS ARE SIMPLY GRACEFUL BEYOND WORDS

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ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - RED-HAIRED WOMAN IN NIGHTIE SITTING ON A BED ADJUSTING HER STOCKING - EXCEPTIONALLY NATURALISTIC IMAGE FOR AMERICAN ARCADE CARDS - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

A ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - RED-HAIRED WOMAN IN NIGHTIE SITTING ON A BED ADJUSTING HER STOCKING - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN SITTING ON CUSHIONS WEARING ONLY A LARGE DARK SHEER VEIL WITH ONE HAND TO HER HEAD - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

A ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPY COMPANY - WOMAN SITTING ON CUSHIONS WEARING ONLY A LARGE DARK SHEER VEIL WITH ONE HAND TO HER HEAD - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN SITTING ON A STAND WITH LONG SHEER WRAP AND FEATHERED HAT - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

A ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN SITTING ON A STAND WITH LONG SHEER WRAP AND FEATHERED HAT - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN MARCHING PROFILE HOLDING UP A SMALL HEAD IN ONE HAND - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

A ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN MARCHING PROFILE HOLDING UP A SMALL HEAD IN ONE HAND - TINTED SERIES - 1920s

Sunday, September 23, 2018

ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN WITH HEADBAND AND TASSELS HOLDING SHEER WRAP AROUND HER AND COY LOOK TO OUR RIGHT - TINTED SERIES - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN SITTING SIDEWAYS ON HASSOCK POSED GRACEFULLY IN ODD ROMANESQUE COSTUME - TINTED SERIES - 1920s


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - WOMAN IN A LIGHT BLUE NIGHTIE AND HEADBAND DANCING - TINTED SERIES - TINTS A BIT OFF-REGISTER - 1920s


1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A MYSTERIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL FRENCH WOMAN WITH THE CLASSIC CROPPED HAIR LOOKING UP TO OUR RIGHT - SOME KIND OF FUR RESTS ON HER BACK SHOULDER AND HER BREASTS ARE STUNNINGLY PERFECT


Saturday, September 15, 2018

1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - WOMAN RECLINING ON A BED WITH HEAD TO WAIST SUPPORTED UP BY BOTH ARMS - THE POSE CREATES WONDERFUL CURVED LINES WITH HER DAZZLING FIGURE WHICH FACES US WHILE HER FACE LOOKS UP AND TO OUR RIGHT WITH A BEAUTIFUL SMILE - A PERFECT COMPOSITION WITH A PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN


1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A WOMAN LEANING SIDEWAYS INTO AN ANTIQUE CHAIR - HER HANDS ARE ENTWINED IN FRONT - LONGISH FRIZZY HAIR IS BACK-LIGHTED OVER A LOVELY FACE WITH AN UNWELCOME BIT OF SEVERITY IN HER EXPRESSION - HER GARMENT ALLOWS JUST THE TOP SLOPES OF HER BREASTS TO BE SEEN - A FINE COMPOSITION


1920s FRENCH POSTCARD - TINTED - TWO WOMEN ONE STANDING AND BENT OVER TOWARDS THE OTHER SITTING - BOTH WEARING SILKY PALE BLUE LINGERIE - THE ARTFUL POSES AND GENTLE LOOKS MAKE THIS AN ESPECIALLY APPEALING EXAMPLE OF A CARD FEATURING TWO WOMEN


ARCADE CARD - EXHIBIT SUPPLY COMPANY - PIN-UP - WOMAN STANDING WITH HANDS TO FACE WITH STRANDS OF VINE AROUND HER FIGURE - 1920s