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Look what she's using her cross-zip motorcycle jacket for...

BobJ

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What a shame she had to use it for a welding jacket. It must have worked though - check out the collar and lapels - that was some pretty thick leather.

I wonder if she ever appreciated that awesome sleeve creasing. ;)

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Guppy

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What a shame she had to use it for a welding jacket. It must have worked though - check out the collar and lapels - that was some pretty thick leather.

I wonder if she ever appreciated that awesome sleeve creasing. ;)

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GHT

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I'm not looking at the leather. Those eyes. That smile. Beautiful.
The photo looks dated by the creases, maybe it goes back to WW2 when the ladies worked in factories. She is the best looking welder that I have ever seen. For connoisseurs of WW2 pilot jackets you might like Nancy Love. She's the American pilot in the leather jacket. The other lady is Maureen Dunlop, she flew every type of aircraft from the factories to the airfields during WW2 and set many a heart a flutter in the process. There's a photo of Maureen in her flying jacket somewhere, but I just can't find it. No matter, her bewitching smile makes for a good Halloween pin up.
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Great photo. I think there is a colourised version of it out there somewhere? As for the seriously brave and skilled ladies that flew the new planes to their bases. They were probably better pilots than most men. They had to fly every type of plane, unarmed and at night. I learned recently the Germans called them ‘The Night Witches’ and really hated but admired them too.
 

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Benny Holiday

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There could have been no war effort without the hard work of untold numbers of women who gave their all in factories churning out weapons, ammunition, automotive and aeroplane parts, parachutes, machinery, and electronics, rivetting, welding, hammering, and assembling. And the women's land army, and the pilots, and those who served in the various corps as radar plotters, mechanics, telegraphists, clerks, and so on. Most of them wondering all the while if fathers, brothers, sons and sweethearts were alive or wounded, missing or dead.

And still, today here in Australia more than seventy years later , women have to fight for equal pay for doing the same job as a man. What a bloody disgrace.

Anyway, awesome photos.
 

GHT

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Researching my car, I came across a great deal of information and details titled: MG at War. It made me realise the enormous logistical problem we had as a nation. Just taking MG as a microcosm, they had to strip the factory of it's peacetime production, along with it's spares, stores, customer records, employee records and, and, and.
There does seem to be some sensitivity about the ladies working there being photographed. The first two photos show some of the products that MG were producing. The second two photos show car production resuming, in those shots you see many of the ladies who stayed on after the war. It was also painful to learn that they were making up the shortfall due to the MG workers who, having been conscripted into the armed forces, had paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
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Big J

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Wow! She's a looker!
One thing I love about the golden era is that the 'ideal' of feminine beauty was appreciably more curvy than it is today.
The images of these curvy ideals immortalized in 'nose art' is definitely a major attraction of the era.
However, I always found it impossible to imagine my grandmother aiming for that kind of look, despite the fact that it must have been a popular look to try for with young ladies of the time, in much the same way my grandfather always did his 'matinee pose' for photos when he was young.
For what it's worth, I think the 'men's jacket' is likely just factory protective equipment issued to her. She wears it well though. Hot stuff indeed.
 
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One thing I love about the golden era is that the 'ideal' of feminine beauty was appreciably more curvy than it is today.

Heh, I'm not so sure about that considering who is the absolute ideal of feminine beauty today. General public has never wanted curvy more than today and even the curviest chick from the golden era ain't got a thing on the aforementioned celebrity. Even though the aforementioned celebrity is mostly a triumph of science considering she's still alive. . .
 

Big J

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@Monitor, you're gonna have to throw me a bone here, who are you talking about? I'm culturally isolated out here in Japan.
Is it a porn star I should know?
 
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@Monitor, you're gonna have to throw me a bone here, who are you talking about? I'm culturally isolated out here in Japan.
Is it a porn star I should know?

Kim K mainly but there are so many others now, Nicki Minaj and... Uh... I don't know their names to be honest. But they're all curvier than anyone ever before.
 

Edward

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I suspect Monitor is talking about the Kardashian woman. Porn star? Sort of. She rose to fame largely off the back of a "leaked" sex tape she made with an ex, in which she was ridiculously degraded.


Great photo. I think there is a colourised version of it out there somewhere? As for the seriously brave and skilled ladies that flew the new planes to their bases. They were probably better pilots than most men. They had to fly every type of plane, unarmed and at night. I learned recently the Germans called them ‘The Night Witches’ and really hated but admired them too.


I often wonder how the course of the war might have differed had the West taken the same approach to gender as the Soviets, and put their best pilots out there in combat even if they were women. I think it's at least plausible there might have been fewer casualties, or at least the RAF would have been les up against the wall when Hitler made his first big mistake, bearing in mind that they famously had one week's supply of new pilots and equipment left when the Nazis called it off. Had hitler gain air supremacy, of cours,e nothing could have stopped Operation Sealion.
 

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