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TSHIRT_1291 Officially Licensed Bettie Page Merchandise
Bettie Page Lady Pin-up Girls T-Shirt
Starting in 1952, she posed for photographer Irving Klaw for mail-order photographs with pin-up, bondage or sadomasochistic themes, making her the first famous bondage model.
Klaw also used Page in dozens of short black-and-white 16mm "specialty" films.
These silent featurettes showed women clad in lingerie and high heels acting out fetishistic scenarios of abduction, domination, and slave-training with bondage, spanking, and elaborate leather costumes and restraints.
Page alternated between playing a stern dominatrix and a helpless victim bound hand and foot.
Klaw also produced a line of still photos taken during these sessions. Some have become iconic images, such as his highest-selling photo of Page gagged and bound in a web of ropes from the Leopard Bikini Bound film.
Although these underground features had the same crude style and clandestine distribution as the pornographic "stag" films of the time, Klaw's all-female films (and still photos) never featured any nudity or sexual content.
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