The term Sweater girl was made popular in the 1940s and
1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana
Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular
fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a cone- or bullet-shaped bra that
emphasized the woman's bustline. The term was virtually synonymous with
"pin-up girl," a popular culture trope of the Second World War
referring to the pretty girls whose pictures adorned soldiers' barracks.
The sweater girl
trend was not confined to Hollywood and was viewed with alarm by some. In 1949
a Pittsburgh police superintendent even singled out the sweater girl as a
symptom of the moral decline of postwar youth:
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