What thigh gaps looked like in 1945

[ZoeHart]

Uh, they might not have thigh gaps but those are still thin woman!

[LeggsBenedict]

Jul 31, 2014 17:58:46 GMT -5 luckydog said:

I always side eye beauty pageants grading athleticism. I can't imagine very thin people being athletic. (Not saying they can't be, but restricting calories that much cannot be healthy. Healthy =/= restricting food.)

I am not in the mood today.

[AmeliaBedelia]

Of course they're thin "by today's standards."

Must we, again, with the thigh gaps?

[WOT?*]

Marilyn

Jayne

Rita

Betty - whose legs were insured for $1M

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 31, 2014 17:58:46 GMT -5 luckydog said:

I always side eye beauty pageants grading athleticism. I can't imagine very thin people being athletic. (Not saying they can't be, but restricting calories that much cannot be healthy. Healthy =/= restricting food.)

Okay, come on.

Just as overweight people can be athletic so can underweight people.

[daisybuchannan]

Even Giselle wouldn't have a thigh gap if she stood with her feet touching.

Positions and angles!

[TrickyBob]

Well thank heavens luckydog knows who is underweight, overweight, who can be athletic and who cannot be without knowing their diet, exercise, or health history. We can all go home now.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 31, 2014 18:12:09 GMT -5 @clarissa said:

Jul 31, 2014 18:09:17 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Okay, come on.

Just as overweight people can be athletic so can underweight people.

AND- thin people can also just be naturally thin and NOT 'underweight'. 

I chose overweight and underweight over skinny and fat. Just keeping the language similar.

[elleblue]

Oh yay. Just what we've been missing today. A weight debate. 

FWIW, I do think it's interesting that none of those obviously thin women have a visible thigh gap. It doesn't mean some women aren't built in such a way that they naturally have one, of course it happens and there's nothing wrong with it. Just as there's nothing wrong with not having one either, which is why but we should perhaps retire that particular "measure" of thinness. 

Eta: apologies for my clunky wording

[lissaholly]

Those women are beautiful, by today's standard and by the standards of 1945 ( obviously if they were beauty contestants). What I really want to know is how this article was presented and received in 1945. I honestly do not believe the standard of beauty changes so much as the attitude of failing to achieve it. Photoshopping makes even the most beautiful woman fall short of her photographed perfection.

[daisybuchannan]

Jul 31, 2014 18:13:27 GMT -5 @clarissa said:

Jul 31, 2014 18:11:39 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Even Giselle wouldn't have a thigh gap if she stood with her feet touching.

Positions and angles!

No, she probably would. It's probably just the way her body is. 

Bitch!

Jk.

[runforrest]

Jul 31, 2014 18:06:18 GMT -5 LeggsBenedict said:

Jul 31, 2014 17:58:46 GMT -5 luckydog said:

I always side eye beauty pageants grading athleticism. I can't imagine very thin people being athletic. (Not saying they can't be, but restricting calories that much cannot be healthy. Healthy =/= restricting food.)

I am not in the mood today.

Right?

luckydog - Anecdote time!  I'm quite thin and was a college track athlete and am training for a marathon right now.  I think I'm quite athletic (despite the rice cake and carrot I restrict myself to daily, of course).

Your comment is just so very wrong.

[circa1978]

They are holding their legs very close together. Obviously, they are lovely in any generation. And I agree, it's all how you're built. When I weigh 145, I'm on the cusp of being overweight on the BMI chart but have a thigh gap. I don't tend to put a lot of value in either as a sense of my own beauty.

[nerdicorn]

I think what I find most interesting is how a "softer" look was preferred back then. They are obviously very slender but there's still a softness. I think having more defined, leaned out looking muscles that show is much more en vogue now. Like that photo of Marilyn in the bikini-- her tummy is flat as a board, but there's no six pack or anything, not even a defined v shaped muscle like you see in a lot of beauty queens now days.

[hopecounts]

Jul 31, 2014 17:58:46 GMT -5 luckydog said:

I always side eye beauty pageants grading athleticism. I can't imagine very thin people being athletic. (Not saying they can't be, but restricting calories that much cannot be healthy. Healthy =/= restricting food.)

Not True. One of my closest friends all through school was and is a size 2, in middle and high school she was super thin (size 2-4) and she would eat my older football playing brothers under the table when she slept over. 
Last time we had dinner with her and her husband she ate as much as my husband and she runs marathons now. She just happens to have a super high metabolism so has a thin body. 
Unlike my poor hypothyroid self.

[nerdicorn]

Jul 31, 2014 19:31:35 GMT -5 annica said:

Is Marilyn's belly button photoshopped off? What is the deal with that? I've noticed this before with other images. Strange thing to cover up.

Yeah it does look wonky. I thought maybe it had to do with the photo itself getting kind of messed up before it could be scanned? Maybe they photoshopped off her abs?

CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF MARILYN HAD A SIX PACK?

[sofamonkey]

Just FYI

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[elleblue]

Uh oh. 

[snickers]

I just wish people thought thighs like DD has were cute on adults. Then I would be set for life.
Not so much.

[nerdicorn]

Vagina tightness is related to general muscle tone and your pelvic floor, as well as some mental contributions. It has nothing to do with bone structure unless your vaginal and pelvic muscles have been magically replaced by bone.

[Marle]

I remember thigh gaps being a bad thing when I was growing up. My dance teacher used to tell us we should exercise this muscles to close the gap.