Letter from Warren

You ask for feedback as to what people would like.

Well, speaking for myself, I'd like to see more Tana Louise. Did you know that, around 1964,

TL was shot in color? All of the photos in EXOTIQUE were in b&w, but this shoot appeared in

a later publication, after EXOTIQUE had bitten the dust.

According to my info, Lennie Burtman (TL's husband) continued in other mag venues when,

for whatever reason, EXOTIQUE stopped being published. And I can believe this: his photo

work has a certain quality that I can't put into words but that I can pick out intuitively.

It gets to me like no other stuff I've seen since.

One of the memorable things about the color shoot of TL is that it shows her in one of

those magnificent coiffed hairdos that fashionable women wore from about 1958 until

perhaps the late 1970s. You hardly ever see these nowadays, but I used to date young (and

not-so-young) women circa 1960 who wore their hair this way and it drove me wild. It sur-

vives in most people's memory as "the beehive," but in fact the usual "beehive" was tame in

comparison to the more elegant "dos." These days the best one can hope for in this area is

sculpted hair. The "ringlet" style is pervasive and, to my mind, almost entirely without appeal.

I've tried keywording "coiffed hair" on the web but got only "beehives" and other forms of

"up" hairdos. Nowhere near as erotic as what I remember. A few years back I found a fetish

model who wore her hair the old-fashioned way and took several hundred shots of her. I

expect I sent you one or two.

So it would be great to see really sculpted coiffs - but God only knows how you could

find the pertinent photos.