Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died Wednesday at the age of In the early days of Playboy, the magazine was must-buy material for anyone seeking titillation and female nudity. By the '60s, what had started as a men's magazine had transformed into a burgeoning lifestyle brand with nightclubs, and its own homegrown celebrities. And later, for Hefner, it also included a rotating roster of gorgeous girlfriends. In recent years, with the internet making pornography and explicit images readily available to anyone with a connection, Playboy was starting to look comparably tame. Rather than moving in a more explicit direction, Playboy tried to make its product less graphic and safer to consume anywhere for several years. Its website stopped publishing nude photos in August , and its print edition followed suit until early when Hefner's son, Cooper, said " removing it entirely was a mistake. The women celebrated by Playboy — from the models to Hef's girlfriends — have also changed drastically throughout the decades as body types, hairstyles, and fashions have gone in and out of style.


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The Official Playboy Bunny Suit
Anderson was on a record-breaking 13 Playboy covers—this one was her first. Anderson was Playmate of the Month in the magazine's February issue. Smith first appeared on Playboy 's March cover. Shortly therafter, she was named Miss May and the Guess jeans spokesmodel. She went on to be Playboy 's Playmate of the Year, and appeared on three more Playboy covers. Their relationship was the subject of the popular reality show The Girls Next Door.
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Subscriber Account active since. Bunnies have been a staple of the Playboy brand since it opened its first nightclub in In the beginning, the bunnies were simply young women who worked as waitstaff in Playboy's clubs. From to , the brand ran 40 nightclubs, according to Atlas Obscura , as well as some intermittent casinos in England and the Bahamas.
A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at a Playboy Club. In the original Playboy Clubs that operated between and , [1] the Playboy bunnies were selected through standardized training and wore a "bunny suit" costume inspired by the tuxedo -wearing Playboy rabbit mascot. This costume consisted of a strapless corset teddy , bunny ears, black sheer-to-waist pantyhose, a bow tie , a collar , cuffs and a fluffy cottontail. In more recent Playboy Clubs, such as Sin City that was re-opened in , Playboy bunnies wore slightly redesigned costumes that were based on the original bunny suit.