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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Yup, good ole Jane Russell. However, I note that, while "full figured" was long ago intended to mean "busty or hourglass" it's been co-opted by the "busty - and also hippy, wiggly, jiggly, etc." and now effectively means "fat."
"Curvy," which was the main replacement for "full figured," is going the same way, thanks in no small part to "Real Women Have Curves," a great movie but one in which the women didn't so much have curves as sphericalness. "Womanly" is up next.
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Can't we blame Jane Russell herself for that? Didn't she - in later years when less hourglassy and more round - tout those Playtex 18-hour monster bras for "full figured gals"? Took any allure right out of the phrase right there.
Hate that "real women" terminology - seems to imply not only what gwnc and ltl/fb said, but also that that is what you should now aspire to.
And I say that as a fake woman with apparently exceedingly minor curves.
