Bettie Page Reveals All Page #6

She had a high IQ.

And had a great range of

things that interested her.

I used to make a lot of my clothes.

I made all my bikinis,

most of my lingerie.

I enjoyed making them.

Bettie used to design stuff.

She could have made a fortune.

'Cause she had an eye for

it, she knew what was sexy.

Bikinis were never heard of on

the beaches in this country.

Don't know what the

wild waves are saying,

but the gals are talking about the

latest thing in swimming attire.

A suit with a built in girdle.

I made them real skimpy.

It was considered very risqu.

One of the jobs I had in New York

was with a couple down

in Greenwich Village.

Well, they had me bring

every one of my costumes,

especially all my bikinis.

And I wondered why they had me

change costumes so many times.

And then they had taken my designs

from the pictures they'd took of me

and had them manufactured

under my name

and selling them as "Bettie

Page's Bikinis" now.

I should have sued them or something,

but I didn't do anything about it.

The first bona fide

commercial work I did

was for Robert

Harrison's magazines.

You know, he had five

or six girly books.

Wink, Titter, Flirt, Beauty Parade.

They had four or five

writers in the back room

that made up all kinds of crazy

things we had to act out.

But one thing I didn't like and

none of the other girls did either,

Robert Harrison insisted

that our breasts be taped.

He was a nut about the cleavage.

I'd have to hold my

breasts together,

and they put a great big

thick two-inches wide tape,

all the way across.

I hated that.

Mr. Harrison said, "Bettie,

I want you to represent

my magazines at the artists ball."

They have a contest

for the best costume.

And guess what I was wearing?

Just two telephone dials, one

over this breast, one over this,

and a suggestion box,

and black net stockings

up to the waist,

and that was it, and

I won it that year,

and I got a whole set

of Revere kitchen ware.

Estes Kefauver of the Senate

crime investigation fame

brings the Democratic

political pot to boil

by announcing his candidacy for

the presidential nomination.

Senator Estes Kefauver.

He's from my home state, you know.

He was trying to drum up votes,

and get the public on his side,

by going after juvenile

delinquency and pornography.

What I expected, having

served in World War II,

which I thought was a fight

for democracy and liberation,

what I expected after

World War II was

something like what I perceived

as the "Roaring '20s" was like

after World War I,

a huge celebration.

And what we actually

got was repression.

Repression on several fronts,

it was social and

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