Everyone knows that beauty standards change over time. This rule also applies to fashion for the size of the female breast. Many modern men imagine the ideal girl as a busty beauty. But half a century ago, their tastes were different. Bra fashion research conducted by lingerie brand Bluebella over the past 50 years shows that women's breasts have grown from size 2 to size 5 on average. How did the fashion for this spicy part of the female body change?
Ancient times
Judging by the figurines about 20-10 thousand years ago, a full female figure with large breasts was considered ideal. Fashion was conditioned by the fact that huge breasts are associated with the ability to feed a dozen children. The main "trend" then was survival, not beauty.
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During the existence of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the III-II millennium BC on the territory of Crete and Balkan Greece, a woman already began to perform not only a childbearing function, but became an object of admiration. On the objects of art that have survived from that time, you can see that the woman has acquired a slender and graceful figure, as well as athletic high breasts. The fact is that women, along with men, participated in ritual jumping over the bull. High chest of the correct rounded shape spoke of the harmonious development of the physical body. Judging by the proportions, it was about the third size in fashion. To lift their breasts, ladies wore something like a bolero, which shifted the breasts to the center, visually enlarging it.
Middle Ages
Before the Renaissance, a woman had to correspond to Christian concepts of chastity, and a flat-chested girl of a rickety physique without a blush on her cheeks was considered the ideal of beauty. Big-breasted beauties were burned at the stake, because they tempted men and were allegedly accomplices of evil spirits.
Revival and Victorian era
The Renaissance era gave freedom to the female breast, but about the second size was still considered the canon of beauty.
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A fashion for a beautiful shape arose: the chest was dressed in deep necklines and flies were glued on.
In the Victorian era, women's breasts were hidden from men's eyes under clothing and tried to visually reduce its volume.
XX century and today
In the XX century, the era of revolutions began and the fashion of decadence for boyish figures gradually faded away, giving way to busty divas. It is believed that in the 1940s, Japanese representatives of the first ancient profession injected paraffin in their breasts to please the American military. Then came the era of Hollywood and the fashion for the third breast size, which was possessed by Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren …
In the 1960s, the fashion for large breasts came to naught again: the popular size was 34B, that is, an incomplete two. Such parameters were in Jane Fonda, who, despite her modest breast size, became the star of the acclaimed film "Barbarella".
In the 1970s, twiggy girls (under the pseudonym of the then popular model Leslie Lowsen (Twiggy) with the first breast size) came into vogue. Fashion is cyclical and the trend was again the fashion for a tightened figure, which women tried to achieve with the help of Jane Fonda's aerobics.
Still from the movie "Barbarella"
The heyday of plastic surgery in Hollywood came in the 80s. The stars began to actively perform operations to transform the appearance, among which breast augmentation was in the lead. The most trendy was the size 34D. The victim of this fashion was the star of the movie "Splash" Daryl Hannah, and in the 90s her "feat" was repeated by the actress from "Rescuers Malibu" Pamela Anderson. The size of her silicone chest was then 34DD. More and more busty beauties began to appear and girls all over the world wanted to become like these divas.
In the early 2000s, women went to extremes and the fashion for big breasts "grew" along with the silicone busts of celebrities. For example, American Myra Hills implanted 18 kg implants. Jane Fonda also underwent breast augmentation surgery, which she regretted and returned to her natural size.
Still the most popular breast size today is 36DD. This is exactly what the TV star Kim Kardashian has. However, in the past few years, the fashion for huge breasts has gone and a new trend has appeared - body positive. It encourages you to love your body, regardless of the size of different parts of the body.
