OOH LA LA - THE FRENCH POSTCARD

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The Victorians are renowned for their uptight attitudes. Piano legs were covered with stockings so that the bare (wooden) legs would not be exposed and the term white meat came into vogue to avoid using the word breast. And yet Victorian men went ga-ga over risque French postcards that depicted buxom young ladies in various states of undress. These photographic representations of nude and semi-nude ladies enjoyed a huge popularity among Victorian gentlemen. Hypocrisy, thy name is Victorian. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY