Stripping History first!
🕑 Added 2021-03-24 19:27:52 +0000 UTCMy baby girl Memphis finally decided to model for Stripping History!
Memphis has modeled vintage for me for years but I’m excited to introduce her into the Stripping History family now that she is old enough to make that choice to join. She has been busy here in Puerto Rico taking up many of the responsibilities of Stripping History while I’m away on the road and helping while I’m here.
Memphis has been interested in forensic Psychology and Sex Therapy for years. She has always been the most grounded soul in terms of how she treats others and works hard to bridge differences within relationships. She has also been obsessed with comic books since she was little. I remember taking her to the comic book store in chicago. She would take her time looking through each zine and comic book. I can certainly see why she has chosen to go into Nerdlesque. Which is a cosplay style version of burlesque. As soon as she is vaccinated She will be heading to chicago to train with my burlesque daughter Hot Tawdrey, the nerdlesque queen of Chicago.
For now please enjoy this beautiful video of Memphis modeling this 1940s nylon beautifully embroidered dressing gown. As well as this Lorraine Gail Smith hand made burlesque costume from the 1970’s.
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This beautiful hand made, highly detailed bra and panty set was designed by Lorraine Gail Smith before 1975, when her life was tragically taken in a park while she was talking with her new beau Peter Gardner.
Her jealous ex boyfriend Donald approached from behind while her 2 German Shepard’s were frolicking in the park. He beat her into unconsciousness with a metal pipe, some say it was a table leg.
Donald brazenly attacked both Lorraine and her new partner Peter Gardner until a priest saw what was happening and interrupted the attack.
Sadly, Lorraine died two weeks later while residing in the intensive care ward of the hospital. It is documented that many of her friends from the combat zone as well as her family stayed by her bedside for two weeks in hopes that she would pull through.
I don’t know whatever became of Peter Gardner. Her new beau, I’m still looking for him, hopeful that he is still alive and could possibly speak to the events of that tragic day.
Their attacker, Donald Gahan was almost a decade her senior. They started dating when she was still in high school. Donald claimed to have developed Lorraine‘s Jean Harlow act that she became so well known for.
Lorraine had always loved Jean Harlow, she traveled around the country inspired by her, replicating Her movements and aesthetic as closely as possible. She was always creative, her mother said. She was well known in high school for her love of the arts and her rebellious streak that undoubtedly took her to the combat zone to begin with.
In addition to her talents on stage, It was well known that Loraine could whip up some incredible G strings backstage before or after performing.
A newspaper article that I recently read claims that while she was performing in California, girls would wait backstage for her to finish up their G strings so that they could sparkle too.
It is documented that Loraine worked in California before she came back to Boston ‘s combat zone and the 2 o’clock Lounge and eventually, to her untimely, brutal demise.
Lorraine Gail Smith went by a different name when she worked in California. Possibly to outrun her obsessive ex Donald.
It had been said in the newspapers that she had been away from home, trying to get away from an ex partner that was obsessed and problematic. So I’m guessing she went to California to try to run away from Donald but but he was obviously unwilling to detach from the relationship.
He simply would not let her go. He had that old fashion mentality that if he can’t have her, nobody can, and we can clearly see how that ended for her.
I have read that she was known by Sweet Lorraine, Lorraine Smith, Loraine Gail, Lorraine Gail Smith, but there were several other names that she was known by as well.
I am still researching to see if I can find what name she worked under in California so that I can uncover which clubs she worked in.
So many pieces of Lorraines story have been lost to time, but fortunately Jeremy and I have been able to recover a lot of her history with daily detailed research.
In two weeks I leave for Las Vegas to speak with Tiffany Carter and Tempest storm, two performers who regularly worked in Boston.
I spoke with Tiffany Carter about a week ago and she said that she in fact does remember Lorraine, and that she would love to talk about her time working in Boston at the combat zone and answer some questions about our Sweet Loraine.
This is a story that I’ve been working on for about five years and in the last year, because of Covid, I have had much more time than ever to research so as you can imagine all of the details are flooding in. Finally, I’m finding answers.
But the biggest question that I have is why men continue to do this. Why men feel that they have the right, authority or privilege to destroy a woman’s life because she rejects him.
Obviously Donald knew for sure that he would never have to go to jail for this horrendous act of violence towards Lorraine. And as you can imagine, he did not go to jail, Donald spent 40 days under psych evaluation because he claimed temporary insanity, and then was released to the general public. Never serving one day in prison for taking the life of Lorraine.
Women in the sex industry have an internal fortitude like none other because of having dealing with brutality of all sorts since the beginning of time.
Men have long blamed their sexual shame, repressions, desires, proclivities , And deviancy‘s on women, especially women in the sex work industry or sex work adjacent industries such as striptease.
Society generally does not see sex workers or strippers as humans with feelings, lives or rights, we can clearly see this today in in so many ways, the most recent, the Alabama shooting of several sex workers within Asian massage Studios.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/16/us/metro-atlanta-shootings/index.html
I will end with this sobering quote by Margaret Atwood.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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Comments
Bud March
The bra and panty set is amazingly detailed. I can not imagine the time and care it took to craft such a thing. Memphis does it justice with modeling it. She is a beautiful woman. Her eyes are incredible. I feel as if I have seen them before? Hmmmm, I wonder. Thank you for the story of Lorraine. Such a tragedy. Your advocacy of women and their rights to living a life without fear of being beaten or killed is so important. God Bless the women of the world who have faced such a terrible trap.
Jose Rivera
The detail on the dress is outstanding
Roger Walker
Perhaps, just maybe, there were three guys wrote the song. If any are still alive, you might reach out to them?
Danielle Colby Striptease Historian
Hmmmmm.... interesting!
Roger Walker
In 1973 an English rock band released a song called Sweet Lorraine. I wonder if your Lorraine might have been the subject of that song. The name of the band was Uriah Heep and they were very popular. Rock stars as we know travel the planet meeting interesting people who in turn want to meet them. You never know????
Danielle Colby Striptease Historian
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Steven Malc
Well, that was incredible... the robe is so glamorous, with beautiful detail, like the tassels on the tie. That bra is incredible! How many thousands of glass beads do you suppose are sewn onto it? I can't imagine the amount of hand work went into creating it... And Memphis... She is obviously her own person, but I think she has inherited a great deal of her showmanship from her talented, sensuous and exquisitely beautiful mother...
