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Joan Crawford Belly Button Dancer

Winter Garden, New York
May 1924 JC2450

Costume
   Bandeau and sash miniskirt.

   TML. N-1. Armpit. Bare feet.

Actions
   A young Joan Crawford has found employment dancing in a musical review in New York (1). She poses on a dance stage (2).

Commentary
   Bare arms, bare belly and bare legs--this costume is more brief that most bikinis will be 25 years from now. Once again, the theater presages the bikini, and Crawford's belly will stay bare in that venue (e.g., JC3310), but not on the beach (JC2750).


Source
   Photo by De Mirjian Studios. Innocent Eyes at the Winter Garden, New York, in Red Pepper, c.1924. Source is joancrawfordbest.com, downloaded 2008. 2 pictures.
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