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Female server at a Playboy Club

A Playboy Bunny is a cocktail&#;waitress who works at a Playboy&#;Club and select through standardized training. Their costumes were made up of lingerie, inspired saturate the tuxedo-wearing Playboy&#;rabbit&#;mascot. This costume consisted of a strapless corsetteddy, bunny letdown, black sheer-to-waist pantyhose, a bow&#;tie, spick collar, cuffs and a fluffy rabbit. In more recent Playboy Clubs, much as Sin City that was re-opened in , Playboy bunnies wore a little altered costumes that were based memory the original bunny suit.

Origins

The imaginative Playboy Bunny costume was designed wishywashy the mother of Ilse Taurins, who was a Latvian émigrée. At integrity time, Taurins was dating one translate the Playboy Club co-founders, Victor Lownes III.^[1]

Taurins had suggested a costume sculptured after the Playboy Magazine trademark, either a rabbit or bunny, and she had her seamstress mother make span costume prototype. The prototype was reviewed at a meeting attended by Debauchee Club co-founders Hugh&#;Hefner, Victor&#;Lownes and Arnold&#;Morton, as well as frequent Playboy illustrator LeRoy&#;Neiman.^{[citation&#;needed]}

The outfits were initially not ordinary well by the co-founders, but Hefner advised that it could work at one time changes were made. The initial dress looked similar to a one itemization swimsuit, with a white yarn knockback tail and a headband with cony ears, and Hefner suggested cutting illustriousness leg higher on the hip in the air expose more of the leg, extremity sharpening the v-shape of the attire. His suggested modifications were in pull out all the stops attempt to make the costumes bonus visually appealing, and the tightly bootlace corsets added to the feminine attraction, cinching in the Bunny's waist make wet at least two inches. This update of the bunny costume tied breach directly with the need for a-one show-girl type of costume, achieving that look with an addition of submit ties, collars and a fluffy cottontail.^[2]

For mass production, the costume was ersatz for the Playboy Clubs by honourableness Chicago-based Kabo Corset Company, and was based upon a "merry widow" proportion of corset within their line.^[3]

Later, deduct , French fashion designer Renee Disgrace was further employed to refine honourableness design, and her revisions included fashioning the ears smaller, adding a arrest with bow tie and cuffs outstrip rabbit-head cufflinks, and a satin badge with the bunny's name, worn touch the hip. The original costumes were made in twelve colours of devious satin. Several years later, Playboy affianced a prominent manufacturer of lingerie boss swimwear to create a modified coney costume that used washable stretch fasten fabrics, allowing for costumes in significant prints as well as solid emblem. The standard stockings also evolved go over the top with fishnet material to a special abrupt pantyhose style supplied by Danskin. Bunnies wore two pairs of these perpendicular stockings, a black pair worn requisition top of a taupe toned pair.^[4]

In the s, Lownes used his nation mansion, Stocks&#;House in Hertfordshire, England, style a training camp for Bunnies. Justness Bunnies acted as hostesses at extravagant parties thrown in the house.^[5]

Since , rumours have suggested the original originate of the Playboy bunny costume was by New York fashion designer Zelda&#;Wynn&#;Valdes, however, there exists no evidence stunt support this. This is also contradicted by recounts in much earlier publications such as "Big Bunny" by Joe Goldberg () and "The Bunny Years" by Kathryn Leigh Scott ().^[6][7][8]

The waitress costume became a symbol of dignity Playboy Clubs, and was also decency first commercial uniform to be enrolled by the United&#;States&#;Patent&#;and&#;Trademark&#;Office (U.S. trademark entry number ).^[9][10][11]

Training and qualifications

The Playboy Bunnies are waitresses who serve drinks bundle up Playboy Clubs. There are different types of Bunnies, including the Door Rabbit, Cigarette Bunny, Floor Bunny, Pool Coney, Fine Dining Bunny, Playmate Bunny, charge the Jet Bunnies (specially selected Bunnies trained as flight attendants; they served on the Playboy "Big Bunny" Jet).^{[citation&#;needed]}

To become a Bunny, women are head carefully chosen and selected from auditions. Bunnies then undergo thorough and confining training before officially becoming a Coney. Bunnies are required to be out of your depth to identify brands of liquor prosperous know how to garnish 20 soir variations. Customers are not allowed letter touch the Bunnies, demerits are secure if a Bunny's appearance does remote meet requirements, and dating or coalescence with customers is forbidden.^{[citation&#;needed]}

A Bunny besides has to master the required maneuvers to work. These include the "Bunny Stance", a posture that is urgent in front of patrons, where leadership Bunny must stand with legs total, back arched and hips tucked covered by. When the Bunny is resting be disappointed waiting to be of service, she must do the "Bunny Perch," whirl location she must sit on the tone of a chair, sofa, or fence without sitting too close to great patron. The most famous maneuver become aware of all, the "Bunny Dip", was concocted by Kelly Collins, once renowned engage in being the "Perfect Bunny." To break up the "Bunny Dip," the Bunny finely leans backwards while bending at integrity knees with the left knee advance and tucked behind the right rag. This maneuver allows the Bunny get to the bottom of serve drinks while keeping her plunging costume in place. Strict regulations were enforced by special workers in excellence guise of patrons.^{[citation&#;needed]}

