How to undress for your husband: Step-by-step guide to stripping in the bedroom

These images, published originally in LIFE Magazine in 1937 and again on LIFE.com this week, illustrate step-by-step how a wife should - and should not - undress for her husband. Using burlesque dancers as models, Allen Gilbert, who was promoting his new Manhattan School of Undressing at the time, gave readers a few pointers and lamented in the article that wives with a faulty 'disrobing methodology' were largely responsible for ballooning divorce rate. (Daily Mail UK)