Peri/od/ical: Bizarre magazine | John Willie / Holly Anna Faram, 1946-59
“Bizarre. The magazine for pleasant optimists who frown on convention. The magazine of fashions and fantasies fantastic! Innumerable journals deal with ideas for the majority. Must all sheeplike follow in their wake? Bizarre is for those who have the courage of their own convictions. Conservative? —Old fashioned? —Not by any means! Where does a complete circle begin or end? And doesn’t fashion move in a circle? Futuristic? Not even that—there is nothing new in fashion, it is only for the application of new materials—new ornaments—a new process of making—coupled with the taste and ability to create the unusual and unorthodox to the trend of the moment.”
Bizarre no. 3, 1946
Bizarre #10 Bizarre #10
Bettie Page Bizarre #14
Bizarre #13 Bizarre #17
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“I’ve tried a corset on myself and it was nothing else but damned uncomfortable. It gives a women a beautiful shape which I like but I shall get double pleasure out of using it as an ‘instrument of correction’…I don’t like extreme cruelty, I simply apply as much as is needed to correct disobedience.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA
X-Ray Spex / Oh Bondage! Up Yours! / 1977
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