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Girls of the Day - More Pin Ups, Please!

Having found a web-site with a source for 1940s pin-ups -- paintings that were cover art for "girly" magazines -- I thought I'd favor my Regular Readers with a few more, this one from artist Billy Devorrs:



And here's one (a little more racy) from Gillette Elvgren:




Finally, here's one from Peter Driben:



I suspect that this genre does not exist anymore, and that's a pity.  We've grown so literal, and we've lost the sense that allure is more a matter of imagination than gratification.   It makes us less romantic, less classy, and, I think, less fulfilled in the end. 

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