The Vintage Lens

This Tumblr is about casting a vintage lens on everything that interests me: Fashion, Art, Music, Film, Design, Advertising, and Technology
onlythininmydreams:

Part of me goes: “Oh, wow! How things have changed since the 1930s!”
The other part goes: “even with gaining 10 pounds, she’s still so much thinner than I am, so maybe times haven’t changed much at all.”

onlythininmydreams:

Part of me goes: “Oh, wow! How things have changed since the 1930s!”

The other part goes: “even with gaining 10 pounds, she’s still so much thinner than I am, so maybe times haven’t changed much at all.”

(Source: thinnerland)

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    If only “enticing curves” were the ideal these days.
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  9. buttonbottie said: Remember this was probably after the Great Depression when being skinny meant being poor and under fed. Having curves back then meant wealth and health, so therefore are better suited to being a wife and mother.
  10. borderline-fit said: I really don’t think it is. The ‘fat’ or ‘curvy’ girls they had in the 50’s look skinny to me haha
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