Looking for pin-up girls

OK, most press releases tend to be boring, overly enthusiastic, full of irritating buzzwords or all of the above, but we got one recently that actually looks super neat.

Varga Bar, named after the 40’s style pin-up artist Alberto Vargas, is about to search for real Philadelphia women to pose for the first-ever 2010 Varga Bar monthly calendar.

George Anni, owner of Varga Bar, has partnered with photographer Christoper Gabello (www.christophergabello.com) to recreate the traditional pin-up girl images with a modern twist. Interested women will send 2 photos and 3 sentences answering the question “why should you be a Varga Girl?” to makemeavargagirl@gmail.com.

Ettore Salon and Spa is going to be styling all models’ hair and makeup, and wardrobe will be provided by Old City’s Smak Parlour boutique from their new lingerie line.

Interesting! So you’ve probably seen Vargas Girls before, they look like this:

The lady at the top of the post in the towel is the first one in Varga Bar’s series: Jessica, Miss January. My initial reaction was “OMG I’m totally entering this, how neat would it be to have a cheesecake portrait of myself? It would be my facebook profile photo as long as I live!” Then I was thinking… “Uh, actually, you’d be a really terrible model, and you’re kind of short, small-breasted and stubby on top of it.” Then I settled on why the hell not.

And frankly, you should settle on why the hell not too, women reading this, because seriously, why the hell not. Let’s give them a lot of different body types to choose from, because knowing the modern pin-up genre, which tends to be accepting of different shapes, they’re probably not looking for 11 identical wearing-a-sparkly-party-top-in-Old-City-type girls. I’m gonna enter, anyhow.

Learn more about Alberto Vargas, who had a neat life, here.