A beautiful Venus would hardly be able to turn heads to modern men. Just like Claudia Schiffer did not charm the medieval knights. Why? Each epoch molded its beauties, presenting to them its own special requirements.

In ancient times, a woman as the main source of life - the "vessel of fertility" - had to have external signs of motherhood: wide hips and large breasts. And no thinness!.

A woman of the Middle Ages - this is the Mother of God, and the witch, and the beautiful Lady, and "the repository of sin". The ideal is a slender (even skinny) beauty, pale, with elongated limbs, a flat chest and a slightly protruding belly (a symbol of eternal pregnancy). At this time, there was also a fashion for naked faces: shaved hair from the forehead, eyebrows, burned lashes - to lengthen the face.

To someone who believes that women should be many, it was necessary to be born in the Renaissance. At that time, the beauty consisted of magnificent forms: a woman should have a high growth, a breast - the more, the better, the massive hips and strong buttocks. In short, in fashion - a powerful female body, by the way, is not always hidden by clothes. It is interesting that at that time, above maturity and youth, maturity was valued. It was believed that the flowering of a woman accounted for 35-40 years.

The gallant age finds attractive piquancy. An excellent body is considered to be that does not flash with strength, not trained, but sleek: narrow shoulders, thin waist, rounded thighs. It is absolutely not adapted to work. In fashion, languid pallor, as a sign of fragility and sleepless nights devoted to love. And what about age? Well, you - a woman is never older than 20.

With the advent of the Romantic era, the ideal of beauty is not an ordinary woman, but a heavenly creature that is always sad and dreaming, and in her sad blue eyes there are tears. An attractive color is not a healthy blush, but pallor and fragility. Romance, in a word!.

The Victorian era brought hypertrophied chastity. Any mention of erotic parts of the body or, God forbid, "this" was strictly forbidden. A woman does not have hips or calves, and there are only "legs". By the way, the piano's legs are wrapped in felt, so as not to cause associations with the female legs. Breasts are a "bust", the stomach is a stomach, but there is no such thing as a nedug. en.