I stole this from thatotherguy269
Quite frankly, beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes. And today, when
most people think of an attractive woman in the fashion sense, they usually imagine
a slim-hipped waif with hollow cheeks, narrow shoulders, and a rather
unremarkable bust line. This is what commerce has brainwashed modern society
into believing is the ideal woman.
It is a lie, propagated by marketing forces and fashion designers who use
the obsession with a slender female form as a means to earn millions of
dollars selling weight-loss products and other health routines.
But some of us know better. There is another female form that has been
idealized for centuries. She is the familiar hourglass or pear-shaped woman
of wide hips, an ample bust, plump cheeks, soft-full lips, and a generally
healthy profile of alluring curves and crevasses.
She is the Rubenesque Woman. Elegant. Cultured. Educated and Beautiful.
In fact, the very word "rubenesque" originates from the adorable plump
women so frequently put to canvas by Renaissance Master Peter Paul Rubens.
Rubens paintings were so treasured because he painted the lovely women
that he saw around him. In Ruben's time, what are today called plus-size,
ample-bodied, full-figured, or pleasingly plump, were considered very
attractive, if not the most sought after of all women.
A firm heavy bust, complimented by shapely hips were physical features
that women of Ruben's day could be proud of. In fact, the fashion of those
times exaggerated these very features. Even slender women struggled into
agonizingly tight-fitting corsets and brassieres that held the mammaries upright
so as to enhance their God-given curves.
Sadly, today these concepts of female beauty are all but lost. Even the
over-used term BBW { big beautiful woman } seems an attempt to force
a positive image upon women who should be regarded as comely, just as
they are!
