Pin Up Clothing Makes a Comeback!
Retro pin ups featuring sultry but innocent girls are experiencing a surge in popularity. It’s little surprise, then, that pin up clothing, too, has become a trendy buy. Pin up clothing, as the name suggests, allows fans of pin up culture to dress like their favorite glamor girls from the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s. Women today can find retro bikinis, evening dresses, swimwear and separates, all of which would look perfectly at home on Bettie Page or any of the Petty Girls.
These pin up clothes, though, aren’t costumes. They are actual dresses and swim suits, designed to be worn to elegant dinner parties or at the local beach. Because of this, pin up clothing is often subtle in its charms. The best pin up clothing is sexy but fun, just like the original pin up girls. It’s little wonder, then, that retro pin up clothing appeals to the hippest and trendiest of buyers. The best pin up clothing is also designed to fit women of any size or shape. You don’t have to be model thin to enjoy pin up clothing. In fact, retro pin up clothing often looks best on women with real curves. Remember, the Petty Girls and the models of pin up artist Alberto Vargas where not skinny little waifs.
Finding retro pin up clothing is no longer a difficult task. Recognizing a hot trend, a growing number of retailers are stocking their shelves with pin up clothing. The best place to begin your search for pin up clothing is online. Simply do an online search and you’ll uncover a seemingly endless list of Internet-based retailers offering the latest in pin up clothing fashions You might also check the online auction house eBay for vintage pin up clothing. You might be surprised both at how much of this type of fashion eBay offers and by how many fellow shoppers are bidding up the prices of retro pin up dresses and separates.
It’s little wonder that retro pin up clothing has become so popular. The retro bikinis, dresses and outfits are visually appealing. They’re fun, too. And depending on how willing shoppers are to search for bargains, vintage pin up clothing can be relatively inexpensive, too. If you’re interested in tapping into your inner Gibson Girl, it’s time to find that perfect retro pin up dress. When you hit the town in this trendiest of fashions, you’ll find that all eyes – not to mention smiles – are on you.
Would you like to learn more about how dress like the pinup girls? Stop by Pinup Ferret, Martin has a number of articles on pinup, and see the original pin up clothing.
Vintage and Retro Bowling Shirts
Popular in America since at least the 1950′s, vintage and retro bowling shirts are currently most associated with the character Charlie Harper on the television show Two and a Half Men. They are considered to be “dressy” casual wear, suitable for most events that don’t require a tie and they still work in the bowling alley as well.
Bright Red Pin Up Platform Shoes for Spring
I had a birthday and received some pin-up platform shoes! They look all innocent, from this angle.
Until you turn them around. And ka-pow! Check out the height of these babies. Luckily they are platforms, which make them so much easier to walk in.
And less we not forget the sweet curvy sides! What’s the old saying: ‘What are 3 things, in your closet you can wear these with?’
I’m planning on pairing these with a black and white tunic–this cute,vintage-inspired tunic, is from Forever 21 [borrowed from my daughter's closet].
And maybe the floral slip dress, which is really just a 1980′s silk slip, perfect for Spring 2010.
Anything black and maybe some pearls too. I love how the scallop of the this vintage black dress echoes the shoes…..oh the list goes on. I can take these pin-up heels anywhere.
Bright Red Pin Up Platform Shoes for Spring
I had a birthday and received some pin-up platform shoes! They look all innocent, from this angle.
Until you turn them around. And ka-pow! Check out the height of these babies. Luckily they are platforms, which make them so much easier to walk in.
And less we not forget the sweet curvy sides! What’s the old saying: ‘What are 3 things, in your closet you can wear these with?’
I’m planning on pairing these with a black and white tunic–this cute,vintage-inspired tunic, is from Forever 21 [borrowed from my daughter's closet].
And maybe the floral slip dress, which is really just a 1980′s silk slip, perfect for Spring 2010.
Anything black and maybe some pearls too. I love how the scallop of the this vintage black dress echoes the shoes…..oh the list goes on. I can take these pin-up heels anywhere.
Retro Pinup Girls
The desire for pin-up girls really came into it’s own with the development of the movie industry. Audiences flocked to see their favorite stars in their latest movie, and then sought to have their pictures on their bedroom walls or in magazines.
Soon fans were clamouring for photos of their favourite movie or theatre stars, and so an industry of glamorous photos to cheer people up in what was an era of drabness and war began.
