The Fascist weave of Men's and Women's 1940's fashion.

The fascism of forties politics and war voiced itself in the fetishment of mens and womens clothes.
The pared tencil coutoure of a man's suit for example.
The Pin stripe can be so regarded as a martiallised jail bar, the pegs pleats, razor cut as a Sabre or a rifle fusillade, all promoting a discipline of thought, productivity and process.
Women's attire also bespoke of the same rigidity.
The lingerie particularly.
In fact acting as weapons of mass sexual destruction.
The Girdle, a Maginot line of negotiation,
The brassiere as an warhead
Hosiery, adorning the gam too as a missile.
Its' top circle halo can be so viewed as a ring explosion of that of an atom bomb.
Hosiery itself a sensual invidious  totem, a passageway of death, as a man is lured along its highway, to be eventually succumbed into the billow clouds of a woman's 'underneath'.




(C) JIMMY VARGAS...2010
Photo by Robert Taylor / Jimmy Vargas, from his 'Torchin at Tallulahs' multi media dvd. 
Out now on Research Publications.

JIMMY VARGAS ..."THE BIRTH OF A FORTIES FETISH MINX""

You are birthed from my  Zippo lighter, a film cel of screen goddess Joan Bennett, and the gossamer web of nineteen forties holy hosiery.

I gave you life, I gave you your name, my Natassia Minx

Sending you out to skirt Los Angeles at twilight, a vampirella in her funereal mourning suit.
Performing a serendipitous striptease, you discard your snake gloves, Schiaparelli serge skirt, Pink Venus girdle and satana stockings on the doorstep of Hollywood's sub-consciouness.

And when you have drawn from them all that you need, you will come back to poppa, my diabolical little minx.

(C) JIMMY VARGAS 2005/ 2010

From the Jimmy Vargas' Book / DVD... "Torchin' at Tallulah's"
Photo by JIMMY VARGAS / ROBERT TAYLOR