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Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [1] [2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women.
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and one in ...
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total over 37 years.
A woman in her 40s knows what she wants. She's made it through the frenzy of the 20s , the highs and lows of the 30s , and now she's got it all going on. Maybe she has a family or maybe she's ...
Whether you are in your 40s, 50s, or 60s, the right haircut can do wonders for looking younger.
Kate Winslet, 47, shared how aging is empowering in a new interview, adding that women in their 40s become “more powerful, more sexy” than ever before.
Jaimie Alexander born () March 12, 1984 (age 40) Jane Alexander born ( 1939-10-28 ) October 28, 1939 (age 84) Khandi Alexander born ( 1957-09-04 ) September 4, 1957 (age 66)
Contents. 1930–1945 in Western fashion. The most characteristic North American fashion trend from the 1930s to 1945 was attention at the shoulder, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s. The period also saw the first widespread use of man-made fibers, especially rayon for ...