Pinup girls ♡

Hello everyone!

As you may already know I have a love for pinup girls. One of my favourite things about pinup is the glamour & vintage look. I wanted to do a post showing you a few things about pinup and why not start with the Queen of pinup.

The beautiful Bettie Page is probably one of the most well known pinup girls out there. She is a symbol of beauty, glamour & femininity. She is just as much known today as she was in her day.

From the age of ten Bettie & her two sisters lived in an orphanage after her parents divorced & there was financial difficulty. Here Bettie spent a lot of time with her sisters styling hair & make-up. Bettie also learnt how to cook & sew, which would go on to lead her to create her own bikini's for her modeling photo shoots.

In 1950 Bettie moved to New York, one day as she was walking along the Coney Island shore she was spotted by Jerry Tibbs who put together Bettie's first pinup girl portfolio.  Tibbs introduced Bettie to numerous photographers & her career soon took off from there!

1955 was the year Bettie was nominated for & won ''Miss Pinup Girl of The World'' & she was later given the title of ''The Girl with the Perfect Figure''

Bettie modeled for lots of magazines & Playboy. She also spent time as an actor in New York Broadway.

In the 1960's Bettie mysteriously disappeared from the media limelight & later passed away in 2008 in Los Angeles, California said to be the result of a heart attack following a hospital stay for pneumonia.

Bettie remains the Queen of pinup & her legend lives on! Her following is as strong as ever & she still inspires beauty, fashion & style today!

From celebs to people we see on the street, people are inspired by her beauty, glamour & style.

Here Katy Perry demonstrates her Bettie Page pinup look.

Here on the left Zooey Deschanel has another very similar look. It is clear that beauty & styling are still inspired today by the Queen of pinup.

Beyonce to the right has the classic Bettie Page hair style 'bangs' & pinup girl inspired make-up.












Vintage & pinup go hand in hand. I love the coca cola vintage range & have started a small collection, which I hope I can continue to grow!

I got these lovelies from British Home Stores at Christmas time about two years ago. 

I usually find this kind of thing when I'm not even looking! 

I love how glamours the coca cola pinup girls are & I'm sure having beauties like this would have promoted coca cola even more. 

I think it's fair to say the glamour of pinup girls influenced advertisements used in the past.

A lot of old advertisements use glamours ladies to help grab peoples attention. Vintage coca cola ads are probably the ones that come to mind first. Coca cola used images of good looking women in their ads from the very beginning & this developed over time to become more of a pinup style.  

Here are some coca cola ads from 1910 

Here's a few from the 1930's 

The women in these ads are glamorous, beautiful & pretty but are not quite pinup at this time.  The top advertisement shows a girl in a bathing suit which is closest to the pinup look. 

The 1960's saw much more femininity in the ads for coca cola. Which has much more of a pinup feel. 

The swim suit is one item of clothing associated with pinup girls. 

Misc years. These ads are probably the ones we all recognise the most when we think of coca cola & pinup. 

Coca cola used Verga girls in their ads. These pinup's where named Verga girls after the artist Alberto Vergas one of the most famous pinup girl artists. 

This one is actually one of my personal faves & I have a very similar fridge magnet that I love! I didn't actually buy this one it was left behind in one of the student houses I rented & I couldn't leave it behind! 

All of these ads have been inspired by the pinup girl. We can see some classic pinup poses. 

These two ads aren't as much pinup style but still capture the beauty & glamour of the women.   

In 2011 coca cola released their vintage Vargas pinup girls back on the cans of coca cola to celebrate their 125th anniversary. 

Kellogg's was another company who used the glamour of women to help advertise. 

The old Kellogg's advertisements used beautiful women who were house wives in their ads to appeal to the particular audience of house wives who also wanted to look glamours & beautiful. 

A lot of these ads focused on showing how Kellogg's cereal could improve the way you look & feel.  As the above picture states in the caption below ''There's a beauty parlor in your kitchen.''

This ad is aimed towards weight, something most of us girls think about! It suggests this cereal is light but full of nourishment. 

Here the ad suggests health is beauty. Showing a pretty lady in the ad will capture the attention of both male & female audiences. Females will want to look good & as the lady in the ad looks pretty they will associate eating Kellogg's with gaining health & beauty themselves. 

As most you know Coca Cola & Kellogg's vintage are two of my faves! 

What do you think?

Do you have a favourite pinup girl?