The most famous blondes in Hollywood, who were considered the standards of female beauty in the 1950s (15 photos)

How the ideal of female beauty changed in Hollywood: from fragile beauty to chocolate bbw

For the most part, we are used to seeing cinema as entertainment. Nevertheless, it is also a powerful conductor of ideology, ranging from political ideas to the standards of human relations. As an art that makes extensive use of visuals, cinema has actively shaped the concept of feminine beauty. However, the heroines of different eras themselves actively promoted the images they created at the "dream factory". Let's track the evolution of the ideals of female attractiveness using popular

How the standards of female beauty in Russia changed: why did they blacken their teeth, whitened with lead and other fashion trends of the past

Despite the cult of individuality, individuality and dissimilarity, modern women strive to be "no worse than others." Beauty standards are adaptive preferences imposed from the outside, but the beautiful half of humanity invariably strives to adjust itself to them. Such a desire has been characteristic of women at all times, and not only now, when the canons of attractiveness are changing at the speed of light

Socialites, actresses and brothel dwellers: Women who were considered the standard of beauty 100 years ago

Each generation of people creates its own beauty canons. In the first half of the 20th century, thanks to the advent of accessible photography and cinema, new standards of female attractiveness began to form. Since that time, the media began to create and disseminate stereotyped ideas about what is beautiful and what is not. Therefore, old photographs of actresses, singers and courtesans are all the more valuable because they preserve the memory of that femininity and beauty that were not imposed on people from blue

The first trolleybuses of Leningrad: Why they were considered an attraction, but they were almost allowed into the war along Ladoga

In pre-war Leningrad, the trolleybus was considered a high-comfort transport - it was expensive, but the townspeople were ready to pay for it. Even despite the fact that once a trip in a trolleybus turned into a disaster for passengers, claiming 13 lives. Comfortable and roomy cars that do not require gasoline worked in the city even during the blockade. They even wanted to let them in Ladoga and it was quite feasible

Yvon de Carlo: 1950s beauty fatal that Hollywood directors loved to shoot in horror films (30 photos)

The life of this Hollywood actress of the middle of the last century cannot be called simple. As a child, she was raised by her grandmother, since her mother was engaged in arranging her personal life. After graduating from dance school in Hollywood, she worked in a club, from where she had to leave due to the fact that the owner insisted that she dance topless. Success catches up with Yvonne after the movie "The Ten Commandments" in 1956, where she played the role of the wife of Moses. This fatal beauty has a sea of fans and