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Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. One of the most iconic symbols of the Playboy Club was its waitstaff: a throng of women known, and dressed, as Bunnies. Much like the clubs themselves, the magazine whose name they shared, and the man who created all of it, the outfits worn by the Playboy Bunnies were a blend of provocative and old-fashioned.
The rabbit became a Bunny, and an icon was born and quickly patented —a first for a service uniform. The first prototype—a satin one-piece worn over a prefab Merry Widow corset and paired with rabbit ears and a fluffy tail—looked too much like a bathing suit.
A few snips of the scissors raised the leg opening, elongating the legs, accentuating the crotch, and removing any resemblance to swimwear. A rosette name tag at the right hipbone and dyed-to-match satin pumps completed the outfit. In reality, it was pretty tame—a place for flirting at most. So were the Bunnies. Clubs multiplied like rabbits; eventually, there would be more than 30 Playboy-branded clubs worldwide, in addition to casinos and resorts. The suit made the Bunny, not the other way around.
While you might not notice the logo on the first glance at any given Playboy magazine, it is indeed there. An ongoing joke for the Playboy staff was to hide the logo somewhere on the cover of each magazine, and it was a tradition that stuck. In fact, selling products that featured the Playboy logo has and continues to be a major source of income for the company.
The unmistakable black rabbit could be found on everything from lighters to t-shirts, serving as a testament to just how much good a great logo can do for a business. In the s the Playboy logo was even adopted as the military aircraft insignia for the Navy VX-4 fighter-evaluation squadron.
Not limited to a for-profit enterprise, the Playboy logo made its mark on charitable causes as well. In December , Hugh Hefner published the very first edition of Playboy.
Within a matter of weeks, the magazine had sold over 50, copies. Interestingly enough, though, Monroe never actually signed a contract to appear in the magazine. Before Marylin Monroe became a household name, she was a struggling actress in desperate need of cash. To earn a little money, she posed nude in for photographer Tom Kelley. By , Monroe was one of the most famous actresses in all of Hollywood.
At the time, the first edition of Playboy was a truly groundbreaking entrance into the market, bringing controversial, sexual topics and photographs into center stage for the first time in American history. As history now shows, though, the first edition of Playboy was published at the perfect time, and Hugh Hefner was able to both ride and help usher in a wave of sexual liberation that would make Playboy one of the most successful publications of all time.
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, , in Chicago, Illinois. There, he was raised along with his younger brother by his parents Glenn and Grace Hefner, who were reportedly fairly strict Methodists. At an early age, Hugh Hefner demonstrated an exceptional IQ of , but his genius-level intelligence only translated into modest academic success. In high school, Hugh Hefner founded a school newspaper as well as his own comic series he called School Daze. Bunnies, who were chosen after a series of auditions, were designated roles — so they could be a Door Bunny, a Cigarette Bunny, a Floor Bunny or a Playmate Bunny.
Every Bunny went through a strict training regime and had to be able to identify brands of liquor and know how to garnish 20 cocktails. Hugh was famed for affairs a string of beautiful women, but it was a 'devastating' betrayal by his first wife that led to his Playboy lifestyle.
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