Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a glamorous young man or woman; also attrib.

1937		Western Morn. News 31 May 8/7: ‘Glamour Girl’ Plymouth Search for Film Lead [...] interviewing applicants in a ‘glamour girl’ contest.
1938		Gloucs. Echo 25 Oct. 4/5: Alice Faye, glamour queen of the period.
1939		M. Brinig Anne Minton’s Life (1940) 91: People do him a great injustice by calling him a glamour boy.
1940		‘Digg Mee’ ‘Observation Post’ in N.Y. Age 31 Aug. 10/5: Mt Vernon’s erstwhile ‘glammer boy’, Cecil Levister.
1941		Western Dly Press 10 Jan. 2/6: The London Casino ‘Glamour Lovelies and Dancing Divines’.
1942		Sun. Post (Lanarks) 22 Mar. 6/2: All this is sandwiched ’twixt glamour-oomph-gal leg-shows, songs and dances.
1942		Sun. Post (Lanarks) 1 Mar. 6/2: He meets saloon glamour gal Joan bennett.
1944		Observer 11 June 3: Glamour-girl blackmailed by crippled monster.
1949		Gloucester Citizen 8 Dec. 8/4: Eric Boon the Glamour Boy of British Boxing.
1951		Dundee Courier 26 Dec. 6/2: ‘Who is Mrs Gage?’ Elizabeth asked [...] ‘That glamour queen they call Stephanie’.
1952		Lait & Mortimer USA Confidential 125: Virginia Hill, the underworld’s kept glamor-gal.
1952		Lichfield Mercury 5 Sept. 1/5: [advert] Glamour Girl Hose in Nylon, Pure Silk.
1953		R. Garland Heart in Exile 226: The last affair Julian had was with a young tough [...] curly dark hair, spiv haircut – well, the cockney glamour boy.
1966		F. Elli Riot (1967) 43: There were five or six from the glamour-boy clique, weight-lifters and beboppers, their hair combed in duck-tails.
1967		N. Dunn Poor Cow 124: He wants to make me an old granny pushing a pram – why shouldn’t I be a mum and a glamour girl too.
1970		San Diego Sailor 3: Maybe I wasn’t one of the glamor boys, but I got a fair amount of fan mail.
1971		N. Armfelt Catching Up 186: Oh, glamour queen, Melva!
1984		J. Dailey Silver Wings (1985) 309: Your organization is worthless. You’re nothin’ but a bunch of glamour gals.
1999		Indep. Rev. 23 July 12: Holden was [...] no longer the glamour boy.
2002		in T. Weaver Science Fiction Confidential 32: ‘You later made the career transition from glamour girl to character actress.’ ‘I don’t think I was ever really a glamour girl — not at heart.’.
2003		N. Moss Nineteen Weeks 35: [He] was regarded as the glamour boy of the Conservative Party.

(US black) a ‘good-time girl’, one who lives off men in return for sex; the inference is of a ‘female barfly’, an ‘enthusiastic amateur’ prostitute.

1942

D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 7 Nov. 16: I was [a Glamour Girl] for five years — way over the average life of a Glamour Chick [...] To be a successful Glamour Girl and to last [...] we have to be ready to change our love [...] at the slightest rustle of greenback bills.

an attractive young woman, occas. a man.

1941		Aberdeen Jrnl 3 Feb. 4/7: [In] thwe W.A.A.F.’s mess [...] girls drank tea out of outsizd mugs bearing hand-painted inscriptions — ‘B. Brown, her mug’ [...] ‘Glamour Pants’.
1979		C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 240: And the parents dote on – guess who? – young, glamour-pants Philip.

an ostentatiously well-dressed, lavishly made-up etc (young) person, usu. a woman; also attrib.

1940		in Campbell & Campbell War Paint 139: [aircraft nose art] Glamour-Puss II.
1947		Cheltenham Chron. 11 Oct. 7/2: It is of little use being shown basqued, flared, and pleated cothes on elongated ‘glamour pusses’.
1949–51		in M. Daly Profile of Youth 120: A girl who wears an Angora sweater or fur coat to school is ‘strutting,’ or playing ‘glamor puss’.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 54: ‘Now listen, glamour puss,’ I said, flicking his bottom with my towel.
1961		T.I. Rubin In the Life 73: I mean look at me, Doc. I’m not no glamour-puss.
1973		A. Bennett Habeus Corpus Act II: Now, Dennis, he’s not a glamour puss. Never will be.
1989		Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 119: [note] G Company always resented Easy’s glamour-puss reputation.
1993		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 47: I must say she is a little glamour pussy.
2000		Indep. Mag. 22 Jan. 6: I didn’t have this idea of myself as some glamour puss.
2009		P. McCabe Holy City 170: A voluptuous supper-club glamourpuss.