Introduction

What connections do these images make between fashion and beauty? What connections do they make between the natural female body and beauty? How does each image show beauty or the lack of beauty? Can you think of ways in which these points of view still operate today in relation to societal views of women’s bodies?

How do the combined texts and images in some of these works add to their meaning for you? Does looking at the images as a group change the ways in which you look at each image separately? If so, how?