Body Image In Australia

The media’s concept of the ideal body image isn’t static, so much that in less than 10 years we have an ideal that contrasts so much with the previous decade, they are practically opposites! This is seen in a recurring pattern over the years, most prominently seen in the 1900s. To make it worse the body image ideal of most admired models have grown gradually slimmer, dipping far into an unhealthy weight that is far beyond the the grasp of the average Australian woman, representing a nearly impossible ideal.Men’s ideal body image made a slight detour in the path towards perfection, beginning with the ideal of a voluptuous body figure then proceeding to the waifish figure in the 60s then finally settling on the ripped muscle man in the present. This does not apply to all beauty ideals but when slightly more voluptuous figures were in trend particularly in the ancient times, we were introduced to other beauty standards that made it equally

It was brought to life with many actresses as well as models, such as Camille Clifford the original Gibson Girl who told others to “Wear a blank expression and a monumental curl and walk with a bend in our back then they will call you the Gibson Girl”. The Gibson Girl had to be slender and tall, with a “voluptuous” bust and wide hips, they wore corsets that pinched the torso and the waist in order to emphasise their slender torso and voluptuous bust line.Women were expected to have long necks, sloped shoulders while still being physically active and in good health. The Gibson Girl was not dainty, she was dark, regal in bearing and quite tall. The Gibson Girl was the female body standard in the 1910s glamorizing female independence and delicacy while not straying far from previous female body standards.The Gibson Girl standard was difficult to achieve and based off an illustrator’s