๐Ÿ’‹ 1920S Savage Lipstick Hula Girl Tube Pre Tattoo Antique Pat Appl'd Usa ๐Ÿ’‹Wow

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Seller: thelipstickladyatthebeach ✉️ (3,659) 99.9%, Location: Daytona Beach, Florida, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 156105413958 ๐Ÿ’‹ 1920S SAVAGE LIPSTICK HULA GIRL TUBE PRE TATTOO ANTIQUE PAT APPL'D USA ๐Ÿ’‹WOW. ๐Ÿ’‹ 1920S SAVAGE LIPSTICK HULA GIRL TUBE (PRE TATTOO) ANTIQUE PAT APPL'D ๐Ÿ’‹1920's magazine advertisement for women's cosmetics. In this case, for lipstick   Ultra Rare, PRE TATTOO Bottom Engraved *PAT APPL'D FOR SAVAGE Natural    * USA EXTREMELY RARE 1920s  4 SCENE DANCING GIRLS The Stories It Could Tell... vintage lipstick tube is a true treasure for collectors of unique beauty items. The tube features engraved BARE BREASTED HULA GIRLS WITH GRASS SKIRTS SWAYING WITH THE PALM TREES  adding an extra touch to this piece. Made in the United States, the quality of the craftsmanship speaks for itself. This lipstick tube is a must-have for anyone who appreciates the beauty of vintage items. Its small size makes it perfect for travel or for keeping in your purse, and the engraved design gives it a touch of sophistication. This item is in good condition and will make a perfect addition to any collection.  PRE TATTOO Bottom Engraved *PAT APPL'D FOR SAVAGE Natural    * EXTREMELY RARE 1920s TATTOO 4 SCENE DANCING GIRLS USED The Stories It Could Tell.... vintage makeup collectible Nude Savage Women dancers Rare Collector Beauty Product highly collectible lipstick tube had a โ€œSavageโ€ advertisement campaign featuring a jungle woman pin-up in the 1920s & a bombshell in the 1930โ€™s. Some of these tubes have the word, โ€œSavageโ€ imprinted on the top, this one does not and I believe this makes it more rare and harder to find one like it. Some were manufactured in Europe and the rarer ones were manufactured in the USA. NATURAL WAS THE EARLIER COLOR.
The topless savage dancer design is etched into the silver tone metal and HAS A dark Blue enameled in design wraps around the tube showing different dance positions or dancers. It has the Original Notched Push-up Base not the later twist-turn base. The Lipstick Does Not Push Up Hard to See Lipstick
A little history

  F Scott Fitzgeraldโ€™s first book, โ€˜This Side of Paradiseโ€™ was published in March 1920, it quickly became recognized as a piece of work that spoke of the standards of the new generation. As one Fitzgerald biographer noted,  โ€œThose standards were simple and almost savage. (Fitzgerald) ..recognized the value of food, travel, love and intoxicationโ€ฆand the value of truth.โ€ In one extract from the novel Fitzgerald wrote,   โ€œAmory had come into constant contact with that great current American phenomenon, the "petting party." None of the Victorian mothers-and most of the mothers were Victorian-had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.โ€
The Kissproof Girl
At the same time as Fitzgeraldโ€™s book was being published, the cosmetics market was really starting to take off in America with rouge, face powder and lipstick becoming much more commonplace and new brands being created to meet the demand. This compact story is about one such new brand and its creator - another extraordinary man - with whom Fitzgerald would probably have had much in common.

SAVAGE/TATTOO/KISSPROOF the lines were introduced in the 1920s 1930s by James Leslie Younghusband, a Canadian Younghusband was the brains behind another "indelible" lipstick line called Kissproof, which he invented in 1923. 

