Thin ideal
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"Just as in the Judgment of Paris, in Diana, Antoine Watteau shows once again his predilection of for slender legs."--Sholem Stein |
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The thin ideal is the concept of the ideally slim female body. The common perception of this ideal is a woman who possesses a slender, feminine physique with a small waist and little body fat.
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Vocabulary
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Skinny
Skinny means having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
Erotic illustrators who have concentrated on skinny models include Franz von Bayros, Léo Fontan and Raphael Kirchner.
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See also
- Anti-fat bias
- Female body shape
- Body image
- Size zero
- 19th_century_erotica#Skinny_beauty_ideal_in_the_fin_de_si.C3.A8cle
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