The ideal of beauty is a feeling and I think that often in a world of fashionistas, lipsticks, and perfume we can often miss it. It’s not that we are looking to become the design of beautiful but that we are the design of beautiful and everything that we wear should be complimentary to it.
I think that a lot of companies and perhaps other benefactors out there have a lot to gain from women not being able to look at themselves in the mirror and instantly see themselves as beautiful.
When a woman feels beautiful just as she is, it becomes her radiance. And anything that she puts on is giving voice to her beauty and giving her beauty a style. For me, I love to be inspired by what women found beautiful throughout history and find different ways to infuse it into my current lifestyle…
The Victorian Era: Women wore corsets and actors only women who are Aphrodite’s (as I affectionately call these women) were allowed to wear makeup. Well the funny part to this is that even the most high nosed upscale “society woman” still tried to sneak her inner Aphrodite in and lightly wear some rouge as blush. I don’t personally wear a corset however I dream of one day having one like wore in .
One way that I do attempt to bring corsets into my everyday life is that in terms of my fitness shape I almost want it to be more corset like in a way and so I often infuse my workouts and shape my diet in a way that it adds more corset-like femininity to my shape.
1910: A round soft bodied gathered in at the waist was the highlight of what a women referred to as beauty. To this blog as Underneath Your Lingerie-like as possible, if you’re a long time reader of this blog you’ll know that just as I use the term Underneath Your Lingerie in a light and airy way it does have a deeper meaning too. Certain women have soft extra feminine energy bodies around them, even up to today and for me this being a reference as beauty shows that on some level are eyes and minds are aware of even the most deepest aspects of a woman’s body that most human’s today are completely unaware of.
The 1920’s dipped in the other direction and women who were flat chested, petite, and straight became the new “standard” that women were meant to reach. This is why it’s exhausting to chase beauty and easier to just step into it the fact that you are the beauty and beauty needs to chase you because only you can wear her. The truth is that I am a woman who until recently has always hated that she’s petite and now I just look at it like a stiletto size, just like curvy. Petite is just a stiletto. Slender is a stiletto. Curvacious stilettos are just as sparkly as petite ones. When it comes to sizes it’s just how we all “wear our glitter” so to speak, with all the other drama that comes with it left off!
1930’s “The Soft Siren.” I’m in love with the term “soft siren” and I still wish it was used today. Women are usually taught to be either Sirens or soft but the magic happens when a women blends them both into one and leads with her softness first. It’s not only more captivating to others but it’s also more healing for our nervous system too! For me the Soft Siren is an essence, I personally feel like we ruin things when we given them definitions the physically the definition for a soft siren was a woman with wide shoulders, a thin waist, and wide hips. Curvy and thin and very similar to the hourglass figure.
1940’s Bras today are rounded to hide a woman’s femininity however in the 1940’s torpedo shaped bras were in style and broad shoulders were set as the beauty ideal for women. For me, I personally feel that a classier way to put it is this..highlighting what makes a woman feminine (i.e. the shape of her breasts) and taking notice of the woman who is wearing the shoulders vs. the other way around is what matters most.
1950s : The Hourglass
Queue the sexiest shape in history is the hourglass shape of a woman’s body. When I was younger I used to be desperate for curves, now that I’m older I love having them but the cellulite not so much .
Years ago my sociology professor shared that men prefer tiny waists with larger hips ( in a way it’s almost easier to their eyes ). But I think we all know that when it’s comes to the 1950s it’s not healthy for a woman to be “Leave it to Beaver” Stepford wives ( it also leaves our personality out of our body ). I think we often think it’s about the body type but really it’s about regardless of a woman’s figure she can have an hourglass vibration to her body and that’s where as women the secret lies .
1960’s: Twiggy.
This is an interesting dynamic because one woman is being set as the standard for all women vs. they’re an overall ideal for women. While Marylin Monroe definitely dominated and still does today Twiggy profession was a fashion model which puts women into an interesting context of “ This woman is in style and this women isn’t.” Also because Twiggy looked so young it’s sexualizing woman at a younger age as well. This the downside, on the upside (to me) Twiggy has an innocence about her and as women today there is a special spirit of innocence about our bodies.
1970s .
When Farrah Fawcett and Pam Grier i.e. Foxy Brown were the ideal of beauty it was still a woman’s body being the ideal or framework for beauty but this woman was a badass. Sexy is an energy not a body size and every woman who embodies that is more attractive.
1980s.
The 1980s into the 1990s were the era of the Supermodel ( late 80s-early 90s is my favorite model era ). Women were known in how they walked in the clothes along with who they were which on both the spiritual level and the physical level is such a gorgeous representation of womanhood.
1990s.
The Waif .
The drop from the healthy supermodel figure and older looking models to super thin young looking models which then set the beauty standard for all women is actually the blame of the fashion designers . The designers felt that the popularity of the models that they were hiring was detracting from their clothes and so gone went the struts on the catwalk, Black models were mostly eliminated from the catwalk not consciously but because Black women often have curves, and the standard became that the model serves as a hanger for clothes with every hanger looking the same. Let’s not do that for our beauty!
2000s & 2010s were interesting because for the first time health was considered as a part of the beauty standard .And a body with at first realistic expectations ( like Britney Spears ) of being petite and athletic , having a body that looked healthy became the new fashion trend which later translated into a Kardashian like body being the health standard which while I personally like the Kardashians ( not as much as I love Britney but hey she’s Britney ) however the Kardashian look or the IG “ filter “ look is a look exaggerated proportions which lead to a false metric of what health and a women’s body should look like.
Now
What if now is the era when we can blend health and a woman’s body together like lace. Inside of every woman is the laciest design of her body and when we treat our bodies with the same care and love like we would an ultra expensive lingerie set we as women instantly become lingerie.
Future…
What if as women instead of the focus being outside of us we kept our focus within us and simply transforming the lingerie designs that we are into gold. You are already expensive. You are already in style. Now you are just transforming yourself into gold.
Beauty isn’t a design that you have to mold yourself into. Beauty is an energy that gets the privilege of wearing you as you become lingerie like everyday.
Welcome to the secret underneath every woman’s lingerie.
