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[Tony_Balony]

Sophie and Liz were making movies when I was growing up, this thread is about my senses be accosted by fashion and contemporary impressions of beauty that occured before I had my tastes thrust on me by the media I was subjected to when growing up.

Sophie is A++, Liz is much less than B+.

[Alyallen]

[Samantha]

What about the more natural women? The sex symbols of the past used to be bigger fuller figured women, I mean Marilyn Monroe would have been a size 14 in today's clothes, for most women that is fat almost obese if you ask them. For her time that was pretty average.

Could that be part of the problem Tony? You've become so used to the modern fashion/society dictates that says an attractive female must be 100-140lbs (50-70 kilos) or she's "an obese cow"?

There was a time when the skinny little things that are fashionable now would have been told to eat something and people would be worried that they were sick. I know it all goes in cycles and eventually the skinny chicks will go out of fashion and things will swing back towards the voluptuos side.

And before assumptions are made yes I am one of the big girls, but I don't care...it's taken me many years to come to the point where I don't care if someone thinks I'm fat or not, that's their issues not mine .

Look at these examples: (as far as I know these are all natural women, with only girdles to help/support the figures...I don't think they did a lot of air brushing at the time) They have curves, and aren't really worried about it. This is before wonderbras, these women wore the heavy duty lunch lady, extreme bras to keep themselves where they needed to be.

Jayne Mansfield


Sophia Loren


Mamie Van Doren


Bettie Page (I know already mentioned but still worth a nod)

[harryh]

A young Gina Lollobrigida sent men's pulses racing. Sexy woman.

[Samantha]

[harryh]

Thanks

[Tony_Balony]

Hi - I'm fonder of wider curvier women but I think its the fashions and styles. I'm awed by the disparity of attraction between now and then.
I'm a Jane Mansfield fan. I like her more than Marilynn.

I start losing interest pre 1941-ish and I just wonder why.

[Samantha]

harryh- welcome

Tony- so what about the latest examples? Also, what time period exactly are you referring to as "long ago"? You said:

[Tony_Balony]

Hi... I dont want to date me but I'll give you the clue "Cuban Missle Crisis"

My age is irrelevent to the discussion, its the phenomena that matters. My op was bad in that I used my age as a delimiter. That was bad. More correctly is what was presented to me as contemporary. The film "The Ten Commandments" was presented as comtemporary even tho it was made in 1956. I started seeing that movie when I was ten so the film was nearly 20 years old and still not an "old" movie. Yul Brenner was in that film and he was in later films The Magnificent Seven and Westworld so he was contemporary even tho some of his films were made before I was born. There seems to be a slur time in popular culture. Is the movie "Alien" a new film? It is to me, kind of.

Gina Lollobrigida is A++.

There is a film "actress" named Viviana that I liked alot. She made films
Peter North.

[Samantha]

Ok so '62 if my memory serves. So that means the big sex symbols would have been from the mid 50s as the up and comers, and the late 40s as the icons. Putting about my Dad's age (sorry to make you feel old he'll be 62 in June). Am I close in my logic?

So what about Raquel Welch (I think I have the right woman, the caveman movie, 5000 BC or something like that) I remember seeing a pin-up girlie poster of her in the animal print one piece thing.

Isn't this also the time period for the beignning of the whole Playboy centerfolds and the cupcake magazines?

The only reason I'm asking is because the when you grew up and what was held to be the standard has bearing on why someone (or one type of female body) is more appealing than another one. Personally I know that I am attracted to one type of guy more than another because it's what I grew up with and what was first presented to me as being a "good example of beauty".

[normalcyispasse]

Oh man, Audrey Hepburn -- there's nobody more gorgeous. And you're not turned on by those big eyes?

[bassexpander]

Amazing that this thread is allowed to live after the thread I put up was deleted. I guess it is true about certain people having it in for me.

[Samantha]

what was your thread about?

[Easter Clark]

When were you born, Tony?



I concur with the other posters who mentioned Audrey Hepburn. She was a goddess. Any picture you find of her is art.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

This thread needs -- nay, demands -- more Claudia Cardinale.