John willie bizarre

A miscellaneous harvest from my archives of covers and pages from John Willie's ground breaking digest size fetish magazine, Bizarre published 1946 to 1959. John Willie picked up where Carlo, the illustrator of 1930s Parisian flagellation novels, left off. More about Willie here. Photo Willie borrowed from London Life magazine (see next post) Click here for the Vasta Images/Books eBay store vasta@earthlink.net

Diagram of a six inch heel. How to make the impossible possible for the average foot.

The Hobble Skirt - from The Best of Bizarre Women seem to get a craze every now and then for the most unreasonable garments. The ancient Egyptians wore a skin tight one piece frock which showed every curve and in which only the tiniest of tiny steps could be taken, so tight was it way down to the ankles. This is something that man can understand, for the more clingingly tight the frock the more it shows the figure (and that's all to the mustard) but the hobble skirt showed nothing – it…

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