|
Paris / London / New York June 1956 LL5616 Costume The French girls are topless and wear a parted dress to show panties. The "English" girls wear the same with pasties. The "American" girl's dress covers their torso also, but the still show legs and panties. TMLB. TML + pasties. L. Actions Chorus girls for the French edition of the motion picture Folies Bergère expose different amounts of their body for different parts of the world (1). Chorus girls for the French edition are topless (left). For the English idea they wear pasties (center). And for the American version they are fully covered except for their legs (right). Commentary Relative modesty is a concept advanced by Lawrence Langner that is particularly applicable to bikinis. Source Pictured credited toRealities Magazine, Paris, June 1956. Scanned from Lawrence Langner, The Importance of Wearing Clothes, Hastings House, New York, 1959. 1 picture. |
|
