Worker-Dandyist.
Talent(lessness) behind Proletkult Graphik.
Listener of boss sounds from swing to garage to punk to folk to Northern.
Bad, bad Lindy hopper.
Proudly proletarian Red.
Lover of the nylon-clad and high-heeled female leg.
Hater of almost everything but especially averse to fashion (as opposed to style), post-modernist nonsense, the destruction of language, laminate flooring and wankers who leave dogshit everywhere.
(I will also moan periodically about the state of modern day trousers and the idiots who wear them.)
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Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen
I chatted the guys up after the show and asked them if I could do their portrait the next day, they agreed so I got...
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Clairvoyant Liz (by paul.malon)
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Babe!
Mark Shaw limited edition photograph. Captured here are “Mistress and Maid” in a hotel room. This is an experimental outtake from a shoot Shaw shot for the Vanity Fair lingerie company in 1957.
Source: 1stDibs
Kestos Brassieres ad from Vogue, June 1949.
Kestos lingerie advertisement
Twilfit girdles ad from Vogue, September 1949.
Sheer Devilry from Esquire, July 1954.
Harem Jamas.
My invention relates to new and useful improvements to brassieres by the incorporation therein of an electrically operated dilator. It is well known that a bust appearance of a woman may be enhanced by increasing the circulation of blood in the breast areas, said increase in circulation promoting enlargement or dilation and firmness of the breast. Due to the massaging effect the device is also a muscle stimulating corrective for sagging of breasts, a condition encountered often during and after middle age. Furthermore, the massaging effect relieves tension and fatigue. I obtain these results by providing pouches in conventional brassiere pockets within which are inserted thin metal or composition cups to which are in turn connected electrical vibrator devices. The principal object and essence of my invention is, therefore, to provide electrical vibrator devices which increase the circulation of blood in the breast areas and promote enlargement or dilation and firmness of the breast. A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character herewithin described which provides a gentle massaging effect thereby relieving tension and fatigue…
William R. Jones
Mains Powered Breast Vibrator patented in May 1962.
Source: Google Patents
A nice chest in all circumstances!
Even though the road is bad…it performs well!
Detail from an ad for Lou brassieres. From Modes et Travaux, June, 1956.
Adjustable girdle patent from 1926.
Source: Google Patents
I do appreciate a nice rolled stocking.
Source: Dottie’s Delights
Source: Google Patents
Lingerie pictogram by Proletkult Graphik. Available from the Noun Project in SVG format.
From La Femme Chez Elle (catalogue of Bon Marche department store), 1955.
via Vintage Scans
