What a ‘Perfect’ Woman’s Body Was Supposed to Look Like Over the Past 100 Years

This article originally appeared on 01.27.15

While it's no secret that the media often portrays “beautiful" women in a certain ideal fashion, what's less obvious is the changing “popular" standards of what that actually looks like.

The website Greatist recently did a rundown of these portrayals over the past 100 years, broken down by decade. The result is a fascinating look at how quickly definitions of beauty can change, often in direct response to the “beauty" that came before.