Sweater girl Sweater girl The term "sweater girl" was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman's bustline. The sweater girl trend was not confined to Hollywood and was viewed with alarm by some. In 1949 a Pittsburgh police superintendent even singled out the sweater girl as a symptom of the moral decline of postwar youth: New, soft fabrics like cashmere and angora were being used to make sweaters. The conical shape bra, sometimes called a bullet
Sweater girl a one-reel short that showed portions of a special "Armed Forces Radio Network" recording session, Bob Hope introduces "sweater girl" Judy Garland. Before she sings "Over the Rainbow", they perform a short comic sketch, Judy asking why men are so crazy about sweater girls. Bob says he doesn't know and wisecracks, "That's one mystery I'd like to unravel". In September 1968 an obscure clerical worker named Francine Gottfried briefly attained international celebrity as "Wall Street's Sweater Girl" as large crowds of gawking men and newspaper reporters awaited her arrival at the Wall Street subway stop each morning and mobbed her