How did standards of beauty of female figure change?
What female figure is beauty standard today? Still disputes do not stop. Solution is not found. What still was considered yesterday as ideal that is not today. Eras changed, and with them also standards of the most beautiful female figure changed.
It is almost impossible to meet the woman who for hundred percent is happy with the figure. At least one percent, but it will be obligatory to try to improve hated shortcomings. If attentively to study the history of development of the industry of beauty, then it is possible to be surprised only as far as it is changeable in opinion. Ideas of ideal female figure strongly differ, from each other, throughout all time.
Antiquity
In Ancient Egypt the woman's figure reckoned with short waist, narrow shoulders and long legs as ideal. Hands and stop were narrow. It indicated its aristocratic origin.
In Ancient Greece the figure reckoned with athletic forms as beautiful. The mannish woman made improbable success at opposite sex. The fact is that Greeks admired at that time more men's figure. It was immortalized in stone. Only it was considered as perfect. The famous Aphrodite leaving sea foam was all mannish. Here model parameters of Aphrodite executed by famous Praksitel: height is 164 cm, breast of 86 cm, waist of 69 cm, hips of 93 cm. It had figure type "pear". Greeks considered it divinely beautiful. The breast and hips of ideal figure of the Greek woman had to be small therefore they were redressed in order that they seemed less visually. The ideal Roman was considered that if its figure was not thin. But the completeness should not have been friable, and elastic and tightened. For Romans to achieve such results meant a lot of work also regular physical exercises as their skeleton was genetically thinner, than at Greek women. Romans, as well as Greek women, redressed the breast and hips.
Ancient China
In China during Han dynasty era the Chinese beauties have been obliged to have the low growth, fine-molded, brittle body and the most important – small foot. In order that foot of the girl was tiny, they had to go in special blocks which did not allow bones of foot to develop naturally. However this way of finding of beauty was very painful.
The tiny size of female foot was beauty standard many hundreds years ago and remains to it, to this day. And today sometimes girls force to wear these terrible shoes, paying tribute to ancient tradition of the aristocracy.
Renaissance and Victorian era
At this time impressive forms are welcomed: big breast, wide hips and full hands. The woman is associated with softness and splendor. Chubby sides and white skin were beauty top. Distinguished female figures are considered as ugly and painful. Mona Lisa and Venus Botticelli bright representatives of era and legislators of fashion of that time.
Era of sovremennost
And at last, there have come dynamic twentieth years. Women have stopped being house hostesses. Emancipation prevailed. Now women are a little similar to themselves in the past, but, are absolutely happy with such metamorphoses. Those figures are considered as reference which are similar to boyish. Any curvy shapes, the breast has to be slightly noticeable. Ideally, if it is only two nipples on skin. Down with braids and curlies. Hairstyle under the boy – this beauty! Unattainable, mysterious and cold Greta Garbo becomes icon, object for imitation. The thirtieth years resolutely stop androgenic bacchanalia. The Golden Hollywood Age has begun! Origin of glossy style. Women with appetizing forms, slender waist, magnificent breast are fashionable now. "Hourglasses" - ideal figure of time. Such forms have held on almost up to the end the sixtieth. Marilyn Monroe became the bright representative and icon of style. She has returned femininity to fashion, has inhaled life in once thin and angular female figures.
But again Englishwomen set parameters to female figures. The body has to be thin and flexible. Long and thin hands and legs, and very small breast are considered as standard. The English feminists, having forgotten about the magnificent Victorian great-great-grandmothers, have rushed to fight against excess weight and began first to count kilocalories. Angular, similar to the tortured boy, Tviggi became style icon.
There has come the era of lean figures. Now all wanted to be as Tviggi. Women starved themselves, were engaged in hated aerobics, stopped eating. Also cried at night if the nature has generously awarded them with curvy shapes, but not bony knees and breasts pimples. This period generates anorexia which will cripple many fate of unfortunate women, having deprived of them health or having taken away life.
The eightieth years will come considerably to change the attitude to parameters of female figure. During this period the sports constitution, the strong driven hands and legs, high growth is welcomed. The woman works hard, practically flush with the man, and for this purpose it is necessary to be strong and hardy. It is era of sporting achievements and victories.
Ten years have passed quickly. And already beauty of other character is fashionable. Again the pendulum has shaken towards leanness and thin forms. The woman – the elf, moth. Thin, almost transparent wrists and terrible fragility. It as expensive vase from the thinnest Chinese porcelain. The woman is pensive and artistic. She is air and easy as if cloud. To podiums there are models with hermaphroditic appearance. The thin person Keith Moss becomes subject to imitation and adoration.
Two-thousand years have brought reasonable basis. The beautiful female figure is slender body, but this symmetry has to be harmonious. Without painful leanness. The average size of breast, the tightened hips, harmonious legs, thin hands - all this today signs of the most beautiful female figure. And if the nature has not allocated with these advantages female figure, the developing industry of beauty and esthetic surgery suggest to make corrections and to become absolutely ideal. To every era the beauty. But at all times the identity, charisma, mind and sense of proportion were appreciated. Any woman is beautiful in own way. The main thing, it is necessary to know in what its force. All in hands of the woman. The world was tired of callousness, of theatricality. The world is eager for love! Only this feeling makes the person absolutely ideal in the loving eyes! And when it occurs, the body weight, the leg size, bust measurement is not important any more. There comes the era of mercy to naturalness. So what most beautiful female figure? On this question each certain person will have the only the correct answer.
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