a
reference to the drawings of
American illustrator
George Petty (1894-1975) during the early to mid-1900s. Using his wife and daughter as models, he drew
pictures of long-legged beautiful women for men's
magazines, calendars, and for advertisements of such things as cigarettes, bathing
suits and stockings. Often scantily clad or nude, "Petty
girl" illustrations were extremely popular. The Petty
girl became America's first full-fledged
magazine "pinup," and was once described as the "feminine ideal of
American men." (Pinups are
pictures of famous or very attractive persons, sometimes nude or semi-nude, pinned up on a
wall by an admirer, such as may be found in a soldier's
quarters.)
reference to the drawings of
George Petty, illustrator, during the 1930s through the 1960s. These were of very pretty women and were often used as pinups
pictures of very attractive or famous persons, pinned up on a
wall, as in
barracks, usually by admirers who have not met the subjects.