With the trend of low-rise jeans and 90s making a comeback since last, it begs the question, is the body of the 90s also coming back?
The current era is of the slim thick body type -popularized by Kim Kardashian and her famous BBL(Brazilian butt lift) surgery-which includes a voluptuous figure with curves.
In contrast, in the 90s, the heroin chic era was idolized by the slim non-curvaceous figure and, at the time of "Mean Girls" release, made having a big butt an insult.
This vast change in bodies and what worth they entailed has been going on before we even know it; since even print media's initial days, there have been articles for women to lose weight or to gain weight, to have an ample bosom, round hips, small hips, Etc. Anything and everything under the sun has to be changed and modified by the end of the decade to keep fashion from going stale, but women's bodies are not fashion. They are human beings who, if they fit a beauty standard, are put on a pedestal until that body type is wanted or are told to do everything in their power to change their bodies. However, women's bodies are not clothes that can be swapped every decade with a new one.
The body on-trend gives the beholder a sense of superiority like the curvaceous one. Although the notion contains some truth, the opposite is also true: The perception that women with flat chests and thin builds without being "slim thick" was further promoted by the BBL body trend. The problem lies in how various body types are compared to one another; women are meant to compete by reducing their bodies to fashionable forms.
Furthermore, even while BBLs embrace "curves," they have only ever been curves in the "right" places. Fat deposits on the cheeks are desirable, but not so much on the stomach. As standards are by definition exclusive, this one was no longer inclusive as a standard. It takes the outmoded of one physical type for another. Dieticians and plastic surgeons are the only ones who benefit when women's bodies are treated like fashion accessories and treated like trends.
In the sixteenth century, women put their health in danger by wearing corsets; in the eighteenth century, they starved themselves; and in more recent times, they had surgery to have the curves they desired. When the next thing arrives, they will act in the same manner. For the time being, until the next body type takes over, thinner women are viewed as superior. Naturally, the majority of those whose bodies are cut on a "hot or not" list are women. Men then criticize the women who give in and decide to conform to social norms about appearance, accusing them of not "loving their body"—the same body.
