Everybody will tell you the fashion trends come and go. There are days when it doesn’t even take a year before something falls into obscurity! Pinterest boards can scarcely keep up with the ebb and flow of the fashion market. But clothes are not the only products that tend to fluctuate in terms of popularity. It feels as if the female body is still going through trends and fads. Over the years, magazines have told us what is considered hot and not. There is also a famous female celebrity who is considered to be the epitome of beauty. Let’s go back in time to see how women’s “ideal” body shape has changed for a century.
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s
In the past, it was too costly to print pictures on the pages of magazines. Back then, to get their point across, businesses would hire illustrators. Charles Gibson was an especially popular women’s magazine illustrator. The artist has produced the piece you are looking at! He portrayed rich women wearing tight corsets that gave them a ramrod-straight pose and the hourglass figure.