Sabrina 'TATTERS' Picture Page

The 'Tatters' Series

ceguah said: This one is from a 1958 Swedish Photo Year Book or some sort. This pic is already on the site in an uncut version. However my copy has no holes from old staples in the middle. It has been folded though, and that is visible in the scan. I have not cut this picture, this is how it appeared in the book. Found it in a second hand shop in the midsixties. Just tore out the page, turning my back and coughing hard to hide my doings from the shop owner…I am not exactly proud of this, and it is not (and never was) my normal behaviour when visiting stores. I put the blame on Sabrina…

Pic was accompanied by the following words (my translation): "Worship of the female bust got more and more commercial. The American pin up queens were distanced by the Italian movie stars, and after that old England took up the competition. When the British television audience chose a new favourite, young Sabrina, the genre had got an unpleasant air of disability comedy. She got even more famous when she was cherished by a crowd of people and a man stepped on the hem of her evening gown, causing it to slip off. Sabrina fainted.”

(Disability comedy is when you make fun of disabled, crippled or physically deformed people. I don’t know if there is a special expression for this in English. There is in Swedish.)

Pseudo-intellectual rubbish with the scornful attitude typical of the ”moral majority” and self-proclaimed defenders of so called good taste of the time.

From 'Bold' magazine, 1960

A publicity shoot of the 19 year old Sabrina. I assume the shoot happened in 1955, considering the earliest known copies appeared in '66' magazine). They must have been popular shots because they reappear in other magazines of later years. There must have been a lot of photographers there. I wonder what the occasion was...

Here's the full version of the pic above

The two shots above are different!

These 3 seem be flipped/resized dupes