DRESS, CLASS, GENDER
Sources of the Data
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Handbook on Dress and Cloak Cutting
1884
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Superlative System of Cutting Ladies clothes
1898
Bust: 36
Waist: 24
Weinberg's Cloak, Suit and Cape Cutter
1900
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Hips: 42.5
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The Delineator, September 1902
1902
Bust: 36
Waist: 26
Hips: 42.5
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Carlstrom's proportions of the human form
1905
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Hips: 41
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1905
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
1908
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Hips: 41
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1909
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
1910
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Hips: 43
PracticalDesigner
1911
Bust: 36
Waist: 23.5
Hips: 41
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1913
Bust: 36
Waist: 25
Hips: 42
Eatons Spring & Summer Catalog
1917
Bust: 36
Waist: 26
Hips: 39
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THEN + NOW - BEAUTY STANDARDS
GLOBAL CONTEXT
LIBERATION ART
FETISH + FANTASY

...I finish tuning the pipes
face the floral mirror
thinly dressed
crimson silken shift
translucent
over icelike flesh
lustrous
in snowpale cream
glistening scented oils
and laugh
to my sweet friend
tonight
you are within
my silken curtains
your pillow, your mat
will grow cold.
-- Li Qingzhao