Contemporary pin-up or black&white vs colour

high-heels-12When I found this photo I was going to publish it with a remark, that this girl definitely looks happier (see It’s all about eyes, isn’t it?). Besides it’s just a great contemporary pin-up image with a beautiful girl in high-heels and a hint of pantyhose.

But then I’ve found another photo (see below). What do you think? 😉

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X-ray, fetish and Eizo pin-up calendar. Part I

x-ray fetish high heels pin-upJapanese company Eizo (the produce possibly the best professional monitors in the world) released a calendar of X-Ray images.

Well, this is where your imagination works at the full speed. You do not see if the model is pretty or not, you do not see what the model is wearing (except the high heels – excellent addition!).

Sometimes you do not even know if it’s a man or a woman or if the person is alive! Your imagination does all the “processing”. It clads the girls or boys in shiny stockings or latex, it colours their hair in red or black, it changes the race, shapes and forms to what excites you most. While the photos actually suggest only the poses…

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The proper clothes or pin-up of the 30-60’s. Part I

pin-up-05Pin-up… What is pin-up actually? Pin-up means different things for different people. The original meaning is a picture for pinning up on a wall. The first pin-ups appeared around 1890, though the term was first attested in 1941.

A bit provocative, mostly women, always pretty and cheerful. Pop culture, kitsch, addressed for the masses, it should be real on one hand but exaggerated or accented on the other. 100% sexually attractive and innocent at the same time, so you would not be able to do anything with the pictured girl should she appear in the real life. How can you touch that naive charming beauty? The only thing you can do is to gallantly help or rescue her since the naive beauties always get into troubles.

… BTW, the women were indeed wearing stockings with seams and high heels… Every day… Everywhere …
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