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On a ship, France 1952 BB5201 Costume Front gather center stay bandeau and sidestrapped culotte nombril. TML. N-5. Cleavage. Actions Eighteen year old Brigitte Bardot, at the beginning of her career, leans over on the deck of a boat and looks up at the camera (1). Closer in (2). Sitting she teases areolage (3), tosses her hair (4), and gives a toothy smile (5). When she stands and ties a rope around her waist up you can observe that this low-cut nombril lies south of most pinups (6). She poses facing her right (7) and works with the director (8). This widely distributed publicity shot (9) is also integrated into the theater cards for the movie (10, 11). Commentary Brigitte Bardot introduces the bikini to European cinema and takes her first step in establishing herself as the most famous European pin-up girl of the mid-20th century. BB is to Europe what MM is to America, although the back stories are different. Bikini scientists should observe the center-stays built into these triangulated cups, and how the center gather enables cleavage centros. Source Publicity still from the film Manina, La Fille Sans Voiles, 1952, also called The Girl in the Bikini. References include Continental Film Review, London, and Mark Gabor, The Pin-up, Universe Books, Crown Publishers, 381 Park Ave. South, New York 10016, 1972, and many Internet sources. 11 pictures. |
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