A Short History of The “Ideal” Female Body


	A Short History of The “Ideal” Female Body

EddieIsSteady

7-8-2009 5:59 PM

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7-8-2009 6:18 PM

miad20

why do i feel there's not much interest into the history of 'ideal' male body?

7-9-2009 8:40 PM

fewstingscorpio

Crap! Too bad for 1960....I was feeling good!

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<STRONG>1639</STRONG> - <EM>The Three Graces</EM>; Pieter Pauwel Rubens</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/bathers.jpg" alt="Bathers" id="image829" />
<STRONG>1887</STRONG> - Pierre Auguste Renoir, <EM>The Bathers</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/flapper.jpg" alt="Flapper" id="image828" />
<STRONG>1920 - </STRONG>Thin, short haired flapper.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/mar.jpg" alt="Marilyn monroe" id="image832" />
<STRONG>1950</STRONG> - Marylin Monroe (Size 14)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><P><STRONG>Update:</STRONG> <EM>MAM885 says</EM></p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>I’ve read in a couple very reliable sources (women’s fitness magazines) that Monroe’s “size 14″ is comparable to a size 8 today, due to vanity sizing and such.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/twiggy.jpg" alt="Twiggy Lawson" id="image834" />
<STRONG>1960</STRONG> - Twiggy Lawson (Aka the beginning of the end.) This was the first time in history that an <SPAN>under </SPAN>weight woman became the standard for the ideal body image</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/karen.jpg" alt="karen" id="image833" />
<STRONG>1970’s</STRONG> - Karen Carpenter (Died in 1983 from heart failure as a complication of Anorexia Nervosa)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/1988.jpg" alt="Cosmo" id="image835" />
<STRONG>1988</STRONG> - Cosmopolitan</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/harpers.jpg" alt="Harpers" id="image838" />
<SPAN>2002</SPAN> - Harper’s Bazaar</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/a-short-history-of-the-ideal-female-body/"><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/skinny.jpg" id="image837" alt="Skinny" />
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