Beauty Standards

[pen_grunt]

This is from a 1966 issue of "Co-ed" magazine:


I'm confused by the whole thing, really, but in particular: points 4 and 5.
No large breasts in a bikini?
Looking "all legs" is a negative thing?

Boy, beauty standards surely have shifted.

Also, middle finger guns out to THIS. All the nope. Fuck that. Fuck them. 

Comments

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Pot-bellied tree stump with more hair on his lower back/upper asscheek than his head: Good writing, Phil.
Bitter alcoholic, who missed Viagra by THIS many decades: Thanks, Ron. Let's get some scotch!

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

:D

How did you get in the writer's room!?

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Depending on where in America it was written...either as That New Token Journalist or mopping the men's room floor.

[thenautical.livejournal.com]

LOL.. ."No dimples or cleavage" "No excess flesh" "the only hair visible is on your head"... Clearly they expected aliens to wear these bathing suits, because that is not a realistic list for a human woman.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Not at ALL realistic.

No hipbones, but no bulges, either. WHO do they think they're writing to?

[thenautical.livejournal.com]

Well, like I said, maybe it was for aliens. Hairless, boneless, beautifully shaped aliens without cleavage.

[cactus_rs]

Honestly it sounds like some low-key anti-bikini propaganda put out by the Purity Police.

"Here's this new scandalous thing young women want to wear! We think it's Bad! How can we get them to not wear it?"

"I know! Make them not want to in the first place!"