Women on Pin-ups

Art, right from the 1960’s started to re-emerge as the era of the visual aesthetics. Not that Toulouse and Van Eyck didn’t do their job but the once-preferred plump white women wearing pearls and feathers stroking their cats purring on velvet cots were no longer preferred. While some used it in the form of devious double-meaning propaganda, others were downright sexually straightforward. It may well have been called the kernel of sensuously influential commercial that turned golden at the hands of all those workers, bachelors and sneaky husbands. This is where it all started.

No more were women on posters with babies in their arms during the WWI to encourage young boys to fight for their family, their country or in the industrial revolution with tools raised with honor to show that they too had a place in factories. Women became teenagers once again, kicking off their heels, letting down their beautiful brunette locks with a bright beaming smile and a flirtatious expression. The wind blowing much of the polka dotted skirt right where all attention was caught frozen.

Models became pin-up girls, skirts became shorter and physical features were overly emphasized. Red lips and sensuous eyes called out to every boy and man towards them. Monet and Monroe were both extraordinarily brilliant artists but the era with the latter was the era that defined a women with how much she attracted the opposite sex.

They were everywhere! On calendars, stickers, posters, advertisements, cereal boxes, matchboxes, wrapping paper, wallpapers and whatever else was manufactured at the time.

Of course it all still continues but thankfully there are now other occupations, departments, enterprises, offices that have women as CEO’s, head chefs, directors, owners, entrepreneurs. Thankfully.