Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Pinup name?
Is it Pin Up or Pinup?
Do I need a Pinup Name?
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There are lots of excellent reasons to create a Pinup name ranging from personal to professional.
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Personal -
for fun,
for entering competitions,
for publications
Blogging, Instagram and other social media - this could become a professional endeavour
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Professional
Persona/alias - writing (pen name) for publications.
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Roller derby name
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Performer name
Like a Pinup name, a performer name is a big part of an identity used to help maintain personal privacy and aid with promotion.
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Business name
There are many Pinups in our community who use their names as or in their registered business name and have built a professional profile around it.
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So no, you don't need a pinup name, but there are many excellent reasons to have one.
Is it Pin-Up or Pinup?
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Both! Or either. It's a personal preference.
The concept reached its key popularity in the 40s during WW2 (though it began as early as the 1800s - where female burlesque and vaudeville performers would create highly collectable promotion cards with their image on them, often in dressed a more risqué fashion than was acceptable in every day society) and that peak continued through to the 60s, now it has a far more modern execution, though we still pay tribute to its popular roots.
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Pin Up of the 40s-60s has evolved and changed over the decades and is now a very different thing to what it was. Modern Pinup fashion and culture still draws heavily on that of the 40s-60s, after all, that's what Pinup aesthetic is based on, but it is far more diverse, inclusive and feminist than it was seen to be (particularly in popular media of the time).
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At The Pinup Registry we choose to use the term Pinup to acknowledge that evolution and celebrate the ever-increasing diversity and inclusivity of our culture, whilst still paying respect to our trailblazing Pin Up fore-sisters.
We firmly believe in the phrase originally coined by Dandy Wellington; 'Vintage Style, Not Vintage Values'.
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And this quote from Ms Moyna May sums it up perfectly:
"I’ve often felt I was born in the wrong era, at home in an old book or being crafty…
The re-emergence of mid-century styling has comforted me like a good cup of tea.
Yet, in spite of this, I am inked and rebellious, a free-thinking and politically minded woman who wouldn’t choose to live in an earlier time."
