A 1920s illustration from Le Sourire magazine by Georges Léonnec of the French proverb “En Mai quitte ce qui te plait,” which, loosely translated, means “A woman in the tree is worth two in the bush.”
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The illustration for “After the Interval,” a story in a 1957 Good Housekeeping. Art by Coby Whitmore.
An illustration by John Willie (a pseudonym of John Alexander Scott Coutts) from Bizarre magazine in the late 1940s or 1950s.
What do Young Women Dream Of? I actually don’t know. I just know I dream of them.
George Barbier (in La Vie Parisienne 1921)
Something to go wild about!
Woman. Tree. Monkey. Enoch Bolles knew how to paint a pin up.
In the 1830s, well-born Englishwomen were so bored by their constrained lives and the claustrophobic morality of the day that they started an underground society devoted to archery dueling. Since they had no experience with the sport, they soon found it rather boring because they could rarely hit each other. They decreased the distance in stages, continuing all the while to miss most of the time, until, incredibly, they got to the point where they fired from point blank range at each other’s necks, as shown here, which finally got them the thrills they sought.
