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About Pinup Girl Clothing:
Pinup Girl Clothing was started in 1996 by Laura Byrnes. Laura, a swing dancer, collector of Vargas Pinup Girl illustrations, lounge lizard, frequenter of underground Los Angeles bars, and photographer of the LA music and retro scene, got fed up with the constrictive nature of the magazine photography world (her old-school punk rock attitude and general disrespect for authority certanly didn't help either) and decided to pursue her lifelong interest in pinup style: 50's fashion, rockabilly revival, retro dresses, pinup girls, 50's Hollywood bombshells, and the seedy, sexy underside of it all. An FIT dropout - for photography, not fashion - Laura was in love with pinup girl style and retro fashion, but the only place one could find 50's style, at that time, was the local thrift store. Even in Los Angeles, circa 1996 - the center of the emerging retro, rockabilly, and lounge subculture - rockabilly and retro gals were limited to vintage dresses, which while fantastic, couldn't exactly be depended upon to fit right, wear well, or smell good. Laura's close friend, Jeanette Iskat, was an avid collector of vintage dresses from the 40's, 50's, and 60's, making the rounds of her favorite - and often little known - thrift stores weekly to score the most amazing vintage dresses, many from well known designers of the day. Sadly, few of these vintage dresses fit Jeanette, who towers over mere mortals at an impressive 6 foot 3. Jeanette's loss was Laura's gain - Jeanette's vintage clothing scores filled Laura's closet and constituted nearly her entire wardrobe - fantastic retro swing dresses in satins, taffeta, and brocade. Rockabilly clothing - cropped capri pants, halter tops, and high-waisted pencil skirts. These vintage dresses still hang in Laura's closet and continue to influence her retro fashion sensibility.

However, vintage clothing has its limitations. Stains, tears, and musty smells. Stitching and seams in fragile condition. The perfect retro dress - in someone else's size. The retro and rockabilly scene was growing fast, and the vintage dress pickings in thrift and vintage clothing stores was getting thin. Something had to give, and it did. Laura, and a very small handful of other rockabilly gals, started designing. One of these girls, Melanie, started a retro clothing line called Dixiefried. Dixiefried's style was purist and tailored - high waisted pencil skirts with vintage details, fitted bombshell dresses in retro fabrics. Alicia, Melanie's assistant, left Dixiefried and founded Stop Staring Clothing, which carried on the purist retro vintage tradition after Dixiefried ceased to be.

Laura's vision was different - she loved the sexy dresses worn by the Pinup Girls in Varga, Elvgren, and Petty illustrations, sexy, clingy, fantasy clothing that, in the 50's, could never have translated to a real world garment: Pinup Girl Clothing. Pinup Girl Clothing was her vision, and Pinup Girl Clothing she would design.

Pinup Girl Clothing existed as a home based business for 2 1/2 years - Laura selling her retro and rockabilly fashions from a rack of clothes hanging in her living room, custom fitting dresses for her rapidly growing customer base of retro and rockabilly gals. In 1999, after scouring the web for retro clothing, rockabilly dresses, and the like, and finding it severely lacking, Laura took Pinup Girl Clothing online with the launch of PinUpGirlClothing.com. It started small, as great things often do. The website started with 50 items, all designs made to order by Laura's team of talented seamstresses. Her customers asked for more - more dresses, more shoes, accessories - and Laura listened. Pinup Girl Clothing started to add other brands: Eldorado Club Jewelry, Classic Hardware, Steady Clothing, Lucky 13 Clothing, and EC Star Clothing were some of the earliest brand additions to Pinup Girl Clothing. Accessories from Revamp Productions, Lux De Ville, and Blue Q would follow. Leg Avenue Lingerie, Stockings, Pantyhose, and Halloween Costumes came along for the ride.

Pinup Girl Clothing continued to grow. Pinup Girl customers - swing dancers, clubgoers, rockabilly gals, and modern pinup girls - loved the ever-growing selection, fast delivery, and personalized customer service. Each Halloween, Pinup Girls customers came back to purchase Sexy Halloween Costumes for that year's Halloween bash. Each holiday season, they'd return to find that perfect retro gift for their best friend or their main squeeze. Each Valentine's day, they'd browse our unmatched selection of sexy retro lingerie. And each spring, they'd come back to find that perfect retro swimsuit, the perfect retro dress, and shoes and a bag to match.

Fast forward to 2007, and not much has changed. Laura is still designing clothing for modern, real-life pinup girls, although now she's got a full production team behind her, and her line, Pinup Couture, can be found in retro & rockabilly shops and boutiques on every continent except Antartica. Jeanette is still discovering treasures and fueling the creative engine of Pinup Girl Clothing. PinUpGirlClothing.com is known the world over as the ultimate shopping destination for retro & rockabilly clothing, shoes, and accessories. Customer Service is still top-notch, shipping is still speedy, and the selection has grown wider and wider. Customers from way back in 1999 still visit us, a fact that fills us with an equal mix of pride and appreciation. Pinup Girl Clothing has inspired its share of imitators, as great things often do. But Rockabilly gals, retro vixens, girly girls, and modern pinup girls know that there's only one place to find the best selection of cute, retro clothing, shoes, and accessories on the planet - PinUpGirlClothing.com!
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50's Inspired Retro Fashion - More Than a Passing Trend
Author: Diabla Caliente Used with permission of the author. Unauthorized reproduction is expressly prohibited.


