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Women then were more slender and much more feminine.

Feminine (in a 1950s sense), yes, but more slender? I suspect even Twiggy was fatter than most women on most TV dramas. (Reality shows like The First 48 don't count.)

26 posted on 06/19/2015 5:24:20 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)

but more slender? I suspect even Twiggy was fatter than most women on most TV dramas.

I was talking about women in real life, and I was comapring the '50s and early '60s (Honeymooners, Texaco Star Theatre, Burns and Allen, the original Dragnet marking the beginning of the era, Dick Van Dyke and Perry Mason marking the end of the classic BW TV era) to today.

Yes, the young women in the late '60s were still slender, and the women on the '70s crime dramas (Rockford Files) were preternaturally thin. Even Mary Tyler Moore herself became thinner (and less curvy).

What I meant was if you walked down the street in Anytown, USA in 1955, and walked down that same street in 2015, or 1995 for that matter, the women will be fatter.

***even Twiggy was fatter than most women on most TV dramas.***

I don’t think so. I remember everyone talking bout how thin she was even back then.
The only comparison was some girl advertizing a product called Skinny Dip back in the early 1970s.