We all knew that fashion trends changed continuously, and sometimes, it would take less than a year for something to fade into the background. It was a well-known fact that Pinterest boards had a challenging time keeping up with all the industry changes, but it was not only outfits that fluctuated. The ideal female body type had gone through several trends and fads, and browsing through magazines could prove how it quickly changed.
The Gibson Girl Of The ’10s
It used to be too expensive to publish photos on the covers and pages of magazines and back then, the companies would pay illustrators to show what they wanted to portray. Charles Gibson was a renowned women’s magazine illustrator and created the image we included for this portion. Charles decided to show rich women wearing tight corsets to achieve the ramrod-straight posture and hourglass figure.