Fashion

Fashion The American woman of today can never be too thin or too pretty. In most cases today, thin equates beauty, so the present ideal is a thin, fit, radiantly healthy woman. In magazines stuffed with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on TV, the message of what women should look like is everywhere. From the “sweater girl” of the fifties to the scantily clad Britney Spears, the media has directed the flow of fashion trends, and the inescapable presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today. Depending on the time period, different body types are in and out of style. What was considered “sexy and voluptuous” is now considered “fat”, while what was considered thin and unhealthy now projects the ideal of self control and power. In the developed world the preoccupation with the body and with beauty is intensifying, and the beauty industry, despite nearly thirty years of feminism, is a multi-billion dollar year industry. It is unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines the “ideal woman”. One reason media is so influential is that advertising is a fashion, women, ideal, american, thin, beauty, woman, look, media, industry, images, body, average, today, one, models, magazines, seen, point, percent, out, hours, advertising, years, year, wolf, wear, tv, stereotypes, standards, society, message, marilyn, makeup, feel