The culture of being beautiful is an old mannerism with humans, though it has got more to do with the fairer sex. Every age, region, culture and tradition has its own essence of beauty. Right from the earliest period of history, different standards and parameters of beauty have been closely guarded and zealously maintained by different generations. But one thing is for sure; the image of an ideal beauty is something that is hard to come by.

The western society seems to be deeply engrossed with the thoughts of a perfect body size and ideal weight. Everyone in the society, men, women and even the adolescents are influenced by the pressures around them to adhere and conform to some ideal parameter of body structure and figure. And it was a serious issue among the women. The ideal figure tends to be one that is most difficult to attain in that particular period of time. On occasions when there are a lot of people maintaining the ideal shape, the yardsticks for the ideal figure would change in such a way that it is something extraordinarily harder to attain.

The ideal shape a woman changes with the tide of time. Different eras of history have seen various ideal shapes of women. Body consciousness, with an essence for fashion and style became noticeable among the masses since the Victorian Age. Victorian women loved a fleshy, plump and full-bodied structure. In order to accentuate their hips, they had a practice of wearing tight corsets on their waist. A tight and slim waist gave them a