Body Issues will Always be Trending

In contrary to popular belief, bodies are not mistakes we should aspire to correct. The ideal body is a changing trend that will make you feel inadequate for as long as you try to follow to it. 

Making the Mark

I do take sneaky peeks when I come across a diet article or fashion advice on “my body type” in magazines, I admit. After reading selected tidbits, I slap over the page with a how-dare-you-degrade-women-so apparent attitude.

No matter the degree, I too try to hide, improve and correct my body just like diet-proud people. We feel like our bodies are far from the mark of ideal beauty. The silly thing is the mark has been adjusted so many times in history.

The Mark through the Ages

Cute little round bellies was the epitome of female beauty in the 13^th century.  In the 1500's women wore steel corsets that covered their breasts to make them appear flat-chested.

For a few centuries since the 1500’s, big butts, was textbook beauty. Small hips made their debut, in the 1920’s, and even then it was too early. Deprivation caused by World War II quickly places well fed shapes back on the pedestal in the 1930’s and 40’s.

Finally Twiggy ensured the place of skinny beauty by the 60’s. A bustier look was idealized with the 70’s and only by the 1980’s the fit body, with minimal curves, was commercialized. Ever since the 1980’s weight loss had become fashion. This trend still reigns as one of the tick boxes to acquire the perfect millennium body.

A Fleeting Fashion Statement

At one point a certain shape might be the most desirable, but it's just a fleeting fashion statement. These fashions inflict grief, because we are not aware of how they're just fabricated ideals. 

More so in this day and age, where media functions as a vehicle to hastily popularize body fashions for corporate gain.One can compare the  “perfect body” with Spice Girl platforms. Both are popularized by marketers and both can be promoted by a girl band.  

A body is not a mistake. Trying to fit into this year’s mold is.