Risque Collection (#10)

A Woman Displays Her Garters
United States: c. 1940. A young woman displays her garters and her nylon stockings. By 1940, nylons were available to consumers nationwide

Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design
Chantelle Crop - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Scenes from the French film Casanova, 1927, directed by Russian Alexandra Volkoff with a largely German cast. A sumptuous costume drama, filmed partly in Venice, it was dazzlingly ambiguous

Girl Wears Towel / Colour
A young blonde model dressed in white stilettos and a towel watches out of a window. She is possibly expecting a visitor with a gift to put under her Christmas tree

Risque Girl In Sailor Cap
United States: 1930. Titled A Little Salt, this pinup woman in a sheer outfit and a sailor cap looks the part

The Apple of Eden, by G Carlton Wallace, a romantic play first produced at the Elephant and Castle, London, August 1910, then the Princes Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, April 1912

Stylish young lady wearing a self-made hurdling outfit. Date: 1923

How can you do it on your screw? ( Screw meant how much you earned). The question here is... How indeed was she getting so much money for all these fancy clothes, hats and shoes...!!! Date: circa 1909

Girl Shows a Leg 1908
A young woman lifts her ample skirts & petticoats in order to check her stockings. 1908

Show Girls / Dolly Sisters
Betty Grable & June Haver camp it up in the Hollywood film of the lives of the Dolly Sisters looking very 1940s & blonde despite the fact the sisters were brunette Date: 1945

Two film stars in Paris Plaisirs magazine: Madge Bellamy (Fox Film) and Agnes Petersen, as seen in the film Scheherazade (Alliance Cinematographique Europeene). Date: circa 1928

Woman in two poses in Paris Plaisirs
Woman in two poses wearing a skimpy costume in Paris Plaisirs magazine, photos by Sobol. Date: circa 1920s

Music Hall Retrospective in Paris Plaisirs
Music Hall Retrospective (Palace Revue) in Paris Plaisirs, showing a young woman in exotic costume in three different poses. Date: 1925

Mlle Lily Scott in Paris Plaisirs
Mlle Lily Scott of the Casino de Paris in Paris Plaisirs, Mirror of Beauty series, sitting on a stool fully clothed, showing off her legs. Date: circa 1920s

Miss Dora Dubey, one of the company appearing in Dollys Revels at the Piccadilly Hotel in London in 1924. The Bystander comments that she is

Enshoku akisame monogatari, A risque version of the tale of Akisame. [between 1804 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color; 36.7 x 16 cm

HIGHWAY ROBBERY, 1922. Traveling: Highway Robbery Then and Now. Illustration by C. Herouard for a 1922 issue of La Vie Parisienne

EXERCISE AT HOME, 1921. The benefits of not having a maid and having to do the house cleaning yourself. Illustration by G. Pavis from a 1921 issue of La Vie Parisienne

French Ladies Striped Swimming Costume, worn with bathing robe and some remarkable laced greek sandals, matching the design on the costume

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Tennis Humour - Postcard
I can see you do try to keep your end up! Date: circa 1930s

Whirlwind kisses. Mlle Hilda Radney, who at a charity fete in Paris raised 50, 000 francs in one hour for the Hospitals by selling kisses to male patrons of the fete 250 francs a time

Gil Elvgrens Pin-Up Girl
Doctors Orders, 1939. One ofA

Miss Front Page of 1948
United States: 1948. The third edition of Miss Front Page of 1948

Bathing Suit Fashion Police
Atlantic City, New Jersey: c 1921. A dubious and curious police officer measures the hem of the newest in bathing fashions. Are the suits decentja Time will tell!

Portrait Of Exotic Dancer
Paris, France: c. 1927. Renowned Russian danseuse, Nikolska, who has been enchanting Paris patrons

HAMMOCK, 1892. A husband, returning to Asbury Park for the weekend, is upset to find his wife lying in a hammock. American wood engraving, 1892

A risque version of the tale of Akisame. Print shows a woman sitting on the floor and a man standing on steps behind her. Date between 1804 and 1830

Scene from banned play, La Vierge Folle

Two ladies in saucy swimwear, which would have been EXTREMELY racey for this time period! They fool around on the end of a jetty at the endge of a lake. Date: circa 1904

Humorous Postcard - Underwear Department
A couple are directed to the Sports Department " Straight through the Ladies Underwear". This comment causes much delight to the Gentleman

Can Can Dancer - Patte en L air
Can Can Dancer performing a " Patte en L air" (basic translation: " Feet in the Air" !). Date: 1905

Cupping, historical artwork
Cupping. Historical artwork showing the use of suction cups, a form of traditional medicine used to bring bad blood to the surface from internal organs

Pin-Up in Bathrobe 1 / 5
Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed to look out of the window at the snow covered scenery. Is she waiting for someone?

Backless Dresses 1919
The latest vogue for backless gowns causes a stir. N.B low waists & the return of the tunic skirt. The middle lady has the high curly hairdo popular at the time

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