“Making women look like skinny twinks usually”
My mother, born in 1917, had a collection of antique women’s outfits and fashion magazines from when they started in the late teens. Going into WWI, women were completely covered with layers of clothing. Then the first fashion magazines started and they featured clothing created in Paris. The problem was the women then considered fashionable were Rubenesque. Rubens was a painter who liked “full figured” women. Those women didn’t look good in the fashions then coming off the drawing tables. So, to fix this, they used young boys as models for the new clothes. My mother showed me the pictures and, yes, you could tell. Boys. Not girls. Not women. Boys.
I was young and I asked her why this was so. She told me that the fashion designers were most likely homosexuals and they didn’t like women. To look good in the flappers* you had to basically look like a two-by-four.
OMG!
