Beauty? What is That?

Beauty? What is that? Well beauty can be defined as so many different things, it all just depends on the person. The dictionary defines beauty as “the quality in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind.” That sounds was really deep. And up until this very moment I never really sat and thought about a definition for beauty. Just like everything else in life, you never really sit and think about what something means until you sit down and are forced to think about it. In all reality I always just thought beauty was something a person found really pretty or attractive. But really any person, place, animal, or thing can be considered beautiful. So I sat down and tried to come up with my own definition of beauty compared to what society may see as beautiful.

                Seeing as how beauty can be defined as almost anything in the entire world, coming up with my own definition was actually pretty tricky. I feel like it would take me a whole eight page paper or more to try and define beauty. But I’m not going to do that, so I just found a picture that might show my definition and a picture that shows society’s definition.

                                                            (My sister on her prom day)

                                                               (A runway picture I found)

                Because beauty can be defined as anything, I decided  to go with the beauty of people. To be more specific, their outer beauty. Someone with a great sense of outer beauty, to me, looks healthy and confident in their own skin. They don’t care what other people feel they should look like. And I feel society basically defines outer beauty as thin. You know just small everything (hips,waist, bust,etc..) We see this mostly with runway models today. In my opinion, some of those models look a little scary and sick. They just look like they need to eat something.

                But as I said before beauty can be anything you want it to be. So if you think that size 000 model is beautiful, then who am I to judge you. Beauty is all about your own FLAIR. Your own style. Nobody can determine for  you what you think is beautiful.

Sources: hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com & Dictionary.com

Quite Similar: 18th Century vs. 21st Century

                                     (miss-kseniya.blogspot.com)

                                     (seattlepi.com)

Usually I would make a post ranting about how I don’t like people to tell me what to wear or when to wear it, or how dressing comfortable is so much better. But this I decided to do something that’s going to be a little different.You see recently in my Dress History class we’ve been learning about how women dressed back in the 18^th century and certain things that influenced them to dress that way. And to be honest its really no different than the reason women in the 21^st century dress the way they do.

                For example, back in the 18^th century slim (ex. Small waistline) was in. So in order to make themselves achieve this slim look, smaller than normal, they wore corsets. And considering how unnaturally small their wait line looked, it had to be terribly uncomfortable to wear corsets. Why did they do this though? Well most influence came from the royal court and that’s the style they were wearing. But they also did it to keep up with the fashion of the time.

                Sooo that just made me think about how today, so many women still strive for this slim look. So many women wear body shapers and spanx (helps make body curves look smoother/sucks everything in)to get that look. Why? Well just like back in the 18^th century, people are influenced by what they see. Today most women see the models with the tiny waist and think, “I must look like that.” Only because society has portrayed that as beautiful, and because its normal for people to want what they can’t/don’t have.

                Well you know what I think about all this? I just say just be you. If you feel the need to wear body shapers or whatever  to make yourself feel beautiful, then go right ahead. There will come a time wear you’ll develop your own definition of beauty. But that’s another rant for a different blog post. Just remember whatever you wear or however you decide to look, give it your own FLAIR and you can’t  go wrong.