Its not the hot peope who make it into media - is the unique people. Right now celebrities are thin because thin girls are less common. Back then celebrities were chubby because chubby girls were more rare. For example if you observe paintings from the 1500s - 1800s - the beautiful people look morbidly obese - since everybody was starving back then - fat people - morbidly obese people - were considered beautiful because they were harder to find. Its also why fewer ethnic people survive in the modelling industry - since North Americans tend to view most Chinese people as looking identical to other Chinese people - they are less unique to white people than white people are which is why unique white people make it more as models in North America..
They did. Except that a good amount of them have more class, and more women today I can't even call them women. Makes me almost be ashamed to be one. They was a lot more healthier. And they didn't diet like crazy. The self-esteem was a lot better. Now everybody's depressed. Or woman trying to behave more like men.
I'm beginning to think some of that depression is a result of our environment with all the hormones and chemicals in our foods. Most of our food is processed which makes it worse, along with BPA in plastics, and stuff in our water. It is probably why girls go into puberty faster than in the 50's and have boobs by the 6th grade. And some of those are big. I remember one girl when I was in the 6th grade and she must have had 36C's at least. I didn't have any boobs to speak of until I was in the 9th grade. The other part of depression is feeling that your looks and body do not stand up to the more popular girls or may be bullied. I don't think that kid of stuff happened that much in the 50's and 60's.
It's more than that. From what my grandmother's and my aunt's had said, it was not like this. Things have changed far too drastically. It's less to do with body image and more to due with sexualized culture that keeps getting over sexualized. Like they said, it was not out in the open, it was behind closed doors. And girls had better self esteem about themselves with better families.
We've got widely publicly accepted promotion of plastic surgery, steroids, starvation/purging and the acceptance of muscular women- also more revealing clothing which pressures girls to be harder on themselves when comparing themselves to the plastic and stick skinny models.
Practices are just different between then and now. 50's there was a lot of emphasis in conforming to the norm and just being a housewife. The 60's was sort of the start towards the transformation that we see women have gone through over the years. The trends are different, how socially acceptable things have become, the empowerment women have gone through and the backlash and setbacks really feed into what we see now. A lot of things just play big roles into how many women look, act and live in today's world.
Actually i love them, these are real beauties were women were truly beautiful, nothing artificial injected inside their bodies, everything a man touched in his wife was natural...
It was all great until the beginning of the 2000's
These girls remind me of marlyn monroe when she stood on the sidewalk with a fan beneath her making her dress fly high while she's singing "i wanna be loved by you" 😄
Yep. plastic surgery came in the end 1800 early 1900 for war injuries victims. was something that begun to be standard for new actors before put in to circulation to become famous, many did get under the knife, not everyone, that wasn't something they did official talk about back then and wasn't a fashion industry then like it was in the 80's. even some very famous male actors back then did have nose surgery.
On Marilyn Monroe did the chin inplant disappear or gotten removed later in her career. very noticeable in early movies with a more pointy and sharp one and later no pointy one.
It was a different time than and it wasn't accepted by the public because of that did they try to keep it a secret for every actor otherwise didn't they get famous. (Vanity was a shame and gotten shamed)
The "hard body" trend didn't start until later. I don't remember when for sure but I think it was at least the late 70s, probably later. So yea, women up until at least the late 70s were a softer build. Even athletic women were softer because they didn't put in effort for low body fat. Low body fat was not even something you heard about.
Keep in mind that all these gyms like you see now are fairly new. For much (most?) of my life they didn't even exist. Those gyms are a fairly new yuppie thing.
On average, women in the past were probably more toned than today. There was far less obesity, they did more work, and were more active all around. The small minority today who go to the gym are the exception.
I don't think that exercising is something that girls did back then, I think it was more important to focus on other things. I think stereotypes were more about men using fitness. Although I could be wrong...
ok so never mind... maybe not as many as today.. but I don't know because I was not born in that decade :)
honestly, I've seen some old photos where girls were sexy as hell. I think there were just so many girls publicized that don't fit our current beauty standards that we think women were less attractive. I just think what's considered sexy has changed. Like big butts.
I think women had to do a lot less to be sexy back then. Guys cared more about making her their girlfriend or wife, than just screwing her Nowadays a lot of women just want to get screwed by a really hot successful guy. The best way to do that is too look as sexy as possible.
Trends are always changing. Women were not expected to be muscular beacause men preferred to dominate them. They were mere objects in a society that could be picked up when beautiful and then thrown away. Anywho beauty standards are constantly evolving, so thicker women were hot back then until we started to show more skin people realized all of the little flaws and had to adjust to wearing less clothes by getting fit and toned.
