Sign Vintage
Back in the olden days, women that were pleasantly plump was a sign of health and wealth?
If you look at ancient drawings or at the magnificent statues lying around ancient Rome, all of the women were drawn or sculpted as pleasantly plump women. This was sign of beauty, wealth, and health. Fifty or sixty years ago, I think that the same applied to society. All of the vintage pin-up girls were plump and they were seen as sex symbols (like Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page). Then why now has it changed so much? How could something that used to be seen as beauty, be now considered "ugly, disgusting, etc."?
P.S. Here is an old AD featured in San Francisco in the 1980's.
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It was only after the First World War that it became the ideal of beauty for women to resemble clarinets rather than violins.
Yes, a plump woman was considered much more attractive than the lean silhouettes popular today--and is still considered so in many developing parts of the world.
It was a primal thing, I suppose, dating back to when our ancestors lived a marginal existence, and a plump woman seemed better able to survive the periodic famines and at the same time nurture the young.
While it's true that many of the pin-ups of the 1940's and 1950's were curvy, for some reason it began to change in the 1960's. Twiggy was the first really thin fashion icon.
I think the pendulum is now moving more toward the athletic body type rather than the extremes of the Rubens-esque sort on one hand and the anorexic-looking models on the other. This sort of woman is fit, well-toned, and usually has curves in the right places.
Maybe this trend is one that young women can live with, rather than trying to fit into either of the above molds.
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