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Femme Fatale: Iris Bristol



Iris Bristol Iris Bristol always seemed right at home with tiki statues, tropical surroundings, and her trademark leopard print bikini. This stunning brunette was the girl-next-door with that alluring hint of the South Pacific. She was born in the very un-exotic locale of Birmingham, England, and by the mid-1950's had made her way to California. She became a regular in the pin-up world appearing in a few nudie-cutie shorts and many girlie magazines working with the likes of legendary dirty-old-man Russ Meyer. She appeared on several magazine covers, almost all of them with a tiki theme. If she wasn't wearing that leopard print bikini, she was dressed up like a jungle maiden with flowers in her hair. (And for one issue of Adam a spear in her hands!) Bristol was a bikini gal through-and-through. One magazine write-up mentioned that she had a dozen polka dot bikinis. And, brother, did she have the figure to really fill those bikinis. Her measurements were reported from between 37-21-35 to 38-23-36...all in a 5-foot 3-inch frame! But it is the jungle girl look that we really remember her for. In the spirit of Irish McCalla's Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Bristol was able to bring out that "Me Tarzan, You Jane" instinct in every red-blooded American Bachelor. She projected such a great aura. Bristol seemed civilized enough to take to the finest nightspot, but when she heard the beats of the jungle drums, she would become an exotic savage. It was the perfect combination of naughty and nice all wrapped up in a beautiful leopard print bikini package.

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