Margaret Gorman Was A Lean Beauty
Margaret Gorman was a beauty queen who became Miss America in 1921. Her fans believed she had that decade’s ideal body type. As you can see, this was far from the curvy of the previous era’s Gibson Girls. People admired females with lean bodies this time around!
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The Soft Siren Of The ‘30s
It was an iconic and fun era, but the Roaring Twenties weren’t always around. As the stock market crashed, the boxy flapper dresses dropped off the radar. Women wore more fitted dresses in the ’30s that hugged the body’s curves better. If it had happened a few years earlier, this would have been a faux pas!