Dressed: The History of Fashion The Body: Fashion & Physique, an interview with Emma McClendon
Mar 20, 2018
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Fashion's Body Ideals Are Mutable
- The fashion industry's ideal body often implies bodies are inherently wrong and need changing to fit clothes.
- Clothing highlights different body types over time, but the expectation to conform feels fixed in each era.
Who Defines Ideal Bodies?
- Many factors contribute to defining ideal bodies, including designers, media, retailers, and museums.
- Museums and media perpetuate narrow ideals by displaying and promoting specific body types and sizes.
Impossible Body Standards Are Fabricated
- Beauty guides and measurement charts are fabricated to make women feel they aren't good enough as they are.
- Body standards shifted drastically in short spans, revealing their arbitrary nature.