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Friday, August 28, 2009

Women Come In Different Sizes


Society has not always had the same body ideals. Historically, the female body ideal varied in the Western world. During the 1700s and 1800s severely tight corsets were used, to enhance a woman's waist after contemporary curvy body ideal.

In the early 1900s mainly women from upper class starve themselves, drinking vinegar and eat arsenic, to be a fragile and bleached appearance. 

During the late 1900s until now, there is a different view of the image of women, with certain body parts that should be oversized or small.  

That in many cases lead to devastating consequences for some women, in their goal to reach the current body ideals.

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