Ideals of feminine beauty, which adhered to the ladies of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, came to us in the sculptures of the classical era. Athletic, toned body with well-developed muscles, a small but muscular chest. This, however, is not surprising - in the Era of Sciences Greeks even ideal body proportions was calculated mathematically. By the way, then became fashionable bleaching hair - so dark-haired Greek women trying to stand out from the crowd. His round, though small chest girls loved to stress zones and often leave no cover.
Ancient East
But in ancient China and Japan since time immemorial valued minimalism. In all - in growth, in the proportions in size feet. Even then, Japanese and Chinese women tied up and bandaged legs, often before breaking bones of the foot - the leg had to be small. Face thick whitewashed, and eyebrows ink supply.
The era of chivalry
Knights were the ladies hearts slender, fragile whites girls with high foreheads open. Women often shaved part of the hair to the forehead touched above. Somehow in fashion was the stomach, round and bulging, as if pregnant, so a special outfit sometimes underlay pads.
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages brought women into the exterior of significant changes. Any curvy seductive forms were declared a sin, and in order to redeem it, the unfortunate girls were forced to pull their bodies tight corset, so that the body was completely flat. The church had a profound effect on society, and women are constantly fasting, why it often looked like a skeleton with pale skin. That these ladies men found most attractive. And, of course, no reddishnesses and freckles - woman risked to be on fire of the Holy Inquisition.
Renaissance
The revival of the classical canons greatly facilitated the existence of women. Now they were required curvy rounded shapes, sometimes even excessively lush, what we can see on the canvases of painters of the era.
Baroque style
Wayward Catherine de Medici decided that her ladies waist should be no less than 33 centimeters. Of course, this fashion has spread beyond the palace. Women began to resemble a miniature porcelain figurines, they re-starved and slimming waist to impossibility. Their outfits were too pretentious, like everything else in the Baroque style. Were extremely unpopular basic hygiene, all the dirt girl tried to hide under tons of powder and whiting. From which the mud on the body only became more and lice from the hair had to comb combs.
Age 18-19
Fashion for hygiene returned, the girls were well-groomed, slim but with appetizing forms. Fashion for thinness is gone. Basically, in these centuries changed only styles of dresses. However, the unusual happened anyway. In the 18th century in Russia for some reason it was fashionable black teeth coal whiten the face, then their ruddy, the ink supply eyebrows.
In the 19th century these strange fashions gone. By the way, the dress with open neckline that we can see in films and serials of that era, ladies allowed themselves extremely rare. At home they were closed modest outfits. Hair usually gathered in tight beautiful hairstyles with curls and nodes.
20th Century
In the 20th century women felt finally free. In particular, the freedom of choice appearance. In fashion were now a healthy lifestyle, sport, tan, convenient, and sometimes even men's clothing. Figure of a woman regains smartness, Sport, on sale there are more and new types of makeup.
A real revolution in the ideal of female beauty has made the model Twiggy - painfully thin, with short hair and big eyes. Now become the benchmark figure of undernourished adolescent, fragile, with small breasts.
Even now, the ideal of feminine beauty continues to be influenced by that time. However, more and more women are concerned about proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, so that the modern ideal can be formulated as: Fit athletic figure, smooth skin color, harmony in colors, and most importantly - well-groomed.