KK pt 2
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The first time i saw KK was when she was being compared to Lindsay Lohan, LL was bone thin and looked absolutely terrible, the media was publicisising her as an anorexic and trashing her about it, printing that KK was not starving herself and she was happy. Since then everywhere i look ive been bombarded with images of KK's continously widening frame. At first i didnt mind i thought "Yeah, you go girl!" "Its about time that a woman bigger than a size 8 got some positive media"
In the months that followed it became a popular news debate, were big girls making a comeback? Is 12 the new 10? It seems though that we never really got an answer. Everyone seemed so excited that fashion was going to change, the world was going to revolutionise, which got me thinking, in the 1700's you were only beautiful if you were pear shaped, then later in the early 1800's was the corset era, giving women a triangular like frame, the genaral idea of this was to hide a womans body so large breasts were the only thing that were likely to tempt the men. Then as we came to the mid 1800's where curvy women with big hips were all the rage, corsets became impracticle at this point and clothing sizes were developed. Later on in the 1800's this progressed to hour glass shaped women and sparked the development of beauty culture in the United States.
Coming into the 1900's the hourglass shaped women with tiny waists and larger breasts and hips gets toned down dramatically and the rectangle or "tower" shaped women take the lead, women began shaving there armpits and the first Miss America Pagaent is held in 1921.
As we come to the middle of the 19th century Marilyn Monroe takes America by storm and the hourglass figure re-emerges as the ideal woman, shaven legs also become popular at this point and large breasts are made popular by pin up girls
This ideal thins out through the 1970's and we see a repeat of the 1920's for a short period before the death of Karen Carpenter in the 1980's which raises awareness of eating disorders and in turn ushers in the popularity of muscle tone, this is the point where we begin to see alot more diversity in popular culture, muscular women are prominet but also popular is the thin boyish figured women and also voluptious women retain their poularity.
So if you havent already guessed the moral of the story is that we shouldnt be singling out certain shapes or sizes, claiming them to be the newest trend because throughout the centuries its already come, gone and come back again, if we really want to take a leap forward we should be recognising beauty in all its forms and we should let people decide for themselves exactly what it is or isnt. Also the only place its appropriate to love someone one day (ie thin girls) and the next day criticise them because now you think you like something different is kindergarden, because thats what children do, and come to think of it, that actually makes sense now.
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