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The changing shape of female fashion models
Author(s) -
Morris Abigail,
Cooper Troy,
Cooper Peter J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198909)8:5<593::aid-eat2260080511>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - bust , waist , period (music) , agency (philosophy) , psychology , demography , medicine , physics , body mass index , environmental science , boom , sociology , acoustics , social science , pathology , environmental engineering
An examination was made of changes over the period 1967–1987 in the physical features of the female fashion models recruited by one agency. A significant increase in height and waist measurement was apparent, and there was a trend for the bust to increase similarly. There was no change in hip measurement over the study period. These findings confirm previous reports of a tendency for models' shapes to have become less curvaceous and correspondingly more tubular.