She broke the rules while wearing a corset. She plowed through the pop culture blonde bombshell stereotype like a Mack Truck. Now thousands of girls run around wearing her bangs, sporting halter tops and cuffed jeans, while tattoos of her curvaceous body and impish smile peek out from under their long, sleek hair. Never a legend in the traditional sense, but a legend just the same.
Rest well, Ms. Page.
Hell and Wheels 
December 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I went back and read some biographies on Bettie and it’s said that she suffered from schizophrenia and was in and out of mental institutions for much her adult life. Man that’s hard. But I guess her later years were more peaceful.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Sqt — She dropped out of public view, (re)discovered Christianity, and tried to live a normal life. I guess she got the guilt, at some point.Christina — I love that innocent smile, the one that doesn’t go any further than her lips.Miladysa — You’re welcome.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Thank you for introducing her to me.RIP Betty!
December 17th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Wow. I heard she lived her later years pretty mysteriously. She is quite the doll.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I never realized she was still alive. I guess I always thought that such a glamorous, yet brazen woman wouldn’t fade away quietly.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Rick — She was Bettie Page, former pinup/fetish model from the fifties whose controversial allure once sparked a Senate committee investigation. For a while she was the embodiment of wicked desire, the symbol of everything a woman wasn’t “supposed” to be, and then she disappeared from the limelight. But, even now, after she has wholly disappeared from the world, her influence remains strong within the counter-culture set where she is revered as an icon of fashion, beauty, and rule-breaking.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I’m not even sure who she is or was, but what a lovely tribute.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Charles — It’s a good one. She was something else, wasn’t she?Laughingwolf — Yeah. I’m sad, too.Steve — It’s all in my master plan to break you.Lana — Many nice, good people will put up posts like this for you. One drooling dude in a kilt, a Union Jack bikini top and sparkly gold platform fishbowl boots will put it up for me.
December 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
A true classic. And time marches on…Who will put up posts like this for us, I wonder?
December 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Ouch. From my highest point yesterday to my lowest point today, you’re certainly running me through the range of emotions. Ouch.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
rip 😦
December 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The picture you posted is my favorite one of her.