Thursday, November 29, 2012

Bathing suits and Body Image

This shouldn't surprise me. Bathing suits and body image are clearly linked today and women face relentless pressure about conforming to a particular body image; a process encouraged and abetted by the weight loss industry. And yet I am a little surprised at how early that process started; as this advertisement from the Toronto Daily Star indicates, it was already well underway in 1908 and the bathing beauty as a model of appearance had already been established.

("Reduce your fat," Toronto Daily Star, Tuesday, August 4, 1908, Page 10)

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