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If you got it from online, there is no reason why you shouldn't include the link so we may verify that a) you aren't making it up, and b) it's not a garbage website like a personal blog where the author makes things up.
In fact, the average waist measurement of the four Monroe dresses was a mere 22 inches, according to Lisa Urban, the Hollywood consultant who dressed the mannequins and took measurements for me. Even Monroe’s bust was a modest 34 inches.
That’s not an anecdote. That’s data.
The other actresses’ costumes provided further context. “It’s like half a person,” marveled a visitor at the sight of Claudette Colbert’s gold-lame “Cleopatra” gown (waist 18 inches). “That waist is the size of my thigh,” said a tall, slim man, looking at Carole Lombard’s dress from “No Man of Her Own” (a slight exaggeration -- it was 21 inches). Approaching Katharine Hepburn’s “Mary of Scotland” costumes, a plump woman declared with a mixture of envy and disgust, “Another skinny one.”
The pattern she noticed was real. At my request, Urban took waist measurements on garments worn by 16 different stars, from Mary Pickford in 1929 (20 inches) to Barbra Streisand in 1969 (24 inches). The thickest waist she found was Mae West’s 26 inches in “Myra Breckinridge,” when the actress was 77 years old.
It has been noted that Marliyn Monroe, who was held up as the ideal of female beauty in the 1940s and 1950s would be "too fat" to get a modeling job today.
BUAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHEH.
If average women had bodies *anywhere* near like Ms. Monroe today, they would be much more attractive.
I used it as an example because men who are tall is a preference the vast majority of women in this world have regardless of race, area they grew up in, or culture. I don't think it's a matter of brainwashing by the media because even before we had media tall men was the ideal. There was NEVER a point in history where shorter men were seen as more attractive then taller guys
While tall is a preference, it doesn't mean it is a deciding factor though. Simply because a guy is tall, it doesn't make him attractive.
My dad was very tall. I don't think I ever got the impression that women were falling all over him to date him before he met my mom...anything but.
Certain members of the forum. Not all of them agree with that, however.
To say that looks don't matter is a huge oversimplification, especially for younger women.
I have a high school age teenaged daughter. One of her classmates, a guy she has known since kindergarten has suddenly morphed into a guy that looks like a slightly overweight sedentary thirty year old. I'm sure he is a nice guy, but I'm sure that his appearance is just as limiting to him in the dating world as it would be for a girl who is overweight.
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