Ready for a night out on the town...

 

...but is the town ready for them?

The Quaids: Before and After

 So, quadruplets are usually defined as four children born from the same mother at the same time (generally identical in appearance). Here we have the aptly named Quaid girls taking a candid selfie on their eighteenth birthday...

...followed by the exact same four; washed, scrubbed and blow-dried for their boudoir shoot (and wearing as little as their Mom will allow). Amazing how a touch of lipstick and gloss can change your entire outlook, isn't it? :)

Open source characters; image released into the public domain under cc-zero. 

Twin Desires

And now for another a trip to AI land, where stunning blonde beauties model their black designer lingerie in the street. The original had a few anomalies (extra/missing fingers etc), but we managed to clean them up in photoshop. Will be posting more like as time permits.

Mind Control!

Yeah, the girls in these two clips are most likely payed actors, but the idea of post-hypnotic striptease is the proverbial dream come true. Both vids are filmed in the quasi-documentary style common to reality TV; apologies once more for the low resolution in the second vid.

• Hypnostrip One on Youtube 

• Hypnostrip Two on Youtube

Incomparable

Way back in the early 90s, the incomparable Monica Fraga was considered one of the most beautiful models in all of Latin America. During this classic guest appearance on (I think) Ney Gonçalves Dias, the former Brazilian Playmate agreed to take part in a body painting demonstration, which - naturally enough - required that she strip down to her lingerie before a studio audience.

Click on the "start" arrow to begin. You may need to click more than once.

 

As far as I can tell, Ney Gonçalves Dias - ostensibly a 'news & views' program - featured regular stripteases by well-know female celebrities. During the show's closing credits, the girls would dance before the cameras in their bare knickers, apparently their sole reason for being on the show in the first place. I managed to dig up a few examples on youtube; unfortunately, the resolution leaves a little to be desired (some of the VHS sources are nearly thirty years old).

Monica Fraga at 13.00.

Striptease at 4.15.

Very grainy, but watch until end credits.

Extremely low res; sorry...

Brazilian Heritage

More Baile de la seducción from Vamos Con Todo, featuring the lovely Paloma Fiuza (circa 2010). In common with Kathyrn Arbenz, she seems to have been a regular on Ecuadorian television and variety shows.

Ms Fuiza appears to have been a popular Brazilian dancer, appearing on a number of shows during the mid-2000s. As a general rule, she performed in beachwear or casuals, but would occasionally strip down to her lingerie (as in this clip). A classically trained ballerina, she wasn't adverse to revealing her talents before a studio audience (a fact for which we are eternally grateful).

Loiras vs Morenas

You gotta hand it to those ingenious Brazilians; nobody else could have come up with a show that enticed pretty young women to shed their clothing in public (OK, there's also the Russians, the French, the Italians and the Japanese, but you get my point).

The program in question was Festa DoMallandro ("Mallandros Party"), and the segment portrayed above was  Loiras vs Morenas - "blondes vs brunettes. As the name suggests, the contestants played incredibly silly games which required them to strip down to their bras and panties, usually cheered on by a rampant audience.

Festa ran for a total of six seasons between 1997 and 2002, achieving a level of success rarely surpassed to the present day. Needless to say, the weekly stripteases undoubtedly contributed to the show's high ratings and popularity with the general public.

A similar concept turned up around the same time in Allegria Geral, which seems to have been closely patterned after Festa. The 'blondes vs brunettes' trope was particularly evident in the musical numbers, where the female cast danced in their bare knickers for several minutes at a time. If the example posted above is anything to go by, Brazilian chicas take great pride in their choreographic abilities.

 

 

(clothes-changing competition; blondes vs brunettes)

French Frolics

For those of us with a  yearning for those sentimental days of yore: here's a quaint piece of vintage ephemera from the classic gentleman's magazine, French Frills:

Ah, nostalgia...