Beauty Standard Shifts. Do you really want to be that "beautiful"? See Pictures.
eauty is a characteristic of a person that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. An "ideal beauty" is a person who is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture. Standards of beauty have shifted radically over time. Let’s see how.
1639 - The Three Graces; Pieter Pauwel Rubens
1887 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Bathers
1920 - Thin, short haired flapper.
1950 - Marylin Monroe (Size 14)
1960 - Twiggy Lawson (Aka the beginning of the end.) This was the first time in history that an under weight woman became the standard for the ideal body image.
1970’s - Karen Carpenter (Died in 1983 from heart failure as a complication of Anorexia Nervosa)
1988 - Cosmopolitan
2002 - Harper’s Bazaar
Modern day Fashion Model
Quick point of reference for that last one:
1944 - Nazi Holocaust Victim