Everybody can tell you that trends in fashion come and go. There are days when it doesn’t take even a year for anything to disappear into obscurity! Pinterest boards can barely keep up with the fashion industry’s ebb and flow. But clothes are not the only items in terms of popularity that appear to fluctuate. It feels like the female body is going through patterns and fads as well. Magazines have taught us over the years what is considered hot and not. There is also a famous female celebrity in that period, which is regarded as the epitome of beauty. Let’s go back in time and see how, over the course of a century, the “ideal” body shape of women has shifted.
How The Ideal Female Body Type Has Changed In The Last 100 Years
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s
It was too expensive in the past to publish pictures on the pages of magazines. Back then, businesses would recruit illustrators to get their point across. Charles Gibson was a particularly famous illustrator of women’s magazines. The artist has produced the piece you are looking at! He depicted wealthy women wearing tight corsets that gave them a ramrod-straight posture and an hourglass figure.
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s