On average they were much more slim. Obesity rates have increased dramatically.
When it comes to your examples those are not representative. It's more of a representation of what the dimension of an adult model would be. Even then the selected modern blonde porn star is slimmer than the norm.
I don't think it was widely accepted for a woman to openly take care of themselves and there health. Men had that suppressed and under wraps. She was to stay home, cook and clean, and make babies for the men! That was about it. Up until a lot women started the push back. And feminism took off. Then they started doing what they wanted to do..
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Look at pictures of nudists from that era compared to nudists today. There were plenty of beautiful women in the 50's & 60's.
1966 promotional still of Welch in the deerskin bikini "became a best-selling poster and turned her into an instant pin-up girl". One of the absolute hottest pictures of all time and that wasn't even my time.
Yes. Natalie Wood. I think she looks beautiful in that picture and her figure is timeless IMHO. I am not a fan of toothpick arms or anything for that matter.
I disagree. Women on average today (and men too) are more obese. The obese levels are sky high. These photos aren't a true indication of today's women. For some reason is people think really thin women are sexy. A friend of mine said she wanted to be size zero. I was shocked.
Sizes are an artificial construct. I think my SO wears a size 0, 2, or 4 depending on what she is buying. She is definitely not skin and bones. She is also the average height.
Yes, they were. They were also very conscious about themselves then just as women are today. There just simply wasn't media exposure back then that gave so much emphasis & importance to what was trending.
But girls today are more shapely than back then. What is different today then what is was back then? Or is it that the media and sites like Instagram just shows us this? I'm sure most girls today look like they did in the 50's and 60's.
The standards & the trends were different back then. Still, the awareness already existed. Unfortunately, to many in today's societies, what was sexy in the past such as the paler skin tones they proudly displayed in those decades probably doesn't appeal as much now. (I also think "skinny" was "disturbing" then.) With the emergence of body positive movements, plus-sized women with an attractively-tanned skin tone are breaking through into the sexy spotlight.
I actually find them more real, natural and healthy than women nowadays. They had natural beauty Also note, that women then had less cellulite than modern women. That's because they didn't processed food, sweets or foods with pesticides The ideal body nowadays: skinny but at the same time toned with big boobs and a big b**t is unhealthy and unattainable for the average woman..
Being a big girl myself I would have to agree with this. Our fast food and processed foods add to this. Back then they didn't have microwaves or all the packaged foods and dinners were home prepared from scratch with fresh ingredients.
Exactly. Frankly, I find this modern Instagram culture and its obsession with a$$es gross. Nowadays, girls are obsessed with dieting and weight-lifting (I mean exercising is good for your health but there's a difference between that and exercising to get a big a$$ and fit a certain standard), wear these yoga pants and other tacky clothes. There's something cheap about this whole culture; not sure if you get what I mean
I think they were just as sexy. It's just that the fashion wasn't as revealing during those old times. If you took the average woman from the 50s and dressed her up in short shorts and a crop top, she would be just as attractive as the average modern woman.
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They did have sex appeal and how many men these days crave for stockings and suspenders which were the normal attire when we were growing up. After that came mini-skirts and hot pants in the sixties which was accompanied by the pill and the sexual revolution. It was the best of sexy times
This is because in the 50's/60's working out wasn't really a thing. That only really took off in the 70's/90's back in Arnold Schwarzeneggers golden days.
Women started going to the gym, eating better and jogging. Its no surprise the standard is much more fit today.
Fashion has also changed, these days clothing shows off the body a lot more, so a nice body is more important.
This is one of those things that is subjective and depends on who you ask. What was attractive and the style back then is not really the same as it is now
There were some very fit women back then, the issue is beauty standards changed, so what is featured has changed. But look at sports or dance photos from the 20s and 30s by the way it's magazines that set those standards.
I think they were more sexy personally. They were more feminine. More traditional. They left something to the imagination. They weren’t as superficial, and they dressed more attractively.
That subjective the real difference is women today have become more open and show off more they are also more sexualized than they used to be that one in the green bikini is so hot
Fitness was not normal in these times, the fitness revolution started in the 60's and it was extremely weird for people. Sedentary lifestyle was too ingrained into peoples lives at the time.
fashion trends were different. put the average women in clothes from that era and they would look like any other woman from that era. As previously noted, today's average woman is probably a little heavier than they were in that era.
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