Relax – skinny is out of style (1974)
If you're making yourself miserable because you can't diet your size-12 figure down to a size 8, relax. Skinny is out of style.
Women: How to gain weight (1918)
Hot chocolate. Roast beef. Bread with butter. Naps. No, this isn't the ideal vacation, but tips on how to gain weight from a famous actress of long ago.
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? (1950)
"Rule of 10" will help gauge your figure
Do you know the ideal measurement for your figure? John Robert Powers tells you how to calculate them!
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The perfect woman’s figure (1938)
The perfect 1938 figure must have curves, but it differs from the perfect figure of past decades in relationship of curves to straight lines.
Why corsets were a multi-million dollar industry even back in 1888
An Eastern corset dealer, who has in his time evidently written editorials for a circus, claims that his corset makes any thin figure a vision of loveliness, baffling description, and defying exaggeration.
Actresses with tiny, tiny waists (1902)
A screwed-in waist is not compatible with ease and grace of movement, and, accordingly, unnaturally small waists find no favor before the footlights.
How even office girls can look like fashion models (1913)
Office girls as shapely as models
Is the working girl to be barred from the Venus contest now in progress, and which has already reached from Buffalo... Click to read more...
The weight, height & measurements of the ‘perfect’ American woman (1905)
The perfect American woman
Measuring 50,000 of her sex to determine a standard
The perfect American girl -- how big around; how much does she weig... Click to read more...
