The history of the female figure kakona: fashion trends of the last 10 thousand years

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Let's be frank: the female priest is always under the gun of the male gaze, whether it is a Renaissance artist or a completely outsider on the street. But neither Michelangelo nor the impudent uncle know that the canons of the beauty of the female priests are dictated not by them, but by History. In this material - an overview of the most stupid and most reasonable from an aesthetic point of view canons of the gluteal part in the history of mankind.

1. Ancient world: gigantic ideal

Venuses of the Ancient World: Perfect Buttocks.

The beauty canons of women's buttocks have always depended on what society wants from a woman in a particular historical period. Several thousand years BC (the Neolithic era), when even agriculture had not yet darkened the summer period for the ancestors of summer residents, and men-hunters were feeding the family, only one thing was required of women: to give birth.

A tough hunter's wife must be monumental.

The life of primitive women consisted of two endlessly alternating periods - bearing and feeding offspring. Consequently, a true woman should have had an ass of such a size that the mammoth killer was sure that his wife would give birth to a couple of dozen heirs with ease. Is it difficult to move around? Less will leave the fire unattended.

2. Ancient Greece: life-saving sport

Aphrodite of Cnidus and Venus de Milo: a priest for envy.

Fortunately, Greece - the home of athletes and fitness trainers - has allowed a woman to move away from the fire and reduce the volume of her buttocks to a harmonious state. Fans of going to the museum with a centimeter tape claim that the volume of the hips of Aphrodite of Knidos is 93 cm, and of Venus of Milo - exactly the same.

Aphrodite Kallipiga: the "gluteal standard" of Antiquity.

Greeks are real "butt experts". There is a legend according to which a Greek peasant managed to marry both his daughters to rich brothers precisely because of the girls' buttocks. Once the sisters started an argument about whose butt is more beautiful, and the passer-by, who was asked for an expert opinion, fell so in love with the older sister's butt that he even fell ill on his return to the city. And soon the younger brother, having gone as a second "expert" to the maidens of marriageable age, fell in love, but already with the little one.

Oh, what a bliss to know that I am perfect …

The girls, whom the townspeople called "beautiful-ass", were so grateful to the gods for the happiness that had come down that they built a temple in honor of Aphrodite with their husband's money. The statue of Aphrodite, the "mistress" of the temple, began to be called Kallipiga (καλλίπυγη) - "the owner of a beautiful backside." The goddess of love, as you can see, was herself delighted with her buttocks, because, covering her naked body in front, she turned around to see the reflection of the priests in the water.

3. Middle Ages: incorporeal beauty

The hips of a medieval woman should be evidence of strict fasting.

The Catholic Church, which controlled, among other things, the private life of Europeans, also influenced the canons of female attractiveness. Medieval ladies (they are also "vessels of the devil") knew from infancy that in order to save the soul, it is necessary to despise the body. In addition, female attractiveness was regarded as a devilish obsession for the sons of Adam, therefore, "incorporeal", the absence of curvaceous forms and sharp bends were highly appreciated.

Perfect medieval hips.

Flat women saved men from obscene thoughts and fiery Gehenna, and also introduced a new fashion on the ass - its absence. However, any female buttocks, according to medieval worshipers, are so ugly that, exposing them, you can even scare away the devil.

4. Ancient Russia: you can't ruin your ass with pies

So take Stanislava: she will sit on all the lava …

Orthodox Russia, in contrast to Europeans-Catholics, saw in a woman, after all, at first a potential mother and mistress. A thin woman (= "bad, sick") is a worthless wife: will you give birth to a hero with a small booty? Before the wedding, the future mother-in-law had the right to "border inspection": only after making sure that the girl was stout, the groom's mother gave the go-ahead for the marriage. But just in case, the bride's parents could dress the blood in 5-10 skirts: the outstanding pseudo-pop convinced the guests and the groom that the product was good.

5. New time: more life

The ideal woman through the eyes of Rembrandt …

The Renaissance era returned to women the right to admire themselves. The ideal of the Middle Ages - a pale and emaciated lady from fasting and prayers - was destroyed: from now on, full of life (and simply full), blooming, luxurious women are in fashion. Rembrandt, Rubens and many other artists of the modern era captured on canvases the new canon of the female priest, openly demonstrating: the owner is not alien to earthly joys.

The priests of Rubens' women are the standard of the New Time.

Perhaps, it was at this time that the beauty of women's buttocks is most perplexing: the notorious "cellulite" was even welcomed, being an indicator of prosperity and luxurious life.

6.19th century: bow extension

Corset: it's hard to breathe, but the bottom is delicious.

The 19th century only strengthened the ladies' desire for total femininity. The effect of a lush ass was achieved due to simple tricks: bows of impressive size were attached to the back of the skirt. Since the corset could reduce the waist by up to 40 cm, the buttocks looked even more monumental.

Tournure: beauty and a little trash …

By the end of the century, skirts with a bustle - a pillow attached to the back under the skirt - came into fashion. The pop "cornice" often became the object of jokes and cartoons - and nevertheless remained in trend …

Evolution according to Darwin-Quack …

7. 20th century and today: Twiggy VS Kardashian …

At the beginning of the 20th century, "gluteal fashion" split into two camps …

In the 20th century, the fashionable canons of women's buttocks have changed almost every decade. It is natural that if, before the world wars, fashion ordered ladies to have a compact "rear" (and here, languid decadents and militant feminist suffragettes who won the right to pants from men should be mentioned as the culprits), then after the hungry war years, thinness evokes unpleasant associations and canon female priests are changing again, requiring soft roundness. As already noted in one of the materials on Novate.ru, after the Second World War, women especially felt the need to dress up and please the male sex.

After the hungry war years, the fashion for a feminine ass returned for a while.

1960s runway fashion redefined the idea of a perfect butt.

In the 1960s, catwalk fashion imposes thinness on women: the “no-tossing” fragile Twiggy encourages ordinary women to consider rounded buttocks an informal one. The fashion for male forms (a narrow pelvis and a minimum of body fat) was also supported by feminist-minded ladies. The use of the image of curvy buttocks (in movies, music videos, advertising products) as a means of attracting a male audience has been declared sexism, a dictate of standards for the sake of male fantasies. Having an androgynous ass, it is much easier not to become the object of greasy looks …

Media persons are supposed to have a magnificent appearance.

However, not everyone was worried about the problem of sexism, and the appetizing butt "cornice" has become a fashionable standard. Only the lazy hasn't heard of Jennifer Lopez's million-dollar buttocks insured or Kim Kardashian's gluteal implants.