Ocelot

 

https://awmblog.tumblr.com/image/661455242661085184

La Compagnia dell'Oniro - Vedova Allegra

 

At Teatro Bellini di Napoli

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNuPEU2FeDh/

Ouch! - Adding Insult to Injury

 

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/loutigergirl99

A Little Tentative

 

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/358176976587430315/
 

High Times

 

 

"A little bit of gay Paree will brighten the gym at Lincoln high School in Mayfair tomorrow and Friday nights when the school stages its annual 'Lincoln Jamboree.' The girls practicing for a bona fide can-can are (from left) Lyn Fitzgerald, 17; Cindy Grabusic, 16; Kathi Moran, 17; Nancy Harfman, 17; Carol Mosebach, 16, and June Surrick, 15."

Abraham Lincoln high School Philadelphia 1971

https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll3/id/57504

https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll3/id/57500

Maid

 

"You never asked ME to dance for you!"

Combining two good things.  Artist Dan DeCarlo

https://fullbrief.blogspot.com/2019/08/cartoons-and-comics.html

Jive Championship at Haringey dance hall in London, June 1956

 

 

 Shiny silk knickers - made to be seen

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/408631366163436352/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/633740978898338419/

French Frolics

 

From "French Frills" gentlemen's magazine

https://fullbrief.blogspot.com/2021/01/for-those-of-us-with-yearning-for-those.html

Women in can can girl costumes, plan to march in Adlai E. Stevenson homecoming parade, 1948

Bringing new life to the party

The dancers: 

Evans, Mrs. R. Morgan
Anderson, Mrs. Paul Jr.
Coveney, Mrs. E.L.
McGaughey, Mrs. William

 http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/13974

 http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/13710

 http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/13740

Taking it to an Extreme

 

From the Vintage Arcadia Tumblr blog

Can-Can

 

Retread

 

 

Photo study for a Gil Elvgren pin-up

From the Vintage Arcadia Tumblr blog

The finished product:

https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/35845

Estes Park 1954

 

"Dunraven Ball / Wed 21 July 1954" and in pencil "Riverside Ballroom".

 https://estespark.pastperfectonline.com/photo/9368A7E4-B84B-4D80-BDD6-915821660720

Swing

 

From Harry--Sledge on Tumblr

Triumph!

 

No explanation needed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-FSBMQVkAAFWLW.jpg