Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

The era of the vintage pin up girls is generally accepted as starting from the late 1930s and lasting until the early 1960s. Representations of the female form have always been a popular form of art, from the day that prehistoric man first picked up a piece of charcoal and drew his mate on a cave wall, but it was to be many millions of years later before it became a form of commercial pop art.

In fact, the era of the vintage pin up girls really kicked off with the Second World War in Europe in 1939 and Asia in 1941, when first the British and then the American forces pinned photographs of their favorite stars to their barrack walls, locker doors and even to the sides of their foxholes and trenches during battle.

The vintage pin up girls of that era included 'The Profane Angel' (Carole Lombard), the Girl with the Million Dollar Legs (Betty Grable) and all of the above mentioned stars. Singer Vera Lynn also figured prominently on British walls, but a major reason for their popularity was that they offered hope and a sense of glamour to men who might die shortly, and also a contact with home when they were thousands of miles away fighting a faceless enemy.

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls

Pin Up Girls