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In the 1940s and 1950s, Robert Harrison published “girlie“ magazines on pulp paper with titles like Beauty Parade, Wink, Flirt, Titter, and Eyeful. The models included chorus girls, strippers and burlesque entertainers, with text and comic images frequently referring to Broadway. The original layouts were often like burlesque presentations, with an accent on jokes and gags, often involving puns. Some layouts included comedians in baggy pants. Many of the the pictorials were given alliterative titles, and one of these, Fancy Femmes, provides the title of our ebook. With this expression, the magazine describes women who enjoy dressing in stockings, garter belts, corsets, lacy undergarments and the highest of heels. Although the Harrison product is fairly remembered for its cheesecake, each issue served generous helpings of models in extra-high heels and old-fashioned corsets and stockings through the 1940s and early 1950s. This original ebook anthology, second in the series, collects photogra
