This uncredited 1960 cover for Edwin Booth’s Desire is one of the more brazen pieces we’ve seen. Among the several reactions it conjures are wonder and sympathy for women who had to wear bras that made their breasts look like bazooka shells. There’s no doubt in our minds the contraptions were designed by men, but it was actually Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Jane Russell and a few others that made them popular. This art evokes that era and its pitfalls for women succinctly.
I was thinking the four of us could get to know each other a little better.