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have women evolved that much?
i've noticed that in movies/pictures from like 100 years ago, women had extremely small waists (like 20 inch waists). i was wondering if they were just wearing corsets that made them extra skinny, or if they were just naturally that skinny? because i'm 15/f, 5'3", and my waist is like 28 inches, and my friends are the same. have women evolved that much?
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well there are many different cases like sometimes women where there shirts extra skinny so they look skinny,or sometimes there waist really are llike that,and then there is this wonderfull thing called "photo retouching"and tjhat means it dosnt matter if she is the fatest lady in the world ,after the retouching is done,she could be the skinniest.we may never know what pictures are or arent real
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100 years ago, having a photograph taken was a much more major event than it is now. People did whatever they could to look as good as possible for the camera, and that included the infamous corset.
Women and men were also generally a little smaller back then, due to less adequate nutrition and inferior medical care.
A 28" waist on a 5'3 inch woman is certainly not large. I'd say it's a little smaller than average, and all other things being equal perfectly healthy. That's actually the same measurements to be found on my wife, and I've always found her to be of beautiful proportions.
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they were skinny AND wore corsets which made them even skinnier,so,no woman havent evolved much
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no. i don't think that they evolved that much in such a short period of time. it was a long time ago, but not so much for a huge difference. but, yes women wore corsets all the time. they were whale-bone corsets but they were very bad for you because they weren't like the "corsets" we have today or the weight reducers. they would push your organs down. but, i believe the smallest record for the waist was 13 inches. i think. hope i helped. *muaz* xoxo
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One hundred years ago nearly all women where using corsets to cinch their waists. The corset was very popular until the 1920's and was still used by women as late as the 1960's. Corsets aren't as ancient as people seem to think.
So, it's not about evolution at all, naturally those women were shaped much like we are, it's about social convention: from the 1700's to 1900 nearly every European women wore a corset. The corset originally fell from use because a more natural shape was thought more attractive and achieved with the use of elastic and panty hoes instead. Then the corset stayed away as women began to see them as torture devices of the old male-dominated world.
Women haven't evolved (although the civilized world as a whole has certainly gained weight) just our fashions have changed. Squeezing ourselves down to a 16 inch waist no longer determines our marriage prospects.
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