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Sat 11 Nov 2009Women now aspire to boyish frame - study
YOUNG women today aspire to “more androgynous” and “tubular” body shapes than their counterparts in previous generations, according to a study presented at a psychology conference yesterday.
The study, which compared its results to a similar exercise among young Americans in 1954, found women aspired to be lighter than their counterparts in the 1950s. Their ideal choice of body shape had moved away from the hourglass and toward the tube.
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