VINTAGE SPORTS

27 Pins
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9y
Vintage Treadmill!
Exercise machines [1920s]
Hattie Stewart - World Female Boxing Champion 1884. Early women's boxing matches were mostly put on by travelling carnivals or exhibitions.
Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Athletic Women
"From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, women had to appear as ladylike as possible, even when doing something as traditionally masculine as working out with weights. This girl is doing a seated press with respectably heavy weight, but her high heels and helmet0like hairdo are like fig leaves preserving her femininity."
Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Athletic Women
"Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women" "There is something profoundly upsetting about a proud, confident, unrepentantly muscular woman. She risks being seen by her viewers as dangerous, alluring, odd, beautiful or, at worst, a sort of rare show. She is, in fact, a smorgasbord of mixed messages. This inability to come to grips with a strong, heavily muscled woman accounts for much of the confusion and downright hostility that often greets her.” David L. Chapman