Comments on: 1940s ads: Fat-shaming is rooted in skinny-shaming http://www.about-face.org/1940s-ads-fat-shaming-is-rooted-in-skinny-shaming/ Tue, 21 May 2013 13:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ashley http://www.about-face.org/1940s-ads-fat-shaming-is-rooted-in-skinny-shaming/#comment-6143 Ashley Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:16:36 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=9611#comment-6143 Wow. Hm. My body in high school was much like the skinny dark haired woman in the first photo, and even then (in the 90s) I felt I was skinny enough to be considered scrawny and since I didn't have boobs and bootylicious behind, I was just a walking string bean with no sex appeal whatsoever. That type of look might be considered "ideal" in the fashion world, I think people are still turned off by ultra thin and bony girls outside of the industry. They see it as thin is good, but there is a such thing as "too skinny" too. These ads take me back to age 15 again, but still, I understand there we aren't seeing ads like this anymore and that could be partially because the fashion industry has became more mainstream and push upon every day common folk. Wow. Hm. My body in high school was much like the skinny dark haired woman in the first photo, and even then (in the 90s) I felt I was skinny enough to be considered scrawny and since I didn’t have boobs and bootylicious behind, I was just a walking string bean with no sex appeal whatsoever. That type of look might be considered “ideal” in the fashion world, I think people are still turned off by ultra thin and bony girls outside of the industry. They see it as thin is good, but there is a such thing as “too skinny” too.

These ads take me back to age 15 again, but still, I understand there we aren’t seeing ads like this anymore and that could be partially because the fashion industry has became more mainstream and push upon every day common folk.

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