February 11th, 2011 -- by Bacchus
Electric Breast Toning
This looks like something I’d expect to find over at Dr. Faustus’s chambers of Erotic Mad Science, but according to Flying Cat where I actually found it, it’s an illustration from a 1925 French magazine:
I’ve got know way of knowing how fanciful it might be, but it looks very much like a full luxury salon treatment in progress. I wonder if miracle electric breast toning zap treatments were actually being sold to the finest Parisian ladies in 1925?
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I can’t even imagine why they thought that would work. I’d take all those other spa treatments though. :)
Mani-,pedi-,under arm wax,netherwhere wax,medium voltage boob zap and hypnosis (“you will also purchase the additional exfoliation package…”). What’s odd about this pict..ohhh..that floral upholstery next to the battery is SOOO 1920s!
Ha! Now that is mad science-y. Though I confess what came to mind immediately on seeing this (especially with the somewhat distressing caption “Il faut souffrir pour être belle”) was a lyric from Earth Girls are Easy:
Your beauty’s fresh and wholesome, but science has a cure!
The natural look is nowhere. Your hairdresser knows for sure!
You’ve gotta learn the art of teasing, change your repertoire!
All you need’s a little faith and a see-through push-up bra!
I was going to post a comment about how in the modern age, this device would be marketed as “The Boob Zapper”, but Commenter QueenB sort of stole my thunder…
re the boob zapper
The device shown appears too scientificly plausible to be just a figment of artistic imagination… The most likely way to get high voltage low current pulses back in 1920 (similar to those provided by a Tens machine today) would be with mains current – the cord disappearing to the lower right, a pair of interwound coils (the black cylinder pictured) and a vibrating switch contact to interupt the current to the coil (as was used in old door bell chimes and telephone bells) With a suitable number of turns on the two coils, this arrangement would give a continuous train of tingly pulses at the frequency of the switch arrangement.
I believe the depiction is of such an actual device which would work – just as a tens machine does today – with the electrical pulses causing muscle twitches which are supposed to tone and slim.
BTW the caption is a very well known French saying made famous (if not authored) by Colette (1873 -1954) a flamboyant writer and personality. Il faut souffir pour etre belle – It is necessary to suffer to be (as in appear) beautiful. True today as then…
Sorry, Dr Whiplash. It just seemed right. We can chalk it up to “great minds think(ing) alike” and I’ll send you a packet of thunder as an apology. (Wouldn’t that be nifty if I really could!)
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