Everybody can tell you that fashion trends are coming and going. There are times when it doesn’t take even a year for something to fade into obscurity! Pinterest boards can hardly keep up with the fashion industry’s ebb and flow. But clothes are not the only things in terms of popularity that seem to fluctuate. It feels like the female body is passing through trends and fads as well. Magazines have shown us over the years what is considered hot and not. There is often a famous female celebrity in that era who is considered the epitome of beauty. Let’s go back in time to see how, over the course of a century, the ideal body type of women has changed.
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
