Standards of Female Beauty at All Times

Standards of female beauty at all times

One famous philosopher said: “Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins our hearts in advance.” It is unlikely that there is at least one person now who would like to challenge these words. To be beautiful is the oldest dream of every woman. Perhaps there will be feminists who will say: “What should we do for those whom nature has not endowed with a beautiful figure or an attractive face?” It's very simple - do it yourself. Moreover, every person has something beautiful. You just need to find it and be able to emphasize it.

Skillfully hiding your shortcomings and emphasizing everything that is beautiful is not a masquerade, but a manifestation of the desire for beauty. You can't become beautiful for others if you don't want to be beautiful for yourself. If you didn't sleep well and your mirror reminds you of this in the morning, aren't you upset? If your figure is a little less than ideal, don't you want to improve it? Try doing a set of exercises instead of a heavy breakfast - and you will immediately feel much more confident, even if the results are not yet visible. A person who is used to taking care of himself every day feels much more confident, his self-esteem increases, and he enters into his everyday life more calmly.

All times have had their own criteria and standards of beauty. In Ancient Greece, for example, they talked about a handsome person no less than about a famous commander or statesman. The standard of an absolutely proportionate figure in those days was considered to be the athletic build of a citizen-soldier. For a woman, tall stature, rounded shoulders, a thin waist, an expanded pelvis, a vertical abdominal line and straight, impeccably shaped legs were considered beautiful. The attitude of the Greeks to the human body as the highest symbol of beauty is confirmed by the plastic art of Ancient Greece. Phidias, Praxiteles, Scopas, Leochares, Lysippos and other masters sculpted magnificent images of women, giving their figures the idealized perfection of the gods of Olympus. Let us remember the statues of Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite. The Hellenic standards of beauty and harmony of a perfect body are personified by the marble statue of the goddess of love and beauty Venus de Milo, found on the island of Milos.

For the ancient Egyptians, tall women with broad shoulders, a narrow waist and narrow hips were considered perfect. The idea of ​​beauty in general and the beauty of the female body has changed over the centuries, but has never gone unnoticed by artists and sculptors.

Already in the 15th century, the first treatises devoted to the beauty of women appeared. In them, the authors try to present their standards of beauty related to the shape and size of the shoulders, chest, hips, and waist. One of these treatises said: “The physique of women should be large, strong, but at the same time noble in shape. An extremely tall body cannot be liked, just like a small and thin one... The most beautiful neck is oval, slender, white and without spots... Shoulders should be wide. Not a single bone should be visible on the sternum. The most beautiful legs are long, slender, thin at the bottom with strong snow-white calves, which end in a small, narrow, but not lean foot... The forearms should be white, muscular...”

This ideal underwent some changes over time, and already in the 17th century, in addition to tall stature, developed shoulders and chest, a wasp waist was considered one of the main standards - up to 40 cm in girth. If the waist was actually a little wider, it was pulled into a corset.

In the aristocratic salons of the 18th century, women with a small graceful head, narrow shoulders, a thin and flexible waist, and a rounded hip line were considered ideal. The ideal of beauty for a Russian woman was different: she had to be tall, stately, strong - so that she could perform various difficult women's work.

A new type of female beauty emerged at the beginning of the 19th century. This time brought the Male woman into the arena