Fashion for women's breasts since the Paleolithic to the present day

Canons of beauty have changed throughout the existence of mankind. And if the dawn of civilization the female breast was just a "functional" supplement, then eventually changed its purpose. The shape and size of the breast has become one of Meryl female attraction and a source of inspiration for sculptors and artists.

Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic

Women's statue. Turkey. Chattan Hüyük. Neolithic

The peoples who lived 20-10 thousand years ago nomadic life, judging by the statues, preserved from those times was considered the ideal female figure with a large basin and a huge, bring up ten children, feeding. This is not surprising, since in such a harsh way of life is important to have enough fat to warm the fruit, and that breast milk have a high energy value. About beauty then and speech could not be - it was necessary to survive. Today these women doctors have diagnosed "obesity".

Venus of Willendorf. Paleolithic.

Mycenaean period

The cradle of European culture is considered the Minoan and Mycenaean civilization III-II millennium BC, flourished on the territory of Crete, Greece and the Balkan. Fine art at the time was already sufficiently developed, and modern archaeologists have conclusive evidence that the Mycenaean culture, a woman is no longer just be "detovmestilischem" and was the subject of admiration.

"Ladies in Blue". Palace of Knossos in Crete

During this period, women began to make elaborate hairstyles, wear beautiful clothes with a difficult cut. And the chest was completely naked from the looks of strangers. The ideal female figure gained slenderness and elegance, close to what is considered the canon and in this century. By the way, "weak" floor, according to historians, was not inferior to men in many ways, and even participated in the ritual jumps over a bull - tavromahii. Tall chest right round shape - witness the harmonious development of the physical body in women Aegean civilization. The size of it, according to the proportions of about a third.

Surprisingly, that without the help of a plastic surgeon so heavy breasts look higher. In fact, women have used the same method as that of modern designers, created a model of push-up bras. The upper part of the garment, something like a bolero, squeezed the sides of the chest, shifting it to the center and thereby increasing the visual.

Aphrodite of Cnidus. A copy of Praxiteles sculpture. Classicism.

Greece from VIII to I centuries BC

Mycenaean period ended "dark ages", about which little is known, and the main historical and cultural evidence is the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of Homer. A few sculptures preserved since the time quite conventionally depicted body, preferably man.

Then came the three periods - archaic, classicism and Hellenism. In the Archaic period the female body hidden behind the coat, and we can only guess that the sculptors favored slim, high girls almost asthenic physique. But in classical Greece and the Hellenistic period, we have once again see all the beauty of the naked body. And it is portrayed without any conditionality - as it is.

Venus de Milo

Sculptors showed the ideal of the era. These were young girls, still do not give birth and feed their children.

Early Christianity and the Middle Ages

Until the Renaissance woman was mentally fit to Christian notions of justice and chastity. Therefore, all that emphasizes the beauty of her body and could seduce a man, it was considered sinful. It breastfeed was also unworthy occupation for women - true Christians. Moreover, since at that time the food was quite poor and monotonous, and the sign of noble blood was considered pallor, ie tan was the lot of the peasants, children often suffered from rickets. Rickety physique with narrow and sunken chest, bulging belly was an ideal of beauty. It was during the most unhealthy fashion for flat-chested, deprived women blush. Beautiful women burned at the stake because they were introduced into the temptation of men, and, consequently, were accomplices of evil forces. The frescoes depicted the martyr and the Madonna, which only differs from the men's clothing, and in the paintings - the humble righteous, clad in its nature rigid corsets.

The Annunciation. Jan van Eyck. 1434.

From the Renaissance to the Victorian age

All the bad come to an end, and after the Dark Ages came the Renaissance. Women's breasts were "released to freedom", but a large bust are still not considered ideal in the nobility environment. Solid "dvoechku" we see even in the paintings of this magnificent ladies lover, Peter Paul Rubens.

The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli

At the same time, corsets were made in such a way that the breast acquired appetizing form. Deep neckline attracted men's eyes. And to great effect on his chest stuck flies.

Later came the Victorian era, when the breasts draped, covered completely by the male gaze under a strict dress code and tried to visually reduce its volume.

XX and XXI century

And then came the age of revolutions. Everything was changing rapidly, and skinny, like boys, decadent beauty gone, giving way to the girls with breasts third dimension. It is alleged that in the forties of the Japanese prostitutes made themselves paraffin injections in the breast, in order to please the American servicemen. Then Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren shone from the screen.

In the seventies, it became fashionable girls - "Twiggy". It was the pseudonym of one of the popular models, whose breast was the first size. And this standard is kept for a long time by the standards of modern fashion, until the end of the nineties. Women lose weight, lose weight and lose weight again to achieve a model appearance. Well, that Jane Fonda with her aerobics urged not to lose weight through diet, but at the expense of physical activity.

Pamela Anderson

And then, in the 90s, there was Pamela Anderson with her fourth breast size. And beautiful half went to the other extreme. There were also affordable, safe and healthy silicone implants, through which you can increase the breast to the desired number. In particular, American Maira Hills implanted implants weighing 18 kg.

In recent years the fashion for huge bust began to subside, and many of the stars who more recently pumped silicone, such as Pamela, get rid of it. After all, the fashion is a new trend - bodipozitiv. Whatever the size of a woman's breast or other parts of the body, it is important that she herself loved. Otherwise, no plastic surgery will not help to become a loved and cherished.