Risque Collection (page 9)

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

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