This is from    vintage make up museum she doesnโ€™t โ€œdance around the obvious here: there's no way any company could get away with this sort of fetishizing of "exotic" people and cultures today.  The ads and product design certainly are eye-catching - who wouldn't want to wear colors inspired by a tropical paradise? -  but when you look closely and read the ad copy, you realize how racist they are.  Tattoo and Savage represent the pinnacle of white men's fantasies about "native" women's sexuality, which in their minds is completely untamed and animal-like.  By wearing lipstick shades appropriated from these "uncivilized" cultures, white ladies can show off their racy side while still adhering to traditional American/European standards of female decorum.  Take, for example, the copy in this ad.  "From South Sea maidens, whom you know as the most glamorous women on earth, comes the secret of making and keeping lips excitingly lovely and everlastingly youthful.  In that land where romance is really real, you'll naturally find no coated, pasty lips.  Instead, you'll find them gorgeously tattooed!  Not with a needle, but with a sweet, exotic red stain made from the berries of the passion-fruit...Tattoo is the civilized version of this marvelous idea."  You'll  notice that these particular women are depicted in stereotypical garb that existed solely in white people's imaginations, i.e. hula skirts and flower necklaces.  And just to further the idea of their supposedly insatiable lust, they are also shown topless. Women of color are reduced to othered, highly sexualized props whose only purpose is to serve white women.   

  Younghusband's company faced stiff competition from the likes of Tangee and others.  Perhaps he felt that this manner of cultural appropriation, i.e. creating what was probably the decade's most risquรฉ and raciest makeup line by portraying the indigenous people of the South Pacific as feral and completely unfettered by "civilized" society's code of conduct, and then offering white women a socially acceptable way to channel that imagined freedom via lipstick, was the best way to stand out in a crowded market.  The ads repeat words like "thrilling", "maddening", and suggests that the color will last through late-night activity.  Sounds very exciting, yes?

The other possible reason Younghusband looked towards the South Pacific was the rise of tourism to Hawaii and other islands during the 1930s the increasing rise in tourism heralded a cultural love affair with anything tropical.  "Tourism to Hawaii, via luxurious cruise ships, increased in the 1930s.  sailing from San Francisco to Hawaii and the South Seas. Quite a few movies with a tropical setting were made in the thirties, including  Mutiny on the Bounty   ( Her Jungle Love   (1938) โ€” both starring queen-of-the-sarong Dorothy Lamour,  Charlie Chan in Honolulu   (1938), and  Honolulu   (1939). Bing Crosby and his movie  Waikiki Wedding   (1937) popularized the song 'Sweet Leilani,' written in 1934."  

Getting back to my other questions, I'm unclear on the difference between the Tattoo and Savage lines, or why Younghusband would launch both nearly simultaneously.  As I noted previously, there doesn't seem to be an appreciable difference between the two, and they were released at approximately the same time - around 1933 for Tattoo and 1934 for Savage.  Tattoo lasted till about 1949, while the last newspaper ad I found for Savage dates to October 1941.  At first I thought perhaps Savage was a drugstore line, whereas Tattoo was sold only in department stores, since their respective prices were 20 cents and one dollar.  This 1939 Gimbel's ad for Savage, however, kills that theory. 

1920s Vintage SAVAGE Lipstick Holder Case with SAVAGE was sister of TATTOO maker or brand that sold like marked lipstick cases. Before Mergeing Together in 1930ish The branding was some what risque for its day! 4 BareBreasted & Bare Navels Dancing in 4 Scenes

This vintage lipstick tube is a true treasure for collectors of unique beauty items. The tube features engraved dancing girls, adding an extra touch of elegance to this piece. Made in the United States, the quality of the craftsmanship speaks for itself. This lipstick tube is a must-have for anyone who appreciates the beauty of vintage items.



  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Good Overall Vintage Condition Camera Shadows Donโ€™t Allow me to Show it but itโ€™s NICE See pics they are the Description ENGRAVED TATTOO DANCING GIRLs Surround the Tube engraved Below Dancing Girls TATTOO USA See Photos they're the description it does have some scrapes to Brand as Shown with Normal Aging savage is Engraved next to Band See & Enlarge to Decide Shadows Camera Glare to Photos Tube Does Not PushUp Lipstick NOT for Use its Being Sold As A Collectable to Display ENLARGE PHOTOS THEY ARE THE DESCRIPTION! YOU DECIDE
  • Featured Refinements: Vintage Lipstick
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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