Skimpy Collection

Flapper on Bonnet 1927
A girl on a bonnet: wears a skimpy sleeveless white drop waist dress hitched up to expose her thighs, T-bar shoes, a cloche hat & a scarf a la Isadora Duncan

Poster - Eat More Fruit - for Health and Vitality - published / issued by the Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd. Date: 1950s

Girl in her underwear riding a large Easter egg
A girl in her underwear riding a large Easter egg

Not Every Bathing Dress Spells a Plunge in the River! by Barribal. 1925

Print Users Yearbook -- red-haired woman
Print Users Yearbook -- a red-haired woman in a skimpy costume, with a long scarf billowing from each hand. Date: circa 1930s

Actress from the Mack Sennett Comedy Studios
A rather lovely actress in a rather skimpy swimsuit from the Mack Sennett Comedy Studios, Los Angeles, USA. She holds a fine striped parasol and stands at the end of a jetty

Woman with Dogs 1929
Pretty young woman in skimpy costume, relaxing by the sea with her four fluffy white dogs

Bathing Beauty / Rosalba
Cheeky-looking young woman in a skimpy red swimsuit, sitting on a diving board: Rosalba

Anna May Wong in A E Dupont's Piccadilly
Anna May Wong as Shosho in British International Pictures film, A E Dupont's Piccadilly, Bioscope Gallery of British Films & Stars. Date: 1929

Comic postcard, Couple in bedroom, phone call Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman complains to hotel manager Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman offers bathing dress Date: early 20th century

A Bare living by Wilton Williams
A cabaret dancer wearing very little entertains diners at a smart restaurant. Date: 1928

Ann Dvorak, American actress
Ann Dvorak (1911-1979), American actress. 1938

Cartoon, Logic! by Bert Thomas. Daughter to mother: Well, I hardly ever go to bed here. I must take my clothes off sometimes. Date: 1933

The Amateur by Lewis Baumer

Maud Allan as Salome
Maud Allan in her famous role as Salome, holding aloft the head of John the Baptist. Photograph reproduced in The Bystander which comments on the scandal her erotic portrayal of a religious subject

Bathing Beauty - Red Cap
Pretty young woman standing up to her calves in the sea, wearing a skimpy white corset- style swimsuit and a red scarf: Miss Red-Cap. Date: circa 1915

Mind the Step, Empire Theatre, Islington, North London, a Frank Rubens production. 1910s

Past and Presnt Fashions - The difference
Past and Present Fashions: Past Fashion - Covered everything and touched nothing; Present Fashion - Touches everything and covers nothing ! Date: circa 1910

The Cult of Nudity - sunbathing fashions, 1930s
Page from The Sphere reporting on the growing vogue for sunbathing fashions, particularly backless swimsuits - a style that began at the fashionable French resorts of the Riviera

Vignette design, Mexican women in their underwear. Date: circa 1910s

Estelle Lingerie Glamour Wear - Back to the Cave... as shapely as Eve. 1971

Sheer stockings packaging design by David Wright
Packaging for Glamour Girl sheer stockings from the Sherwood Knitwear Company, Burbage, Leicestershire, designed by pin-up artist David Wright

Young girl in underwear poses by the river
A pretty young girl tiptoes along the riverbank wearing only the briefest of undergarments! Date: circa 1904

Advertisement for Felco chain block. 1938

Advertisement for Felco bearing block. 1949

Advertisement for Felco equalising and adjuster sling. 1947

Young woman in a blue bikini, West Country
Young woman in a blue bikini, standing in the surf, West Country. Date: circa 1980s

Italian lady in skimpy see-through nightgown
Italian lady posing in a rather skimpy and decidely see-through nightgown, with pale blue stockinggs and balck high-heeled shoes. Date: circa 1910s

Woman running on a beach, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Couple on a beach, West Country
Couple hugging on a beach, West Country. Date: circa 1980s

Young woman jumping in a grass skirt, West Country
Young woman jumping on a beach in a grass skirt, West Country. Date: circa 1980s

Woman and child on a rock -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

I ve only got to put my hat on! by Bevan Petman. circa 1920s

Startling Stories - Sci Fi Mag - Shadow Over Mars
The front cover of Startling Stories magazine, showing a man and a woman (in skimpy gold costume) being attacked by three red ape-like monsters with fearsome teeth

Lya del Velez and Mr Brookes costumes for Chelsea Arts Ball
Mlle. Lya del Velez, the well-known dancer and her partner, Mr Brookes, in the costumes they wore at the Chelsea Arts Ball which took place on New Years Eve at the Albert Hall, 1932. Date: 1932

Advertisement for Felco products. 1946

Music cover, O-Kay for Sound, from a London Palladium production by George Black, with words and music by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr. 1936

Estelle Lingerie Glamour Wear - Pantie Extravaganza! 1971

Couple running on a beach, West Country
Couple running hand in hand on a beach, West Country. circa 1980s

Woman in two poses in Paris Plaisirs
Woman in two poses wearing a skimpy costume in Paris Plaisirs magazine, photos by Sobol. Date: circa 1920s

Young woman in pink bikini, West Country
Young woman in pink bikini, posing with a beach ball on sand dunes, West Country. Date: circa 1980s

Miss Dora Dubey, one of the company appearing in Dollys Revels at the Piccadilly Hotel in London in 1924. The Bystander comments that she is

New Fashions for 1918 by William Heath Robinson, WW1
New Fashions for 1918 - designed to meet the shortage of tweeds. A series of revealing menswear outfits suggested by Heath Robinson during the First World War. Date: 1918

Female singer in concert, Penwith, Cornwall
Unidentified female singer in concert with Meat Loaf at the Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall. Date: 1983

Dorothy Lamour (1914 -1996) American film actress. Plays Marama in The Hurricane 1937 Date: 1938

French girls adjusts a vase of blooms
French girl wearing a skimpy pink negligee adjusts a vase of blooms. Date: circa 1920s

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