Over the last 100 years, the women we consider to be sex symbols have had a huge variety of body shapes. Check out this decade-by-decade description of what people considered to be a “hot body,” via
Mail Online.
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Beginning with the 1910s Gibson Girl ideal inspired by the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson |
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By 1920, the flapper girl was well in fashion and a trim figure was all the rage |
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Hemlines fell in 1930 and curves seeped their way back into fashion |
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With their men off fighting, fashion changed in the Forties and the curvy feminine look to cheer returning heroes became the order of the day |
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In the Fifties, weight-gain tablets were promoted in magazines to help women fill out their curves |
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In the 1960s, dresses shrunk to suit the favoured petite frame as sported by Twiggy |
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Back came the curves in 1970 - the era of the long, lean dancing queen |
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By the Eighties, the British woman was on the way to a healthy figure with Elle MacPherson being the ideal |
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The Nineties was the decade of 'the waif' popularised the 'heroin chic' look seen on Kate Moss |
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By the Millennium, women strived for an athletic figure like Britney Spears |
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Today, the Facebook generation look to body icons such as curvy, big bottomed Kim Kardashian |
(via
Mail Online)
Mohammd
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