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."?
2006-12-27 19:35:19 · 6 answers · asked by Ohay 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
P.S. Here is an old AD featured in San Francisco in the 1980's.
http://www.bodypositive.com/images/Toothin2.gif
2006-12-27 19:36:20 · update #1
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.
2006-12-28 01:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pleasingly Plump Women
2016-12-17 15:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by ayoub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cycle is changing back to a more realistic version of what is "normal". The fashion industry had dictated to us what we were supposed to view as "beautiful" and "thin was in". Thin, within reason, is healthier, but the borderline anorexia seen on some of today's models has actually prompted some organizations to ban them because they do not represent the norm, and fuel eating disorders in young girls and sometimes boys now too. "Normal" is coming back into fashion because "healthy" is coming into fashion. Ages ago it was believed that "healthy" was "plump". Now we know better.
2006-12-27 19:40:42 · answer #3 · answered by Paul H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because society has changed. The more fattening food is cheaper while the healthier, leaner food is more expensive so people with more wealth have the means to buy healthier food while the people with less money have to buy fatty foods.
Why the thumbs down? It's the only right answer.
2006-12-27 19:47:44 · answer #4 · answered by Bleaarg 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A woman being 'hefty' back in the olden days was proof that her husband was affluent and could afford to feed her well. I also read that it proved, in their minds, that he probably had household help for her, such as a maid, cook or housekeeper. The more rounded, full tummied women were considered volupuous and curvy, rather than fat.
2006-12-27 19:41:32 · answer #5 · answered by smcdevitt2001 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hasn't changed for me. I don't like the anorexic look. Now Scarlett Johansson or Charlize Theron, that's hot.
2006-12-27 19:41:23 · answer #6 · answered by bobo383 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