

She was able to access some of the biggest secrets of the Playboy worldįully strapped into her Bunny gear, Steinem was able to infiltrate the inner world in a way no one had ever seen.

“The boning in the waist would have made Scarlett O’Hara blanch, and the entire construction tended to push all available flesh up to the bosom.” The bottom was cut up so high that it left my hip bone exposed as well as a good five inches of my untanned derriere.”Īnd that wasn’t it. “She told me to inhale as she zipped again, this time without mishap and stood back to look at me critically.
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“It was so tight that the zipper caught my skin as she fastened the back,” Steinem wrote. Eventually, she made it into a bright satin blue Bunny costume. Throughout the rounds, she was surrounded by girls “wearing nothing but bikini-style panties” and “lavender satin high heels,” forced to wait hours and have Polaroids taken. Steinem documented every step of the shallow scrutiny she was put through during the application process, which started with her being told that her fake age of 24 was “awfully old” (she was actually 28 at the time). She was scolded for her age and forced to stuff her costume for extra cleavage
