After
years of watching Golden Age movies, I still couldn’t define what a pin up girl
was on my own. But as of today, that was about to change.
According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, a pin up girl is defined
as “a woman whose glamorous qualities make her a suitable subject of a
photograph for pinning up on an admirer’s wall” (894). The phrase pin up girl
was coined in 1941 and in 2015 isn’t an everyday term.
Because a pin up girl can be anyone!
We are all glamorous in our own way; we all have unique qualities that people
admire. Right now we admire ourselves and take our own pictures. Some pin ups
are single, have full time jobs and families.
Pop culture has changed and pin ups
have changed too. I’ve always believed that as women we should love ourselves
exactly as we are and find a way, everyday, to highlight our unique features.
Still, there are questions that remain unanswered.
What traditions should pin ups
embrace from The Golden Age? What traditions should Modern Day Pin Ups leave
behind? That’s what we’re here to discover. And these are the Confessions of a
Modern Day Pin Up.
