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| ("Reduce your fat," Toronto Daily Star, Tuesday, August 4, 1908, Page 10) |
Archival material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and thoughts on Toronto and its waterfront. Undressed, in this case, refers to the bathers who frequented the city's waterfront and rivers in the nineteenth century and more broadly to the city of Toronto itself. My interest is in studying this undressed state of the city and its people and seeing how it changed in the twentieth century.
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.
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