Sweater girl
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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 sweaters over a cone- or bullet-shaped bra that emphasized the woman's bustline. The term was virtually synonymous with "pin-up girl," a popular culture trope of the Second World War referring to the pretty girls whose pictures adorned soldiers' barracks.