You see, women had things to do, countries to keep running and they kind of needed working spines for that shit. So they stepped up, wearing more practical and masculine clothing than before.Ī trend that was immediately sexualised for war propaganda. Women donned Gibson Girl-esque hair-dos, along with S-bend corsets which simultaneously pushed out the tits, nipped in the waist, and pulled the wearer's back forward, allowing for that classic Gibson Girl arse to tit ratio.įamed real-life Gibson Girl Camile Clifford and her RIDICULOUS waistīut the outbreak of World War I saw the demise of the Gibson Girl. No more would women obligingly get that Gibson Girl figure by donning an s-bend corset. Soon there was a Gibson Girl boom, with her face appearing all over magazine and newspapers, quickly becoming the ideal standard for American beauty. To be fair, the Gibson Man does look like an insufferable twat She wanted independence, but like… not too much independence (Gibson Girls weren’t after the vote, that would just be crazy!).Ī Gibson Man was created to go with The Gibson Girl, but much like Ken to Barbie, nobody really cared. It was the impossible woman they wanted to pin to their walls, not her random boyfriend. There is no danger of these ladies getting sand in their hair, nor anywhere else.īut what bought the Gibson Girl to life was that she had a clear personality. She was a new woman, self assured, put together, sensual and intelligent all at once.
She had sizeable breasts but an itty bitty wasp waist a swan-like neck that was dangerously close to biologically impossible and masses of dark hair piled precariously atop her head, miraculously inoperable to sweat, rain and general disaster.
Well, my friends, let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start) with the mother of all pin ups:Ĭreated in 1887 by Charles Gibson, The Gibson Girl is now widely accepted as the first pin-up.Įvery time I throw my hair up I aim for this level of beauty…and every time I get a crow's nestĭrawn lasciviously, the Gibson Girl represented a woman that could be imitated but couldn’t actually exist.
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