Katherine Hepburn, Betty Grable, Maureen O’Hara to name but a few were made more famous by their photos being used on calendars, stuck on schoolboy lockers and in army barracks.
There were man’s ideal of the “perfect woman” and the movie studios invented fictitious life stories around them to make them even more appealing.
Retro Pin-up girls represented everything an average woman in the street aspired to and reflected a glamorous side of life that was sadly missing in the forties and fifties.
In the thirties such stars as Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo and Dorothy Lamour had graced our screens and given us all an outlet outside our ordinary lives. As it was gradually realised by the movie moguls that there was a great thirst for glamour pin-ups so the industry began to grow.
Central to all of this of course was the glamour photographer. Gradually these photographers became almost as famous as the models themselves, and by developing new ideas about how to capture the best images possible, the pin-ups became more and more sophisticated.
The pin-up photo of Jane Russell in the film “The Outlaw” however caused a lot of controversy and was considered at the time to be extremely provocative and daring. How times have changed!
The servicemen’s lives during World War II were relieved by their pin-up photos which were plastered over the walls and lockers in their barracks. “Nose art” painted on the cockpit of planes became the norm and helped the men to face the horrors of the war and brought some normality to what was a terrible time in their lives.
The pin-up photographs became a tool in the advertising and music industry. It was soon realised that a glamorous woman’s photo could sell products such as washing machines, cars etc. So another industry was born.
The music industry used pin-up photos of the artists themselves to promote their new albums and so it was not just the movie stars that were being sought after.
Newspapers started to appreciate the selling power of the pin-up and began using more and more glamorous pin-up photos in their papers and magazines.
Agents for actresses and singers recognised an opportunity for free publicity and started to supply newspapers and magazines with photos of their clients for publication.
The fashion industry itself started to use glamorous stars to promote their designs and shows and so the pin-up girls became more and more in demand. What had started out as a trip to the theatre or cinema for relaxation and a time away from the day to day drudgery of everyday life became a huge and successful industry within itself.
Retro Pinup Girls
The desire for pin-up girls really came into it’s own with the development of the movie industry. Audiences flocked to see their favorite stars in their latest movie, and then sought to have their pictures on their bedroom walls or in magazines.
Soon fans were clamouring for photos of their favourite movie or theatre stars, and so an industry of glamorous photos to cheer people up in what was an era of drabness and war began.
Katherine Hepburn, Betty Grable, Maureen O’Hara to name but a few were made more famous by their photos being used on calendars, stuck on schoolboy lockers and in army barracks.
There were man’s ideal of the “perfect woman” and the movie studios invented fictitious life stories around them to make them even more appealing.
Retro Pin-up girls represented everything an average woman in the street aspired to and reflected a glamorous side of life that was sadly missing in the forties and fifties.
In the thirties such stars as Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo and Dorothy Lamour had graced our screens and given us all an outlet outside our ordinary lives. As it was gradually realised by the movie moguls that there was a great thirst for glamour pin-ups so the industry began to grow.
Central to all of this of course was the glamour photographer. Gradually these photographers became almost as famous as the models themselves, and by developing new ideas about how to capture the best images possible, the pin-ups became more and more sophisticated.
The pin-up photo of Jane Russell in the film “The Outlaw” however caused a lot of controversy and was considered at the time to be extremely provocative and daring. How times have changed!
The servicemen’s lives during World War II were relieved by their pin-up photos which were plastered over the walls and lockers in their barracks. “Nose art” painted on the cockpit of planes became the norm and helped the men to face the horrors of the war and brought some normality to what was a terrible time in their lives.
The pin-up photographs became a tool in the advertising and music industry. It was soon realised that a glamorous woman’s photo could sell products such as washing machines, cars etc. So another industry was born.
The music industry used pin-up photos of the artists themselves to promote their new albums and so it was not just the movie stars that were being sought after.
Newspapers started to appreciate the selling power of the pin-up and began using more and more glamorous pin-up photos in their papers and magazines.
Agents for actresses and singers recognised an opportunity for free publicity and started to supply newspapers and magazines with photos of their clients for publication.
The fashion industry itself started to use glamorous stars to promote their designs and shows and so the pin-up girls became more and more in demand. What had started out as a trip to the theatre or cinema for relaxation and a time away from the day to day drudgery of everyday life became a huge and successful industry within itself.