your fisrt taste

[Delyssia LaBelle {Madam}]

Where did you first hear about pin ups? Where were you first exposed to them? As most of you might know from participating in the nose art discussion with me that Air shows is where I first encountered pin ups. The beauties on the planes and the booths dedicated to Varga girls had me wrapped in a trance and i would spend hours sitting and listening to the old dance music in the consession stands. I was around 12 when i remember being captivated by those curvy cuties! what about you?

[NolaChick™ {Madam}]

I first got into it when I was young. My mom loved to watch old movies and the "look" just rubbed off on me.

[Delyssia LaBelle {Madam}]

well im glad it did, you look lovely in "the look!"
NolaChick said:

I first got into it when I was young. My mom loved to watch old movies and the "look" just rubbed off on me.

[Cassie Wanda]

I keep finding stuff and can't figure out when I first got into it. I had a pin up book I got for my birthday from a friend in HS, but then I found some silly pictures of my friends and I trying to recreate some in Jr. High... Then I found these coasters at my grandmas and remember them from when I was a kid....

[RoseRed Polkadot]

Spent a lot of a dysfunctional childhood watching black and white films on the tv. Was particular in love with the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan films and the Road films with Dorothy Lamarr....and as Nola Chick says
"the "look" just rubbed off on me."!

[Jian Bastille]

I couldn't tell you.

I watched retro morning TV as a kind on the way to school. Yeah, there were cartoons, but there were also The Three Stooges (and their HOT 'girlfriends' on some episodes,) The Honeymooners (Damn, ALICE!) I Love Lucy (Oh, redheads,) and Little Rascals (which also had hot women in them.) Stockings. Retro hair, billowing skirts, period makeup... I wouldn't go so far as to say I have a fetish for such things, just a preference, and a starting-point for all things I consider feminine and right with femininity.

Couldn't tell you when I found what I would know to be Rockwell, Rucci, Elvgren, or such, but I recognized the art long before I had an inkling of who they were, or what they were doing. Between accidental very-early childhood viewing of Alphonse Mucha and predominantly Elvgren pin-ups, those styles popped up in my work in my early teens. Yes, somehow I'd seen them, and it influenced me.

This is pre-internet, and I'd been known to rummage through art books and libraries, so somehow, I might not have known fully what I was looking at, but it's apparent I did, indeed.

[Delyssia LaBelle {Madam}]

glad you found it!
Jian Bastille said:

I couldn't tell you.

I watched retro morning TV as a kind on the way to school. Yeah, there were cartoons, but there were also The Three Stooges (and their HOT 'girlfriends' on some episodes,) The Honeymooners (Damn, ALICE!) I Love Lucy (Oh, redheads,) and Little Rascals (which also had hot women in them.) Stockings. Retro hair, billowing skirts, period makeup... I wouldn't go so far as to say I have a fetish for such things, just a preference, and a starting-point for all things I consider feminine and right with femininity.

Couldn't tell you when I found what I would know to be Rockwell, Rucci, Elvgren, or such, but I recognized the art long before I had an inkling of who they were, or what they were doing. Between accidental very-early childhood viewing of Alphonse Mucha and predominantly Elvgren pin-ups, those styles popped up in my work in my early teens. Yes, somehow I'd seen them, and it influenced me.

This is pre-internet, and I'd been known to rummage through art books and libraries, so somehow, I might not have known fully what I was looking at, but it's apparent I did, indeed.

[Brittany]

I don't really remember when I officially started loving pin up or 50s style.. I know that I've always been drawn to it. I recall when I was a little girl different scenes, pictures, furniture in different places or stores, etc, and absolutely loving the whole style of it. Growing up, my mom always played Patsy Cline, and other classics.. and I discovered Elvis on my own (she is anti-Elvis!! o.o) Even some of my fashion choices leaned toward the 1940s-50s style. It wasn't until much later that I actually realized "oh!! This is 1950s!" haha!! :D