11 Hilarious Photos Depicting How Wives Should Undress in Front of their Husbands, Circa 1937
The do's (right) and don't's (left) of undressing for your husband
It’s not as if it’s a complete surprise that there may or may not be a right and wrong way for a wife to undress in front of her husband. For instance, some wives will argue it’s totally necessary back up to the bathroom if they’re nude, lest they risk giving their husbands a full moon where the sun don’t shine.
But to learn there was once a school teaching wives how to do it?
The Allen Gilbert School of Undressing once existed, apparently. And in 1937, Life magazine featured a series of photos demonstrating how wives should undress in front of their husbands in the bedroom.
Take a look at the photos (courtesy of Retronaut.co) and see if you can learn something:
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The Do's and Don't's of Undressing
The Don't is on the left. The Do is on the right, and she's none other than "ex-Burlesque stripper, Professor June St. Clair."
Ah, a Ph.D. in Undressing. Raise your hand if you think you missed your calling. -
Don't and Do
This really writes itself.
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Don't do this
Not sexy in any decade.
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Don't do this, either
When revealing a garter belt and teddy, best to smile seductively rather than scowl disdainfully, am I right, ladies?
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Do do this
Don't feel intimidated because she's so good. She's a professor, after all.
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Maybe do this
She's getting a little better.
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Definitely do this!
Smiles everyone! Smiles!
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And DEFINITELY do this!
Her focus is on the pantyhose, but your focus is a little further north, no?
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Smile, yes, but not like that
Take it down a notch, honey.
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Va-va-va-VOOM
[Cue the burlesque music]
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She really is a pro
Let's give her a hand (particularly since hers seem to be otherwise occupied).
All photos courtesy of Retronaut.co
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<3 this!! LOL
I wonder if the shoes ever come off.
Great discovery..it seems to me that they are giving a show to everyone with the drapes open and those flimsy net curtains…maybe that is part of the allure
So obviously the first “do” is “do be a curvaceous, hot blonde with sexy attire, and not a frumpy straight-lined brunette with a house-dress “sack”…..
Men don’t care how you do it as long as you’re getting naked, they love it! I just wouldn’t let him see any stained clothing articles…even if he sometimes does it. He expects you to be the model of proper etiquette until you’re both in the sack together then he desires the exact opposite! Go figure…
Hardly relevant now since no woman I know dresses in those garments anymore.
Oh my god Dennis! I love those kinds of garments! Makes me feel sexy even if no one knows but me. I’ve been married for 23 yrs and never once did a get a compliment, etc. The worst I heard was “why the hell you got that on?” I finally gave up and I consider myself still young at 55.
I remember, when I was a kid in the sixties, my parents and their friends were talking about a book that was making the rounds, called How To Strip For Your Husband.
Gosh, I wish I lived back then. Those thighs and legs are me. I wish they were considered sexy today. I would be the sexiest woman alive!!!
Judging from the photos, having two wives was considered appropriate.
It’s funny that even back then the press was doing semi-porn under the guise of hard-hitting journalism. You could buy dirty pictures and still respect yourself.
That 1930′s chick is pretty danged hot….
She brought a friend. I don’t care how they get undressed. She did it right.
How should a wife undress in front of her husband?
Often, particularly when young.
I strongly suggest that if you undress using the Don’t method, that you do it with someone else in the room. You need to have someone there to cut you free if you get a garter wrapped around your neck.
I think it would be hilarious if Meredith undressed in front of anybody. She obviously thinks pleasing a husband is so dark ages.
Those stockings aren’t pantyhose. Sheeesh!
You know, I have my doubts about this having appeared in Life Magazine in 1937. Even when I was a small child (early Sixties), Life was a magazine you could hand to the children on a rainy day and let them amuse themselves with it. My parents’ eyes would have bugged out if Life had done one of their famous photo spreads on sexy undressing for the marital bedroom, and we would have been completely grossed out. I don’t think it can have been published in Life.
Amazing! These women are not Photoshopped, you can see cellulite and true hip and leg size and they’re still so sexy and real! Why can’t be put the Photoshopped version of celebrities and model in our magazines? They’re still sexy and beautiful. Why do we have to make them into unrealistic caricatures, when the real deal is already perfect?
The comments are just has funny as the pictures!
These are funny because in that time of history showing any thing that was deliberate and sexy was a no no. I disagree with one of the posters who said that stockings weren’t pantyhose, lol no they aren’t stockings are sexy, pantyhose are needed to hold your tummy in or hide inconsistencies in the legs. More women are going back to the 50′s – 60′s era when you were FAST if you went out without a girdle, and silk was the splurge on yourself material, especially in lingerie and stockings. Retro doesn’t have to be a bad thing the past has some great clothing ideas that I am glad are coming back. They make me feel like a lady, even when I wear them just for myself.
Awesome. This photo set should be used in every junior high school sex education class.
well well well………..always go to know that even back then thin was NOT the in
KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS I found it both humorous & interesting all at the same time …..besides which u gotta fall off a chair a few times before ya get it right for any man be it boyfriend husband or even the naughty one night stand………… GO GET ‘EM GIRLS
How about respecting yourself and NOT undressing in front of your so-called lover?
These women are both natural and smoking hot… It seems today it is so rare to find a woman who is just natural, comfortably feminine and sexy.
these ladies are both pretty,but does anyone else think this is a bit ridiculous?
JS, no woman should feel self conscious about undressing in front of their man,just unzip and let it drop.be confident… you dont need to be taught.
Just starting viewing some photos, but i have difficulty in seeing the same because of low bandwidth allocation, and i always having had episodes of refresh and re-start more often. But i agree that some photos need to be studied and maybe emulated by married people madly in love with each other.
Interesting but irrelevant…
Where’s the 1937 Chippendales version for women?