Wet t-shirt contest
A wet t-shirt contest is a form of beauty contest in which t-shirts are worn and water is poured over them.
principle
The participating women wear a thin, light, mostly white T-shirt without a bra . The T-shirt is doused with water so that the fabric becomes transparent , sticks to the body and the breasts stand out. Mostly cold water is used here, the resulting erection of the nipples is supposed to simulate sexual arousal .
Wet t-shirt contests can also be done as a form of striptease . In these cases, the participants are encouraged to take off their wet t-shirt after a while and to present their bare breasts to the audience.
history
The first wet T-shirt contest was held in Sun Valley , Idaho , in early 1971 . During the preparation of the shooting of the advertising film The Performers , the ski film director Dick Barrymore (1933-2008) was asked by a ski technician to undertake a sales promotion for the ski manufacturer K2 . The occasion was the Airline Week in Sun Valley, during which employees from various airlines meet regularly in Sun Valley. He was supposed to give away a couple of K2 skis to the woman who would look best with the shirt. On the spur of the moment, Barrymore's team decided to turn the task into a kind of beauty contest with you as the judge. Your scores from 1 to 10 should be multiplied by degrees of difficulty. The factor 1.0 applied to T-shirt wearers who wore a bra underneath. If they did without this, they were rewarded with a level of difficulty 1.5. For a wet T-shirt without a bra, the number of points could be multiplied by 2.
The jury members included Barrymore's colleague Warren Miller and the musician Vince Guaraldi . The competition took place in the Boiler Room Bar three days after it was announced . The start was made by the United Airlines participant , who wore a fur coat. During her performance, she took off her coat and did not wear a bra. She had tied the wet T-shirt around her wrist. This meant that the remaining participants also dared the highest level of difficulty. Some of the participants almost undressed completely. The winner was Pan Am's Kitt Rafferty , who the following day threatened to sue anyone who posted the photos.
As a result, Barrymore hosted other impromptu competitions at the Rusty Nail of Stowe , Vermont , and Red Onion of Aspen , Colorado . Later in the ski season, Playboy sent an employee to Mammoth Mountain , California , to take pictures of a competition. After hearing about this article, K2 designer Chuck Ferries had the raw version of The Performers shown and (almost) topless scenes removed. Although the media exposure of his skis helped, he had problems with the CEO of the company Cummins Engine , which now owned K2. He was also President of the American Council of Christian Churches . Still, the film became the most successful of both K2 and Barrymore, as well as being the first to show freestyle skiing .
Another inspiration for the organization of wet t-shirt contests is said to have been provided by the film The Depth (1977), the opening scene of which shows a dive by the leading actress Jacqueline Bisset with a wet white t-shirt.
reception
Frank Zappa addressed the Wet T-Shirt Contest in a song called Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt , released on the 1979 album Joe's Garage .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dick Barrymore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ A b c Dick Barrymore: Breaking Even , Pictorial Histories Pub Co, 1997, ISBN 978-1-57510-037-1 , pp. 231 ff.
- ↑ Contest Wet T-Shirt: Slippery When Wet! articles.syl.com, September 14, 2005, archived from the original on July 7, 2007 ; accessed on February 17, 2017 .