{"id":2049,"date":"2011-11-07T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2011-11-05T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T22:50:26","slug":"mae-west-on-skinny-women-c-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/mae-west-on-skinny-women-c-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Mae West on skinny women, c.1934"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bestactresswallpaper.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/sex-symbols-mae-west.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_bpdWsOrotV0\/TE3TfGhl4hI\/AAAAAAAAC64\/IlFbHVEi8Kg\/s1600\/mae+west+3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress Mae West, in &quot;It Aint No Sin&quot; c.1934 (Click for Source)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Author Maurice Leonard explains that for Mae West, \u201cher rotundity was exaggerated by her shortness. Giving vent to her frustration to Ruth Biery, she complained that Hollywood had tried to alter her shape when she had first arrived, and viewed the slim Hollywood beauties around her with dissatisfaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I never saw so many poles in my life! I wondered how Hollywood men could stand them. But everyone said I had to get thin. I figured they knew this racket and I didn\u2019t, so I went on one of them Hollywood diets\u2026It was pretty bad, but I\u2019d been through a lot for art\u2019s sake so taking off twenty pounds or more was just one more piece of the routine. I got down to 103 pounds. I stood in front of the mirror to study the results. I didn\u2019t like it. I didn\u2019t look\u2014well, you know, voluptuous. And that isn\u2019t all, I didn\u2019t even look healthy. And man or woman, you got to look healthy to look right. Half-starved women can\u2019t have no life in them any more than a half-starved dog.&#8221;* (141)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Maurice Leonard in\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1559721510\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1559721510\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mae West: Empress of Sex<\/em><\/span><\/a>. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991. 141.<\/p>\n<p>*Mae West in <em>Movie Classic<\/em>, April 1934.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I got down to 103 pounds. I stood in front of the mirror to study the results. I didn\u2019t like it. I didn\u2019t look\u2014well, you know, voluptuous. And that isn\u2019t all, I didn\u2019t even look healthy. And man or woman, you got to look healthy to look right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,94,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}