May 2 - National Bombshells' Day

Happy National Bombshells' Day! Each year on the first Saturday in May, this day encourages women to celebrate themselves and their best friends.

Yes, the first Saturday of the month of May is a day reserved for recognising and celebrating the bombshell in all of us! So pay attention, bombshells – your day is coming right up!  

But, you may ask…what’s a “bombshell”? The term “bombshell” is a forerunner to the term “sex symbol” and originally used to describe popular female sex icons.  

In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman. The Online Etymology Dictionary attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. However the term bombshell is really older than that! 

The first woman to be known as a "bombshell" was Jean Harlow, who was nicknamed the “blonde bombshell” in Italian-American film director, producer and writer Frank Capra's 1931 American pre-Code black and white romantic comedy film 'Platinum Blonde'.  

Two years later, Harlow starred in American film director, cinematographer, and producer Victor Fleming's 1933 American pre-Code black and white romantic comedy-drama film 'Bombshell'. 

Even one of the posters proclaimed “Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom.”  

Hollywood soon took up the term the late 1940s through the early 1960s, to include brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the blonde bombshell. 

Some of the film stars, largely of 1940s–1960s, referred to as bombshells. 

These included Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Jayne Mansfield, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch and Ursula Andress.  

Even cartoon characters such as Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit were symbolized as bombshells! 

So now you know what a bombshell is! National Bombshells' Day encourages women to celebrate their inner bombshell and to spoil themselves and their fellow females. 

You may not be as famous as Marilyn Monroe but inside that domesticated exterior, beats the heart of a true vixen! Move over, Jessica – it’s their time to shine!  

  

HOW TO OBSERVE 

  

Use #BombshellsDay or #BeABombshell to post on social media. 

  

HISTORY 

  

In 2015, Victoria’s Secret®. founded National Bombshells’ Day to celebrate women and their best friends.  

Being a bombshell means many things to Victoria’s Secret®, and we would like our customers and fans to celebrate being Bombshells on this day. 

in March 2015, the registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed National Bombshells’ Day to be held annually on the first Saturday in May. 

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DATES
May 01, 2021 
May 07, 2022 
May 06, 2023 
May 04, 2024 
May 03, 2025 
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May 01, 2027 
May 06, 2028 
May 05, 2029 
May 04, 2030