don’t bust the bust

Yvonne d’Angers and the Golden Gate Bridge

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The headline for this article is just too fun: “Being a Female, Escaping the Squeeze” (image via Newspapers.com)

A famous Diane Arbus photograph brings us inside Yvonne’s dressing room: a cozy, bedroom-like space of plush carpet, velvet robes and leopard-print fabrics. A fan plugged into the wall, a wine glass forgotten on the dresser. Yvonne stares at the camera seductively, her eyes as bright as the tan line outlining her world-famous cleavage.