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Annalai
– Loves
and wears waist- pinching, tightly laced corsets.
Inspired
by the fashion from the past, she
has improved her waistline and has shaped her upper body by wearing
corsets since 2001, all day and all night.
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Diane
Brill - A extrovert with many talents night club owner, model,
actress, singer, TV presenter and writer. All her exploits are
defined with her love of over the top and retro sense of fashion. We
love her.
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Burlesque
Queens - Where to put these wonderful pictures, some of these
ladies were celebrities, but all of them were pro's and definitely not
amateurs.
A collection of Ladies of Burlesque,
dressed before they undressed.
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Alma Cogan - A
British singer, well known for her "fabulous frocks."
"She
loved feathers and frills sometimes using over 250 yards of material in her
petticoat to give the gown the style she wanted. "
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Mamie
Van Doren - Another 50's blonde bombshell, born in the early 30's,
and still going strong today. She worked in a series of B movies in
the 50's and 60's before going on to host TV nostalgia series. Still
going strong at 76, you will be amazed at her current
photo's and also be amazed at her longevity - see her here
over 54 years
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Diana
Dors - She was England's answer to Marilyn & Jayne, but never
managed their widespread appeal. Although considered to have acting
ability, it was rarely allowed to show and she continued mostly
playing the blonde bombshell until her figure ballooned in the sixties
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Anita
Ekberg - Another 50's blonde bombshell, with a fabulous figure.
Russ Meyer, went on record numerous times to say she was the most
beautiful woman he ever photographed and that her 40D bust was the
most ample in Hollywood history, dwarfing rivals Jayne
Mansfield and the British actress Sabrina.
The combination of a colourful private life and physique gave her
appeal to gossip magazines that proliferated in the 1950s and s She
soon became a major 1950s Pin-up.
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Connie
Francis - The diminutive 5' 2" singers career has spanned
from 1955 to the present, her fabulous dresses and high piled hair
seemed to compensate for her small stature.
Her love of shopping was legendary and every time she was photographed
she seemed to have yet another glamorous feminine outfit.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The Hungarian actress who was more famous as a well dressed socialite
than her original occupation as an actress.
She acquired a reputation for matrimony, opulent living and sumptuous
feminine outfits
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Ava
Gardner - Certainly one of the most beautiful actresses of the
20th century, her beauty captivated several influential men including
Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra and Howard Hughes.
"The Face of an angel, body of a goddess"
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Jutta
Van Ginkel - What a wonderfully descriptive name, now that Grant
has kindly identified Jutta (see Cora
?) we thought that Jutta deserved a page of her own. Jutta was a
winner of several Dressing for Pleasure competitions and looking
at her figure it is not hard to see why!!
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Lacie - This
lady is a modern day miracle. A 23/7 life of 17" corsets
(wasp-waist and straight front). High heels including ballet heels and
an unrivalled wardrobe of spectacular outfits including retro, fetish
and bondage.
We highly recommend a visit to her site (pay were afraid but well
worth the money.
Visit her at :- www.korsettgalerie.de |
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Gypsy
Rose Lee - Probably the most famous burlesque start of all, She
became as famous for her onstage wit as for her strip style. She was
made famous in the film Gypsy with Natalie Wood
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Gina
Lollobrigida - Of all the beauties to come out of Italy, Gina
stands alone in a class all her own. The hourglass body so
outrageously formed that men would go wild at the sight of her. Yup,
this Italiana had it all.
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Sophia
Loren the Italian 50's film star whose good looks and
sensational figure have carried her through five decades. And she
still looks good today !!Italian
1950's
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1960's [1][2][3]960ef
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1970-80's [1]
1990's [1]
2000's
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Tana
Louise - A fetish model from the same era as Betty Page, Tana
though has a much more mature figure and seemingly endless selection
of outfits.
Our thanks to Warren for providing the pictures and also for writing
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Jayne Mansfield
"The Pink Lady", she was was famous for her voluptuous figure, but
had many other talents.
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Marilyn
Monroe needs no explanation, not the original blonde bombshell, but
still the best.
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Thierry
Mugler - the French fashion designer, he is not female and
also he is not a celebrity in the way of the other featured
gals. But his dress designs echo all that
RetroXotique
is about and to see clothes like
these displayed in the last 20 years instead of harking back to the
50's and beyond is a real pleasure.
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Betty Page is perhaps one of the best known
"cheese cake", pinup and fetish models from the
fifties. She was Bunny Yeagers favorite model, as well as modeling for
artists and girlie magazines such as Flirt and Eyeful.
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Jane
Russell had pizzazz, that special something, her pneumatic figure
kept in the public eye in 40's and 50's. In most of her films she
seemed to be in permanent state of undress, which was all the better
to admire her wonderful figure
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Dolly
Parton the over top (in every department) country and western
singer whose famous quote "I have made a lot of money, and I need
a lot of money, because it costs a lot of money to look this
cheap," exactly sums up her image.
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Sabrina was a B movie and television
star during the 50's. Due mostly to her astounding figure, she was much photographed and soon became famous
for being famous.
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Sarah
of Rosa - this Retro girl has become a favourite at Retroxotique,
she is now quite famous on Youtube for her wonderful video's , showing
her in most beautiful of outfits all with a common theme of the
tightest of skirts and her own line of extreme point stiletto
shoes. Even better she promotes the this extremely feminine styles of
pencil skirts, fishtail skirts and hobble skirts on a day to day basis
in her shop in Brighton and on her travels.
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Elizabeth
Taylor - perhaps the most divaesque of our roll call, entertaining
us with her clothes, jewellery and number of husbands to an unparalleled
level and creating a dedicated tabloid following for nearly sixty
years.
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Dita Von
Teese a present day Betty Page with a penchant for wasp waists and
the wonderful retro
fashions of the 40's and 50's
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Mae West -
only one of the silent screen vamps to last though from the 20's to the
80's. Famed for her quick wits and her curvaceous figure. She always
wore fantastic outfits. She started late in films in 1932 at the age of 39, but still managed
to continue all the way though until 1978 to an age of 85
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