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    i just started watching a doco about betty paige and burlesque...and i turned it off after 2 minuets of seeing betty 'perform' WTF?!

    HOW did this chick get so famous and become such a huge cult classic?? she looks like a dude in the face and her hair looked like a wig,seriously, it was afro as knotty, she has a man tummy, and dances weird as hell.

    sure, i respect her for being so braven for the times, but other then that,what has she got? really?

    i just dont see it.

    maybe i should watch the whole dvd, but her performance is so damn boring.

    even in these pics shes not hot.

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    she wasn't coined as a dancer. She was one of the first "fetish" models etc. She use to take part in camera clubs .

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    oh.

    *redface*

    weird that she seems to be the basis for a doco about early stripping then.lol.

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    I believe she did some film segments called "Tease-O-Rama" which puts her into the stripper category. She also did film shorts of girl on girl spanking and mischief.

    For her day she was something else. America was a freakishly repressed place in the 1950's. Hell, it still is!!!

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    You have to take into consideration what was available at the time, photo-wise. A bikini was pretty risque. I know a lot of folks didn't like it, but check out the recent movie "The Notorious Bettie Page" for a bit more insight into her, albeit fictionalized.
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    watch the whole thing, and then maybe you won't be so confused! she was mainly a fetish model

    this is during a time in our history where no woman was allowed to show ANY vagina in any photographs whatsoever, it was completely illegal, and fetish work that she did was also (i think its safe to say) basically illegal due to its "perverse" nature (spanking, very "unusual shoes", bondage, ties, gags, etc...)

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    ps: and i TOTALLY disagree with you about her not being hot. she was a total minx =D

    the retro girl looks totally does it for me, the classic "naughty but nice" sex appeal

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    I think she was amazing and sexy as hell. The pics on that site are very hot, I don't understand why you don't think so. Seriously, look at this, how can you say she wasn't sexy? And she was one of the first models to do this sort of work. I find her fascinating.







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    Quote Originally Posted by manchester View Post
    ps: and i TOTALLY disagree with you about her not being hot. she was a total minx =D

    the retro girl looks totally does it for me, the classic "naughty but nice" sex appeal
    I agree! I think that because she's atypical of the stereotypical "hot" look these days lots of people don't think she's hot. Its amazing how much tan and died blonde hair can do for a girl these days. I think she was beautiful.

    I also think that we tend to forget how repressed society was sexually back in the day. Like another poster said, The Notorious Betty Paige is good to see. It'll help you understand the way society viewed her in those days. She even went ON TRIAL for the stuff you think wasn't so risque'

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    Yeah.. it was TeaseORama that have people confusing her with stripping. I've seen TeaseORama... i like it. Not everyone's cup of tea yet that was stripping back in the day (and now regarded as burlesque).

    She was a fetish model (or adult/glamour model) not really a stripper.

    I can see her appeal. It wasn't always all about being thin, fake tits, tanned and all that (nothing against you mermaidnz as you know i you know that just a generalised comment) t be considered beautiful.


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    People I say I look like her.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    People I say I look like her.
    You don't think that's a compliment? Bettie Page is regarded as a sex symbol. Mere mention of her name makes many men drool.
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    I really like her...everyone likes what they like *shrug*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andygirl View Post
    You don't think that's a compliment? Bettie Page is regarded as a sex symbol. Mere mention of her name makes many men drool.
    I was saying to what mermaid said. She was saying how ugly paige was and I was saying butbut.. people say I look like her ... like sadface over what she said.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    I was saying to what mermaid said. She was saying how ugly paige was and I was saying butbut.. people say I look like her ... like sadface over what she said.
    Yes, but most people like her, thus her enormous cult fandom. Do you have Bettie bangs? It seems like people will say you look like someone over the smallest similarities. I've gotten so many odd comparisons over the years, and most of the time it has to do with hair or some other changeable thing like that.
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    L, ive seen your photos! imo, you look nothing like her!! maybe its the black hair that make peopel associate you with her?

    to me she has a dudes face. im sure she was sexy, but i honestly cant see her beauty. dita von teese...now thats a whole other story!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andygirl View Post
    Yes, but most people like her, thus her enormous cult fandom. Do you have Bettie bangs? It seems like people will say you look like someone over the smallest similarities. I've gotten so many odd comparisons over the years, and most of the time it has to do with hair or some other changeable thing like that.
    Nope. I just have black hair and pale skin. So I'm betty paige, dita con teese... etc. It's annoying.

    http://morriganslayde.com/pinup/morrigan%206.jpg

    I suppose I SORTA look like her here.. but this is the best I get...

    but I still get the comment a lot... wteff?


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    ohhh see, i LOVE that photo! but to me , its more dita.

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    Either way, I think they're both pretty. While I think it's a compliment people refer to me as either one, I also get annoyed with it. I can never be ME, I have to be someone else...*trying to get back on topic - sorry* but they are both sexual revolutionists and beautiful in their own ways, so I understand where the comment stems from.

    But yeah, the stripper thing... weird.


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    Lysondra,

    may I just tell you that I think you are very gorgeous?

    Remember when you had that pic of you in glasses and jeans, and you bet your boyfriend that you couldn't get 1000 views in some period of time?

    I just want to tell you that I clicked on it over and over again because I just thought you were so super hot.

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    Aww, I remember that. That's the sweetest thing to say ever.. and omg that is the CUTEST fricken smiley on this whole message board, hands down!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    People I say I look like her.
    You look like your gorgeous self, but with the good fortune to pull off a convincing pinup-girl look too (verrrry convincing - oo lala!) Count yourself lucky...

    Drat I still haven't seen that Betty Paige bio-pic

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    She makes me get a girl boner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    Nope. I just have black hair and pale skin. So I'm betty paige, dita con teese... etc. It's annoying.

    http://morriganslayde.com/pinup/morrigan%206.jpg

    I suppose I SORTA look like her here.. but this is the best I get...

    but I still get the comment a lot... wteff?
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    I get 'Bettie Page' a lot in my cheetah print outfit. It's a little halter top and bootie shorts. "ZOMG Bettie Page!" I got dances from many an older man employing that. However, my hair is not cropped like Bettie's, nor do I have bangs. *shrugs*

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