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« on: April 12, 2007, 08:39:53 pm » |
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I once attended a bachelor party where the stag films all dated from before 1940. The women would bat their eyes at the camera then take off their bonnet, stole, veil, gloves, dress, bloomers, slip, merrywidow, corset, chemise, garters, stockings, bustle, and I would be sweating by the time they'd finish in bra and panties. It was so classy and so... layered! No nudity is required to arouse because the imagination is always much more inventive. There's no need to post pictures of Victorian erotica, because one can find plenty of websites devoted to it. Besides it takes more than oldness to be steampunk. I thus wanted to start a thread of steamy photographs, such as the Tea Girl that Abney Park found:  and I add to it my own find, a picture taken during wartime:  I am in love with these women. |
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La Bricoleuse
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2007, 08:49:19 pm » |
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Wow, their welding leathers and clogs are excellent. Thanks for sharing the photo.
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Johnny Payphone
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 05:05:19 pm » |
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Von Gast
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2007, 09:04:02 pm » |
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Well, I suppose the final image might attract the attention of a gentleman, but I doubt that his first thoughts will be of assisting the lady with changing the wheel!
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2007, 10:45:49 pm » |
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2007, 10:50:00 pm » |
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Well, I suppose the final image might attract the attention of a gentleman, but I doubt that his first thoughts will be of assisting the lady with changing the wheel!
Indeed! She seems perfectly capable  |
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Clym Angus
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2007, 03:23:39 am » |
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Wow. Those look as if they could have been taken last week. Emotional, truly emotional. |
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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2007, 11:06:10 pm » |
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The second thing one notices... aren't the tightly-spaced patterns of cooling fins on that big radial engine at North American just lovely?
Well, aren't they?
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Johnny Payphone
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« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2007, 11:41:18 pm » |
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Those pictures are fantastic... although I didn't intend for this thread to be just pictures of women with wrenches, there's no reason it should be exclusive to my particular... ahem... tastes. I know I had some pictures of some handsome steamy gentlemen around here... My grandmother was an airplane mechanic in the WAVES, so I love these kinds of old pictures (the WAVES were mostly involved in Pacific-theater aircraft work, and the WASPS were the lady pilots who freed up male pilots for combat). Women were just so classy back then, so to see them step up to the plate and competently fix or fly a warplane, when they're supposedly so fragile and docile, while still rockin' the hair and the seams, is just smokin'. After the war there was a bunch of "go back to the kitchen" propaganda from the government, and during the 50s women were supposed to be so June Cleaver, so this brief period kind of became an American secret... "psst... Grandma over there baking apple pie knows her way around a F6F Hellcat". Being raised in a family of welding women, is it any wonder I'm twisted this way? Indulge me, I beg you, I swear I'm not the only guy like this...          I think this one's the hottest...  |
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« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2007, 11:55:00 pm » |
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I'm totally on side with your taste Johnny, you're not the only guy like this. I'm not opposed to there being pictures of handsome gentlemen weilding a wrench as well, but I wouldn't mind a continual supply glamorous girls with their sleaves rolled up, getting dirty and doing a fine job at what they're doing.
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2007, 12:13:34 am » |
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True, true ya can't beat a wench with a wrench.
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La Bricoleuse
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2007, 12:46:50 am » |
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A lady with a wrench, however, might forget herself long enough to beat a man who referred to her as a "wench."
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2007, 07:51:13 am » |
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Some fantastic pictures.
I totally admire those gorgeous elegant women working in factories. I love that look and honestly it is one I have long felt myself drawn too. I have adored talking to many of my older friends about what it was like. My favorite friend is 86 has told me a lot about going dancing and getting ready and how they did their hair and makeup. Even about buying shoes. She said we don't have nearly as many choices now, you used to be able to buy heels with slick soles (perfect for dancing) with a wide front and a narrow heel.
I have to admit the 30s and 40s style very much influences the kind of clothing I purchase for myself.
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Johnny Payphone
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2007, 09:05:12 pm » |
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Some fellows with tools
Arr, not a looker in the bunch. Hammer-hand is cool though- I'd get one.   |
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Honky-Tonk Dragon
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« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2007, 01:32:42 am » |
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What a lovely thread! I just have to throw this Man Ray in  Erotique Voilee 1933I hope this picture does not offend anyone. Though part of it's appeal is the (especially for it's era) transgressive androgeny. To me what is steamy about this photo, is not the nudity, but the ideas it provokes... as well as the dadaistic aesthetic is achieved without manipulation of negative or print. Bruce Sterling wrote an excellent essay on this piece, "1,000 Words: Erotique Voilee" in WORLD ART in the mid-90's. (I know this also appeared in another hoity-toity art mag around the same time, probably Art Forum) |
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« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2007, 07:36:02 am » |
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What a lovely thread!
I just have to throw this Man Ray in
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I hope this picture does not offend anyone. Though part of it's appeal is the (especially for it's era) transgressive androgeny.
Far from offended - (s)he is lovely! Grace D. Palmer |
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Johnny Payphone
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« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2007, 05:03:24 am » |
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The olden days were no less naughtier, they were just far more tactful. What back-room printing press was this shoot done in? What gender does this sylph pass as in proper society, with his slicked hair and her plucked eyebrows? What opium-soaked speakeasies did they inhabit? One dasn't wonder. Though I wonder about quite a few photographs from the olden days...  |
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« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2007, 05:50:06 am » |
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Dear me, now i have to defog my window thanks to this thread! I've always harbored a secret opinion that women were more beutifull back then... Not that modern women arent as beutifull, just there seem to be less of them of that caliber in my experience, though considering how smoking they were, thats not to difficult!
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« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2007, 06:10:14 am » |
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Lord have mercy! Woah Mama! *fans self* I like the little rip in her hose on the left leg. Smokin'. Lol, moar plz? Seriously though, this thread is hot hot hot. |
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« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2007, 06:21:55 am » |
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I know that *tiny* bit more lace and a few more inches of hair would have put my brain on semi-permanent hold, but that's just me..
Curls would have been fatal.
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But better to have tripped than never danced at all."
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« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2007, 08:04:29 am » |
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something about those old photos from shorpy and other people is just better than even todays modern digital photos, todays digital seems like all the outstanding detail is in the background the old photos the detail was in the subject and they are amazingly clear
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« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2007, 01:54:34 pm » |
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Woah Mama! *fans self*
I like the little rip in her hose on the left leg. Smokin'. Lol, moar plz?
Seriously though, this thread is hot hot hot.
I'm glad I wasn't the only lady thinking that! I daresay this thread is giving me the vapours. Thank you Mr. Payphone for the steamy men - they're far better than fireman calendars! |
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Johnny Payphone
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« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2007, 03:14:51 pm » |
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I love that Tire Girl is so hot even though her clothes would hardly be considered revealing by today's standards and might even be derided as "granny". It's all about setting and feeling.  |
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dman762000
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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2007, 04:07:27 am » |
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oh look stereo-optigraph porn
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