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Skipper was launched by Mattel in 1964 as Barbie’s kid sister. Ten years later, Mattel decided that it was about time Skipper hit puberty like the rest of us. That is, if anyone else experienced puberty by rotating their left arm and voila: boobs! In 1975, ‘Growing up Skipper’ led to controversy in the media [...]
Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach, thigh and torso-slimming garment was worn by just about every woman until the 1960s and was cleverly advertised using all types of tactics including before & afters photographs and peer pressure. The trickeries of the before & after format [...]
This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter recently attracting renewed criticism of Barbie’s unrealistic body. The thing is, I was kind of obsessed with Barbie myself. I played for hours with those six-inch pieces of plastic, creating unnecessary drama with Ken and cruising around my bathroom in [...]
“Poses” is the project of spanish artist, Yolanda Dominguez, whose work I’ve been keeping in my vault of goodies for quite a while. In an unapologetic criticism of the absurdity of the fashion industry, Yiolanda uses a group of real women in real life settings to imitate several photographs found in fashion magazine editorials. In [...]
At first, seeing these celebrated paintings which have been photoshopped by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano, would probably leave many women feeling a little disheartened. Isn’t there enough worshiping of the skinny female frame today? Must we manipulate the only form of art left in the world that still honours the beauty of a curvaceous [...]
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With journalism like this, who needs high school bullying? The writers at the DailyMail must be having a great ol’ time at their offices, waiting for photographs of female celebrities to be the butt of their jokes all day, coming up with hilarious punchlines headlines to boot, which if they’re lucky, might drive the celebrities they write [...]
78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why… YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…
This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always
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Here’s something different for a holiday party– Dr. Pepper, as in the cherry cola, served
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I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a
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Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are
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These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air
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In the name of all things stupid, Sony France thought it would be a great idea to market the
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Over here in France, they might not celebrate Halloween as wholeheartedly as some other countries
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Skipper was launched by Mattel in 1964 as Barbie’s kid sister. Ten years later, Mattel
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1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row,
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