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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 19170, member: 67"]I once ran across a racy sketchbook with sketches like this all done at the same time in the mid 1940's. The artist had obviously copied from pin-ups like Petty and naughty comics from the 1930s that had been handed down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Producers of novelty and risque items often used unpaid or underpaid artists.</p><p><br /></p><p>These look like yarn dyed (jacquard) rather than screen printing, which is unusual at this size. But even at the larger size, I could see them sewn under a sailors neck flap, or inside a peacoat. I have a small collection of embroidery cut from under the collar and cuffs of WWII navy uniforms, like topless ladies or topless mermaids.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 19170, member: 67"]I once ran across a racy sketchbook with sketches like this all done at the same time in the mid 1940's. The artist had obviously copied from pin-ups like Petty and naughty comics from the 1930s that had been handed down. Producers of novelty and risque items often used unpaid or underpaid artists. These look like yarn dyed (jacquard) rather than screen printing, which is unusual at this size. But even at the larger size, I could see them sewn under a sailors neck flap, or inside a peacoat. I have a small collection of embroidery cut from under the collar and cuffs of WWII navy uniforms, like topless ladies or topless mermaids.[/QUOTE]
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