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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Sopas: Love the Smiling Irishman's lot, and love that fur-covered T-bird. And the model--I am continually amazed by the style of brassieres in the fifties--how men got women to display their goods so weirdly, and then designed car bumpers the same way, up and OUT, watch out, I'm comin' through!
And so the model reminded me of Dagmar, who bequeathed her name to the bumpers...
 LAPL
Per the LAPL: "Looking every inch a television star, Dagmar enjoys an evening at Ciro's with her husband, Dan Dayton
(left); Lorraine Cugat (second from right), estranged wife of Bandleader Xavier Cugat, and her escort, Gould Morrison.
Dagmar, who is big on TV in the east, flew out here to spend some time with her husband." |
And, GaylordWilshire,
your post reminded me of this classic shot, in which Sophia Loren gazes disapprovingly into Jayne Mansfields bra-less decolletage. 1957, Romanoff's Restaurant, Beverly Hills. Looks like the meal hadn't started yet - it must have been one
slow dinner!
Public Domain
Miss Mansfield was killed in an auto accident near Biloxi, Mississippi in 1967. Her car crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed because of a truck that was spraying mosquito fogger.