Interesting...
I was browsing this website for one of my favourite stores, Retro Rebels, when I noticed in the background was this:
They've used as their background a repeat pattern of a kind of flyer...? advertising 'White girls recruited for Singapore's dens.'
Nice to be reminded of this when I'm shopping.
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It looks to me like it's not a flier, but a page from a "men's magazine" from the fifties. They tended to have "news articles" which were essentially excuses to show pictures of naked or semi-naked women. Full-frontal nudity would run afoul of the postal decency laws, so they'd compromise on stuff like that over-the-shoulder shot where you can see part of her breast. Not quite sure who decided it belonged on that site, though.
Exactly what I was thinking, because one of those women looks a lot like Bettie Page...
This is indeed an old magazine ad. That's Bettie Page on the left. She's an icon to a lot of the retro/rockabilly, which probably explains their willingness to throw this on the background.