BETTIE PAGE SOUVENIR PINBACK BUTTON PIN-UPS BETTY DOING THE TWIST!

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BETTIE PAGE
SOUVENIR BUTTON PINBACK!
A Fabulous Warehouse Find!
Fans of Bettie Page will want to show off these pins featuring Irving Klaw's famous photograph of a young, willing model doing the Twist.
Bettie Mae Page was born April 22, 1923, the 2nd of Walter and Edna Page’s six children. Bettie grew into a lovely, bright teenager who learned to cook and sew at local community centers. She graduated as a straight A student, 2nd in her high school graduation class, and won a 0 scholarship to Nashville's George Peabody College where she earned her BA degree in 1944. Despite her love of theater arts, she first chose the more practical career of teaching. Bettie soon found her boy students uncontrollable and promptly left teaching for secretarial work.
Bettie was in New York City and supporting herself as a secretary when in 1950, while walking along Coney Island shore, Bettie was approached by a police officer and amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs. He started Bettie's pinup portfolio. Bettie soon became a popular "camera club" model with her naughty-but-nice "girl next door" looks and lack of inhibition. She reportedly posed for 20,000 photos —often in her home-sewn bikinis and lingerie.
While Bettie was wrestling with her personal demons and being treated for her violent mood swings in the 1980s, a cult following was building around her old 1950s (public domain) pinup shots. Coffee table books, Bettie retrospectives and The Betty Pages fanzine caught on with a new generation —and young women were now dyeing their hair black and wearing bangs to emulate Bettie's sexy, confidant style. By the early 1990s, The Bettie Page revival was now a cultural phenomenon.
Bettie Page died on Thursday, December 11, 2008 at age 85 in Los Angeles.
This Bettie Page pin measures 2.75 x 1.75 inches and is in new condition.
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