K.D. Lightner
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In regards to weight and voluptuousness, we have done a 180-degree turn in society. At the turn of the 20th century, if you were heavy and pale, it is because you had enough food to eat and had the leisure to carry a sun umbrella, nor did you have to work outside. If you were slim and brown, you were poor.
Past the mid-century, if you were heavy and pale, it is because you ate cheap foods (carbohydrates) and had to work long hours in a factory with no time for leisure; if you were slim and brown, you had money to eat lean meat, fancy salads and fish, got to spas, and sun in the Riveria.
Please know that, until after the war, most people did not eat snacks. My mother does not ever remember eating out, let alone eating junk food. I once saw a 1932 photo taken of an entire student body in a small town in Iowa -- about 300 kids, plus teachers, janitors, etc. There was one fat person in the whole picture -- a boy. You could look at him and see there was something wrong hormonally.
Women were allowed up until the 60's to be voluptuous -- I have a middle-aged friend who was slender in high school -- kids called her Olive Oil. She hated being slim, was shy and an outcast. She has since gotten her revenge. I also have a friend who attended high school in the late 90's, she was 5'10" and weighed about 105 pounds. She was a popular cheerleader. (Although she said when someone got mad at her, she was called, not Olive Oil, but an "anorexic b**ch." So some things never change).
karol
Past the mid-century, if you were heavy and pale, it is because you ate cheap foods (carbohydrates) and had to work long hours in a factory with no time for leisure; if you were slim and brown, you had money to eat lean meat, fancy salads and fish, got to spas, and sun in the Riveria.
Please know that, until after the war, most people did not eat snacks. My mother does not ever remember eating out, let alone eating junk food. I once saw a 1932 photo taken of an entire student body in a small town in Iowa -- about 300 kids, plus teachers, janitors, etc. There was one fat person in the whole picture -- a boy. You could look at him and see there was something wrong hormonally.
Women were allowed up until the 60's to be voluptuous -- I have a middle-aged friend who was slender in high school -- kids called her Olive Oil. She hated being slim, was shy and an outcast. She has since gotten her revenge. I also have a friend who attended high school in the late 90's, she was 5'10" and weighed about 105 pounds. She was a popular cheerleader. (Although she said when someone got mad at her, she was called, not Olive Oil, but an "anorexic b**ch." So some things never change).
karol