Well, yes…the sexualized non-sexuality - how is that… As opposed to Monroe’s hot sex on toast.
The first person the term brought to mind for me was Hayden Panettiere. Specifically in her early Heroes getup, but just in general.
I also thought of Britney Spears back in the early days before all the crazy. Sigh.
Early Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore, too.
Female cheerleaders are for some “all-American,” but I think at the same time their outfits are designed to be sexually provocative. Does any other country have cheerleaders in miniskirts?
My British friend says, “Yes.”
First image that flashed through my mind when I saw the thread-title was of Betty Cooper from the Archie comics. She’s blonde, beautiful, wholesome, friendly; kinda folksy and unworldly - the whole shebang. She’s also very 1950s-ish, which is what I think of when I hear the term “All-American Girl.”
I just think Christie Brinkley back in the day.
Do other nations have the “iconic” girl? Is there a “German Girl?”
I don’t know if there’s a modern German girl imaged, but when I read your question I instantly imagined a young lady, fresh faced, hair in two looped braids, with the bodice of her German dress not quite doing its job. In the mental picture, she’s carrying 4 mugs of beer and smiling delightfully.
(If you replace the beer with tech notes and add a butterfly tattoo to one side of the cleavage- and make the girl half German, half Filipino- you’ve got my friend Nicola at our university’s International Festival.)
What about that girl that wants to live in my refrigerator?
Oh, sorry, she’s from Minnesota.
Still, she seems to me like someone who Americans think of as typically German. Kind of like Leiko’s description above.
In other words, you’re saying that the British also have cheerleaders? That’s news to me.
Cheerleaders at a soccer game? My mind can’t grasp the concept.
Two of your three All-American girls are European. Interesting.
That’s exactly who popped into my mind. Naturally cute, a little athletic, and big teeth.
[Christie Brinkley]
I was discovered for my smile
[/Christie Brinkley]
Sounds like Hogan’s sweetie when he needed a little non-male loving in the Stalag. How’s this for a more modern take? Here’s a more authentic, though hardly less appetizing photo.
Your friend sounds like she could be smokin’.
The Spanish woman with the heavily accented English, sexy as it may be, is your AAG? She is sometimes my AFG, but All American is a bit of a stretch.
Sure. The “all-Israeli girl” is outdoorsy, tanned, has long dark hair worn in a braid down her back, and wears slightly-too-short shorts and a frayed khaki shirt.
You could also have just said the St Pauli Girl.
An All-Ausie/Kiwi girl is usually tall, outdoorsy, sporty, always smiling about everything and slightly tomboyish. Think Elle McPherson, Zoe Bell from Grindhouse, Lucy Lawless or Simmone McKinnon from Baywatch. I once worked with a girl like that and the way she talked about her trip back home where she would finally get to roll around in pig shit actually made it seem like the most awesome thing ever.
An All Russian girl basically looks like she should be plottings 'gainst Moose and Squirel. Tall, cool, lots of fur clothing.
Her very butch girlfriend (ex-Navy) is inclined to agree.
Doesn’t she need some hot dish and bars to be the St Pauli girl?
Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember: Appealing, but not stripper-y.
Winona Ryder, pre-1990
Molly Ringwald/Ally Sheedy irca 1986
Is that Pamela Sue Anderson? If so, she fucked up a very good thing.