The dresses and swimwear of the 50's are probably the most iconic and easily recognized styles of modern fashion history. Ask anyone about 50's fashion, and she can immediately identify the decade's most famous trends: The New Look - dresses with fitted bodices and full circle skirts, worn with crinolines and girdles to create a striking hourglass figure. Form fitting "Wiggle dresses" - sexy, clingy bomshell dresses that hug every curve and were destined to be associated forever with blonde bombshells such as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Cropped, straight leg capri pants and the crisp white mens' shirt tied in front, as seen on Audrey Hepburn, the 20th Century's most iconic ingenue. Bad girls in cropped denim jeans (borrowed from the boyfriends). Good girls in feminine sun dresses in bright floral prints. Gidget and Annette on the beach in their yellow polka dot bikinis and skirted one piece swimsuits. Fifty years on, and the style of the 50's is still easily distinguishable to anyone with the most minimal fashion awareness. Clothing designers have looked back to the 50's for fashion inspiration to this day, and will likely continue to do so far into the future.

The late 60's and most of the 70's saw an almost 180 degree shift from the fashion silhouettes of the 50's, a reflection, in no small part, of the disillusionment many felt when the promises of the 50's - A prosperous middle class, freedom from war, and trustworthy government - slowly fell apart. Fashion always reflects the feelings of the person wearing it, and 50's style was no exception. Still, by the early 80's, the first waves of nostalgia for the seemingly simple, carefree days of the 50's started to roll in, and before one knew it, 50's retro fashion was born.

It started with a movie and a television show: Grease on the big screen, and Happy Days in the living room. Nobody watching will ever forget the moment in Grease when Sandy sheds her Good Girl image and emerges as a force to be reckoned with in her tight capri pants, off shoulder top and killer stiletto heels. On TV, Marian appeared weekly in goregous, full skirted dresses designed to make Donna Reed proud, and Joanie ran around in her poodle skirts and cuffed jeans. And before long, retro fashions started appearing everywhere, from the haute couture catwalk to the corner discount store.

Retro Fashion generally has a short shelf life, and a look at the longevity of recent trends such as "boho" and "hippie chic" would seem to bear this out. But 50's retro fashion has been around, in one form or another, for the last thirty years. The iconic retro sundress has been reinterpreted non-stop almost since it's inception. Capri jeans came back in the 80's, went into hibernation during the Grunge revolution, but woke up again in 1996 and haven't left since. This retro style is on the verge of becoming a style staple. The basic black pencil skirt has already done so. No longer a retro anomaly, the pencil skirt has become a must-have piece in every stylish woman's wardrobe, due to its ability to integrate itself seamlessly with almost any fashion trend thrown its way.

But, the main reason that retro clothing is here to stay is the most obvious and simple one: Retro Clothing looks fantastic on girls with curves. That's not a euphemism for "big girls" - it means that retro clothing and retro dresses look best on girls who are not thin as rails. In order to fill out a retro dress, one must have hips and breasts - just a little will do. And luckily, most girls are built this way. Retro clothing not only looks fantastic on real girls with curves, but it also provides a very flattering alternative to the current fashions of the day, that in many cases require a super-slim physique.

In the retro clothing & dresses genre, a group of online clothing websites has cropped up to meet the demand for cute, retro clothing and accessories. One of the most well known retro shopping boutiques is PinUpGirlClothing.com. Launched in 1999, the Pinup Girl Clothing website offers an extraordinarily wide range of retro clothing, dresses, retro shoes, and retro accessories, from an exhaustive range of today's most popular retro brands. Pinup Girl Clothing also sells its own house brand - Pinup Couture - a line of retro dresses, retro clothing, retro swimwear, and tee shirts, in addition to many new an emerging retro brands.

"We are always on the lookout for new retro designers," says Laura Byrnes, Pinup Girl Clothing's Supreme Overlord and CEO, "I really enjoy finding new retro designers and being able to feature them on Pinup Girl Clothing. It's a small but growing scene, and I am always happy if I can give an emerging retro brand a higher level of awareness with the public. And, it helps our business too, because customers know that they can count on Pinup Girl Clothing to bring them a fresh, new range of choices whenever they visit."

So fear not - next time you see that gorgeous retro dress or slinky fitted pencil skirt, you can add it to your wardrobe knowing that the retro look is not only figure-flattering, cute, and super girly, but a fashion trend that is here to stay!