Overview

• Taylor Swift’s forthcoming 2025 album adopts showgirl imagery, featuring an original Bob Mackie Jubilee! costume on the cover.
• The Neon Museum positions showgirls as central to Las Vegas culture by preserving historic neon signage and interpreting the city’s revue history.
• The archetype took shape in 19th-century Paris cabarets and entered American theater through Florenz Ziegfeld’s 1907 Follies.
• Hollywood entrenched the synchronized chorus aesthetic in the 1930s and 1940s with Busby Berkeley’s large-scale musical spectacles.
• Las Vegas defined the modern showgirl with 1950s imports like Lido de Paris and Folies Bergère, elevating her to a citywide symbol by the 1960s and 1970s.