The Perfect Bodies According To Society – A Century Of Beauty Standards

Everyone has their own idea of what beauty is and looks like. But in society at large, there are general standards, which people will strive to meet. With each decade, some new craze comes about, and the previous one that we all worked so hard to achieve gets forgotten. The world of beauty is a crazy one, and with more than a century of different fads, we would love to now explore them, decade by decade.

The Beginning Of The 20th Century And Its Gibson Girls

There was a time without electronic printers, believe it or not, where printing photographs and magazines, in general, was difficult and unaffordable for most. To deal with this shortage of lifelike images, towards the end of the 1800s, men like Charles Gibson drew incredible illustrations of women for fashion magazines. He would generally capture the likenesses of rich women with high status, portraying them with hourglass figures and immaculate posture. Don't forget, this was a time of extremely restrictive corsets being the thing! This became the personification of the ideal of feminine attractiveness. Having your drawing done by one of these great fashion industry legends was considered a true honor at the time.