She’s Talented With Tassels

At some times in some places, strippers and burlesque dancers were prohibited by law from showing their nipples. Of this necessity, they often constructed a virtue: wearing pasties with tassels, and doing things with the tassels that were sure to delight and astound male audiences.

Illustration is from the April 1963 issue of Striparama magazine.

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This illustration is from the 1963 publication Black Stocking Parade:

Of course the legendary standard of skill with the pasty-attached tassels is the ability to get them rotating in opposite directions, which may or may not be suggested by this unmoving drawing. But my eye is drawn elsewhere; I confess to wondering exactly where and how the rear “tail tassel” is affixed.