What fashion faux pas is this "worker" committing?
As you might have gathered, that machine operator is no professional. That's Veronica Lake, the movie star known for her peekaboo hairdo.
That magnificent hairdo helped Veronica Lake land juicy roles, often as the femme fatale in mystery films who lured men to their destruction. Ironically and unintentionally, this WW2 vintage propaganda photo, circa 1943, had the effect of making Veronica Lake a femme fatale in real life.
The victims were the female machinists populating the factories during the war who wanted, understandably, to look like Veronica […]
