Everybody will tell you the fashion styles keep coming and departing. There are times when it does not even take a year before something fades into obscurity! Pinterest boards are barely able to keep up with the fashion industry’s rises and falls. But clothes are not the only ones that in terms of popularity tend to fluctuate. It looks like the female body is going through fads and patterns as well. Magazines have taught us, over the years, what is called hot and what is not. A prominent female actress is perceived in that period to be the epitome of elegance. Let us go back in time to see how, over the course of a century, the “ideal” body shape of women has evolved.
How The Ideal Female Body Type Has Changed In The Last 100 Years
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s
It was too pricey in the past to print pictures on the pages of magazines. Back then, corporations would employ illustrators to get their point across. Charles Gibson was an especially popular illustrator of women’s magazines. The artist has created the piece you are looking at! He portrayed wealthy women wearing tight corsets that gave them a ramrod-straight pose an hourglass appearance.
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s
