The Vargas Girl

The Vargas GirlMore Commercial Artists than you can shake a No. 6 brush at have set themselves the task of lauding the American female at the drawing board – to the everlasting delight of the American male. Men's tastes change, however – in architecture, theatre, the gin-to-vermouth ratio of a Martini, and especially in women. The be-bustled serenity of Charles Dana Gibson's Gibson Girl, everybody's sweetheart during pre-World War I days, bowed to John Held, Jr.'s baby-faced, dynamite-hipped, ro...