Sarah S
Member
Hello everyone,
this is a general question, and hopefully nobody gets it wrong. Of course there is a lot about edwardian and victorian fashion, but I wonder what the beauty standards for a woman was in those times.
I haven seen pictures of many women who have been proclaimed to have been the most beautiful. Like Evelyn Nesbit, Lily Elsie, Gladys Cooper were considered top tier beauties.
I recently watched a video on youtube with my mother that showed victorian women who were considered the biggest beauty symbols, and many times my Mum loudly wondered how some of these women were considered beautiful. Even if we apply the saying "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", there has always been kind of a universal standard in every society. Did the edwardian period have a somewhat like a 'fixed' type that was considered desirable in a woman? Fair skin and brown eyes seemed to have been considered ideal. Do you know of other ideal physical characteristics in edwardian era?
Would modern day beauties like Gigi Hadid, Angelina Joli or Megan Fox still have been considered beautiful in those days like they are today? Whenever I read about the hailed beauties in those times, I hardly imagine they'd be considered as pretty in our modern era, which makes me wonder in the same way if our modern day models would probably be as well a mere shoulder shrug during the edwardian era.
Thank you
this is a general question, and hopefully nobody gets it wrong. Of course there is a lot about edwardian and victorian fashion, but I wonder what the beauty standards for a woman was in those times.
I haven seen pictures of many women who have been proclaimed to have been the most beautiful. Like Evelyn Nesbit, Lily Elsie, Gladys Cooper were considered top tier beauties.
I recently watched a video on youtube with my mother that showed victorian women who were considered the biggest beauty symbols, and many times my Mum loudly wondered how some of these women were considered beautiful. Even if we apply the saying "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", there has always been kind of a universal standard in every society. Did the edwardian period have a somewhat like a 'fixed' type that was considered desirable in a woman? Fair skin and brown eyes seemed to have been considered ideal. Do you know of other ideal physical characteristics in edwardian era?
Would modern day beauties like Gigi Hadid, Angelina Joli or Megan Fox still have been considered beautiful in those days like they are today? Whenever I read about the hailed beauties in those times, I hardly imagine they'd be considered as pretty in our modern era, which makes me wonder in the same way if our modern day models would probably be as well a mere shoulder shrug during the edwardian era.
Thank you
