[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[KSCITYBOY]

People are heavier in general. More food less physical work etc...

[chajin]

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.

Now that's true, partly because of the change in diet from then to now, and partly because people actually walked down streets back then, rather than driving everywhere. When I am walking the dog, the only people who are walking also have dogs, and most of the time I am the only person walking on the street.