That is not just any desert. Those are pyramids in the background, so the theme, tied in with the text is freedom; emancipation (as far as it went in the 60s). As the Egyptians used thousands of slaves to build the pyramids, the girls are clearly meant to be depicted as freed slaves.

Not sure how the marketing teams would feel about the term "gay slant" these days, but they obviously liked it enough at the time to patent it.

Yes, I find being encased in tight, itchy nylon intensely liberating...

That just reminds me of the Monty Python ad sketch "I love the surgical garment..."

Gotta love that gay slant :o)

I have three things to say

1) Freedom != girdle

2) I really don't see the difference between the three different girdle models, to be honest.

3) But the ladies look like they're right out of an old science fiction film. Desert planet of the amazons or something. Nice hair. :D

"2) I really don't see the difference between the three different girdle models, to be honest."

The one on the left is blue. Boom-tish, aythangyew, I'm here all week laygennelmen.

I love* the way the colours don't line up, thus giving the reader a migraine within miliseconds.

*Despise

Anywhere would seem to be considerably more glamourous than out the front of Berlei factory works, Slough!