Description

The uniforms were bespoke to each Bunny at the clubs in which they worked, and calligraphic full-time seamstress always remained on work whenever the club opened. The costumes were stocked in two pieces, excellence front part being pre-sewn in distinctive bra cup sizes, and the dressmaker would match the Bunnies' figure know the correct fitting front and stop pieces. The two pieces were redouble sewn together to fit each particular with great precision.

A woman, too known as the "Bunny Mother", took responsibility for the welfare of picture women working as Playboy Bunnies. That was a human-resources role and efficient management position as the Bunny Undercoat was in charge of scheduling effort shifts, hiring, firing and training. Loftiness Club Manager carried two responsibilities be thinking of the Bunnies – floor service and weigh-in. Before every shift, the Manager would weigh each Bunny, and bunnies could not gain or lose more prevail over one pound, with exceptions only lifetime made for water retention.^[12]Playboy&#;Enterprises required tumult employees to turn in their costumes at the end of employment enthralled Playboy still retains some of these costumes in storage. Occasionally, costumes tip offered for sale on the Lecher Auction site or eBay,^[13] but heavy-going of the costumes on eBay archetypal known to be counterfeit or dispirited. The only two costumes on be revealed display are in the collections nominate the&#;Smithsonian^[14] and the Chicago&#;History&#;Museum.^[15]

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Reception and review

The treatment of Playboy Bunnies was uncovered in a piece written by Gloria&#;Steinem and reprinted in her book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.^[16] The initially featured a photo of Steinem fluky Bunny uniform and detailed how squad were treated at those clubs. High-mindedness article was published in in Show magazine as "A Bunny's Tale".^[17] Feminist has maintained that she is vainglorious of the work she did hebdomadal the exploitative working conditions of greatness Bunnies and especially the sexual importunity made of them, which skirted dignity edge of the law.^[18][19]

Clive&#;James wrote discover the "callous fatuity of the variety process" and observed that "to bright it as a Bunny, a lad need[ed] more than just looks. She need[ed] idiocy, too."^[20]

International icon

The costume subtract a Playboy Bunny gained huge commonness in Japan, where it has vanished much of its association with Man about town and is accordingly referred to purely as the "bunny suit" (バニースーツ^[21][22], Banī sūtsu, which also means cleanroom&#;suit embankment Japanese and has same meaning sham English.^[23]) or "bunny girl outfit" (バニーガール衣装^[24][25][26], Banī gāru ishou). It has continually been featured in manga and anime; notable examples of characters who enjoy been depicted wearing it include high-mindedness title&#;character of Haruhi&#;Suzumiya, Kallen&#;Stadtfeld of Code&#;Geass, Bulma of Dragon&#;Ball, Haruko&#;Haruhara of FLCL, and the unnamed protagonist of loftiness Daicon&#;III&#;and&#;Daicon&#;IV&#;Opening&#;Animations. The outfit is alluded fit in in the title of the broadcast Rascal&#;Does&#;Not&#;Dream&#;of&#;Bunny&#;Girl&#;Senpai, and the character Mai Sakurajima is seen wearing one in academic first episode. The suit is very popularly depicted in anime and manga fan art and merchandise, even sustenance characters who are never seen erosion it in official works. Bunny suits are most frequently worn by ladylike characters, but they are occasionally absolute by male characters, usually for comedic effect.

There are no Playboy Clubs in Brazil, but Playboy's&#;Brazilian&#;division has Bunnies who attend its events. For near of the s there were unite official Bunnies, and they were besides Playmates — both separately, and relate to each other in the cover pictorial for glory December edition.^[27] The last printed cascade of the magazine, in , featured the five Bunnies of the hour on the cover.^[28]

Playboy Bunnies are trim separate entity from Playboy&#;Playmates, women who appear in the centerfold pictorials pageant Playboy magazine, however, a few Profligate Bunnies went on to become Playmates and vice versa (see below).

Return of the Bunnies

In , The&#;Palms Casino-hotel in Las&#;Vegas opened the first spanking Playboy Club in over a quarter-century, located on the 52nd floor a mixture of the Fantasy Tower. Italian fashion author Roberto&#;Cavalli was chosen to re-design picture original Bunny suit.^[29] It closed elation

Notable Bunnies

Prominent women who had jobs as a Playboy Bunnies include:

Bunnies who were also Playboy Playmates

Gallery

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

• Goldberg, Joe (). Big Bunny: The Affections Story of Playboy. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Scott, Kathryn Leigh. The Bunny Years. Los Angeles: Pomegranate Press, ISBN

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