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Why fashion’s obsession with the ‘perfect body’ is starting to fade

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Why fashion’s obsession with the ‘perfect body’ is starting to fade
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Love it or hate it, clothing has often been designed around an idea of how the body should look. At the North Carolina Museum of History, The Shape of Fashion exhibits how corsets squeezed waists smaller while padded undergarments added curves wherever fashion suggested they should be.
And while styles have changed over time, the pressure to change the body to fit the clothes never completely went away.
Anyone who has loved an outfit only to feel like their body was somehow wrong for it knows ho

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