I Made A Historically Accurate Video Of Women’s Beauty Through The Decades
It was supposed to be just another “Beauty Through The Decades” video. I saw lots of them before, but they all have seemed to show beauty standards in a very stereotypical and pop-culture way, so I wanted to do a more historically accurate one.
As I was doing some research, I became more and more aware that beautiful faces and fashion we see on the photos, ads and fashion plates are just an idealistic version of reality. So here’s to reality.
It was hard for me to make this video universal and find some papers referring to the whole Europe or even the whole world, so the numbers I used may be a little misleading. If you know any other specific numbers referring to a wider cultural context I’d be more than grateful.
In 1901 Almost 40% Of Factory Workers Were Female
1910 – The “Titanic Era”
1910s Was A Time Of The Suffragette Movement
1920 Silent Cinema Actresses
In 1920s One In Every Nine Women Worked In Domestic Service
1930 Cinematic Femme Fatales
1933 Was The Great Depression’s Lowest Point
1940 Betty Grable Style
In 1945 There Were More Than 21,000 Nurses In The US Army. Please, Don’t Forget Real Women
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Interesting, but you are wearing make-up, with tailored eyebrows, in all of these pictures - for some of these eras that's not historically accurate. I do think that the putting forward as natural with no make-up of photos where women ARE wearing make-up gives girls growing up a lot of unnecessary worry about their blotchy skin, and their entirely natural appearance, because they think they are not normal.
Interesting, but you are wearing make-up, with tailored eyebrows, in all of these pictures - for some of these eras that's not historically accurate. I do think that the putting forward as natural with no make-up of photos where women ARE wearing make-up gives girls growing up a lot of unnecessary worry about their blotchy skin, and their entirely natural appearance, because they think they are not normal.
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