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Arabesque movie setting, America c. 1955 TA5510 Costume Open-front vest and skirt. Necklace, armlets, belly button jewel pasty. TMB. N-2. Navelage. Actions A dancer in this 1950s American film lets her breasts bare themselves (1, 2), but her navel remains covered with a jewel (3). Commentary Bejeweling the belly button is a 1950s obsession that even extends into American television in the 1960s. Source Still from the film, Trahison a Athenes, date estimation, from Lo Duca and Maurice Bessy, L'erotisme au Cinema, Filmarchives, Paris, 1977, p. I-31. 3 pictures. |
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