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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those old enough to remember the 60s and 70s, were 24-inch waists as common as the movies and magazines indicate?

My question is not whether Americans have gotten larger on average, this is a confirmed fact. What I’m wondering is if bodies and figures have evolved to be heavier and wider, even among healthy people, and if it’s necessarily in a negative way. 
I have a 25.5 inch waist, most people would consider me thin and healthy, and I don’t have any belly fat to lose. For me to take two inches off my waist, you’d have to remove part of my ribcage or rearrange some of my internal organs. It just doesn’t seem like a 24 inch waist would be healthy or advisable for most women (surely some can pull it off, but certainly not all) Did women 50 years ago more commonly have a narrower or more fragile bone structure? [/quote]

Of course not.  Magazines and movies, then as now, skew toward slender women.   If someone 60 or so years from now looked at our contemporary movies and magazines, they would probably think today's women must have been very thin and fit because that's what these media always showcase.  I was around back then and saw women of all shapes and sizes, just as now.  Of course, there are more obese people in general these days, but you already know that.  The one thing that IS different is that women back then typically used more restrictive undergarments when out in public than we do now.  So you saw less wiggle and waggle.[/quote]

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