Playmates Revisited • 1955

Playmates Revisited • 1955Herewith, another installment in our Tenth Anniversary Year reprise of Playmates past. Come December, we will publish — in a Readers' Choice pictorial — the ten most popular Playboy dolls of the decade based upon reader reaction. Our second year of publication included a pair of important Playmate milestones: February 1955 marked the first Playboy appearance of the then-unknown Texas beauty, Jayne Mansfield; 1955 also witnessed the beginning of the "girl-next-door&...