Little Women

In department stores, they're called petites. In school-yards, they're short stuff. In the business world, they're little dynamos. At amusement parks, they're "below this line," in Texas, they're little ladies and in bed, they're, well, highly mobile. But have you ever heard one described with the kinds of adjectives--statuesque, striking, bombshell--heaped on the Naomi Campbells and Christy Turlingtons of the world? Not likely. Face it, in this bigger-is-better era, little women tend to get short shrift. Until now. "We were talking about the hundreds of pictorials we've done in the past," says Playboy Senior Photo Editor Jim Larson, "and we suddenly realized that we'd somehow overlooked petite women. We knew we had to fix that." Larson put the word out, and before you could say Lilliputian, an army of bantam beauties lit upon the Playboy shores. "The truth is, they were all completely adorable," Larson recalls. "But they were also extremely sexy." Think he's telling you a tall tale? Look for yourself.