By Jessica • 19 years ago

Playboy club to open this week


It’s back. A new Playboy Club will be opening this week in Las Vegas, almost twenty years after the last one closed.

The original clubs, staffed by bustiered Bunnies and spurred by the sexual revolution, spanned the globe in their heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, from Chicago and New York to Manila, London, Tokyo and the Bahamas. At their height, 22 clubs were in operation, employing more than 25,000 Bunnies and boasting more than a million “keyholders,” or members.
…The new club, on the top three floors of the Palms hotel-casino, pays homage to the past while introducing its swinging bachelor lifestyle to a new generation. Lounge seating is back, as are the famous Bunny outfits, complete with ears, bow tie and cufflinks, designed by Roberto Cavalli.

But don’t fret, gals. Apparently this isn’t a step backwards for women–we’re moving forward.

“If you look at the magazine even in the early days, there were features on decorating your apartment, cooking, buying nice clothes, buying wine,” said James Beggan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville. “I think that they’ve always been ahead of their time in advocating what later becomes known as the ‘metrosexual identity.’

“Society has caught up with Playboy’s view,” he said.

Oh, well good. Because for a minute there I thought it was just good old-fashioned sexism revamped as retro-chic.

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