Chili Williams — The Polka-Dot Girl (LIFE Magazine, 1944).
This photo was included in an article on the art of camouflage. Chili Williams posed for a series of photos designed to convey the basic principles of camouflage. The U.S: Army’s camouflage section at Fort Belvoir (VA) asked Ewing Krainin to make these pictures, later printed on Life Magazine, for their lantern-slide lectures on camouflage. The Army official release on the subject says that “vital principles are impressed in the minds of camouflage students in a most effective manner…”