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Slenderizing Salons of the 1940s

You thought zumba and ashtanga yoga were torture enough in the pursuit of youth and fitness? Be grateful you didn’t

Of all the top models of the 1950s Dovima is perhaps the most well-known. Her fabulously unique model name came

Everybody knows the beautiful green cigarette packets with a beautiful woman on the front dressed up in a tiger suit.

After the interest in Marilyn Monroe’s measurements (and the debate about whether she was really a size 16) I thought

Marilyn Monroe’s measurements There’s a lot of discussion about whether Marilyn Monroe really was a size 16, and whether that

A gorgeous fur trimmed jacket and skirt photographed in 1966. Source and copyright:This file is licensed under the Creative Commons

Video by William Claxton in 1967. Models: Peggy Moffitt, Léon Bing, Ellen Harth. Fashions by Rudi Gernreich. Hair by Jacques