Pin up girl - Novouralsk, Russia

Novouralsk is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains, about 70 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative centre of the oblast. It was formerly known as Sverdlovsk-44. Although it occurred during World War II and was named Novouralsk in 1954, it was kept secret until 1994. It has had closed-town status since its establishment.

 

Pin-up girl by Gil Elvgren - Oslo, Norway

Gillette A. Elvgren was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising, and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art. He was strongly influenced by the early "pretty girls" illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. 

 

Enoch Bolles, Circa 1935 - Montreal, Canada

Enoch Bolles was among the earliest and most widely circulated glamour illustrators. While known today solely as a pinup artist, Bolles was a versatile illustrator who also worked extensively in the advertising industry, creating hundreds of attractive color illustrations for products ranging from bread to cigarettes. 

His most widely reproduced advertising illustration is the "Windy Girl" for Zippo lighters. This work, produced in 1937, has recently been reissued as the Vargas Windy Girl and has appeared in well over 100 variations on Zippo lighters.

 

Pin-up - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The pin-up girl fashion took over the US in the 1940s, among the male part of the country. Especially the young one, for example, the American soldiers fighting on the fronts of World War II, who were far from women on a daily basis.   

They wanted to make up for it by seeing sweet, sexy girls - cut from the color press, printed on postcards, posters, and calendars.

Pin-up girl with mail - Murmansk, Russia

Pin-up - a term used to refer to a trend mainly derived from the 1940s and 1950s. Pin-up girls were beautiful and smiling, dressed in flared dresses or scanty outfits/underwear. They appeared mainly on posters that men pinned on the walls (hence their name).