This is the Modern Way...?

British broadsheet nespaper The Guardian had an interesting piece yesterday in its G2 section (think the fun, comic-sized features accompaniment to the hard-news of the main section).

It reprinted an article first seen in the newspaper in 1924 when The Guardian was still The Manchester Guardian.

Read the text in full here. Ignoring the hilarious tone of the writing, which talks of "the required slimness" and "the everlasting high heels" and note that it concludes with the idea that the fashion for slenderness is...healthy.

A case of plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose, or are the times a-changin', since now it is more or less acknowledged that ultra-thin is ultra-scary? (Albeit in the same publications that then use the ultra-thin models and samples in their shoots...)