The Girls With Cotton Tails

The 1960s saw Hugh Hefner opening up his Playboy Clubs across the world. Those hostess showgirls wedged in to satin corsets and sprinkled with  bunny ears and bow ties are still seen as one of America’s lasting sex symbols.

Our Playboy blog post, Bunny Girls: British Pathé Go Inside The Playboy Paradise (Never To Return), is the most-read article we have published since setting up the British Pathé blog in 2010 by a substantial margin. We can’t imagine why! When we reblogged the article just a few days ago (see here), more of you visited the page than we imagined. So we thought that given the interest out there, instead of simply republishing one of our golden oldies, that we’d treat you to something new.

Therefore, we proudly present our new VINTAGE BUNNY GIRLS GALLERY. In the gallery you will see shots that we didn’t include in the original blog article (which you can still find via the blog’s home page) as well as links to the films from which they’re taken.

So if you’re bored at work, or simply interested in fashion and cultural history, click THIS LINK to view the gallery.

Some highlights from our new gallery. Click on the still to be taken to page one.

Or if you aren’t a fan of the gallery format, you can go straight to the films featured within it. Just click on the titles below:

Inside the Playboy Paradise (1966)

Bunnies Assist Salvation Army (1967)

Roman Polanski Weds Sharon Tate at the Playboy Club (1968)

Most Beautiful Bunny In the World Contest (1968)

Playboy Club Fashion Show (1968)

So watch the films above or visit our gallery in which Pathé take a look back at the girls with cotton tails.

 

Bunny Girls reblog

Another one of our past faves, reblogged for the benefit of our new subscribers and because we’ve just updated and redesigned our blog site.

British Pathé

Playboy Magazine and the notorious Bunny Girls charmed their way into Metro yesterday with the announcement of a new Mayfair Playboy club opening in London. We were surprised to learn that it was as early as 1966 that Hugh Hefner opened his first popular London nightspot, and so we had a cheeky browse through the British Pathé archive to see if there were any Bunnies in there and WOW:

Sexy seductive videos of 1960s Bunny Girls…

Why did nobody mention that these reels existed before? It just goes to show, there’s nothing  unworthy of a search in British Pathé’s colossal online archive. These bunnilicious archive clips are a dream:

1) Inside The Playboy Paradise (1966)

“A race called Bunnies. A Bunny is an American creation, she’s a cross between a hostess showgirl and a barmaid waitress, well versed in the art of charming the cash customers in a string of international clubs.” This 1960s newsreel ‘Inside The Playboy Paradise’ is a now…

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