The most clearly the differences in standards of the esthetic ideal of a body are seen in the changes of the ideal of female’s beauty, from the muscular, toned, and womanly forms of 1890’s to the slim, tall, thin lines preferred today. Therefore, clothes stress or hide certain parts of the body for achieving of silhouette close to the ideal of a particular time. For example, the corset was used to make woman’s waist thinner in the Victori

Since females fought for the equality from the ancient times, they turned themselves into male like persons at the end of the XX century feeling freedom of choices, when they achieved rights they’ve never had before. Everything real and graceful in women was suppressed by dirty jeans, torn running shoes, and crumpled T-shirts. Thunder of 90’s – a tall girl with a short hairstyle or without hair at all or she made her hair look like a sponge. She was thin like skeleton, with sunken cheeks, flat chest, and thin arms. It was a fashion of minimalism. Ladies of 90’s preferred to wear jeans two sizes bigger than their own, large sweaters, huge soldier boots. They were not afraid to pierce their navels, or even noses, or, let’s say, to tattoo their bodies. Courage was a devise for those females. However, the buzzword of high fashion was individuality. Length, style, trousers or dress were the wearer’s choice not only what to wear, but how to wear it and what with. The echo of that time we still experience today.

Fashion in the early 20's was still quite elaborate: hairstyles, hats and skirt shapes varied. The bodices with their straight across necklines, flat chests and low waists were very much of this age. Hair styles were shorter than ever, and face make-up was becoming more acceptable. Women were constantly trying to lose weight, so sport became an absolute obsession.

The 60’s are considered to be the time of the youths’ fashion birth. The styles of this period were informal designs. Liberty prints, tight jeans, and the unisex look were in fashion. The main fashion breakthrough was, of course, the mini. The new silhouette had been quite childlike with rounded limbs, and the model, Twiggy, with her childish, innocent look was the face of the decade.

Punk was one of the biggest stories in fashion in the 1970’s. Born out of a relatively short-lived anti-fashion street cult, it ended up representing bondage trousers, kilts, T-shirts with offensive slogans and mohair sweaters in Spiderman weave, huge boots, chains and spiked leather jackets, crazy colors of hair and hair jelled into impossible shapes like horns and spikes, body piercing and safety pins. The woman of the 70’s was elongated and stick-like that showed the continuing idealization of a very thin figure.

The period of 1980’s w

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