![]() Seeing as Howard was famous for creating an illustration of the “Christy Girl,” it was easy to morph Bernice Smith into the beautiful and modern ideal woman. Bernice was recruited to be a model in the poster shown below this poster showed a sexy motivation to inspire troops to sign up for the military. A famous magazine artist Howard Chandler Christy heard Bernice’s exclamation which sparked an artistic idea. Bernice Smith Tongate humored a Navy recruiting office in 1917 in stating how she wished she were a man so she would be allowed to join the Navy. ![]()
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