How have womens' body representations changed in my lifetime

I would say I started recognizing women’s representation of beauty when I was in elementary school. This was around the late nineties. In the late nineties, women wore “mom jeans”…a lot. The interesting thing about “mom jeans” was that they showed off your butt and your hips. If you had a big butt and small hips, mom jeans worked. As time progressed, jeans started to go from high and tight to low and loose. If you had a big butt and wore low rise jeans, you were probably in danger of getting caught showing your butt-crack or thong in public. If your hips were too wide, you’d get the love handles hanging out all over the place. Another thing I noticed growing up is that it suddenly became cool to have small boobs instead of large ones. I developed very early and had D cups by age fifteen. All my girlfriends could wear these tiny tank tops and T-shirts without bras. I, on the other hand, could not. I think the small boobs went along with the emaciated look that came with the nineties. By the time I was in high school, the girls were still the same size they were in middle school. They had worked their bodies down until they fit in a jean size 0. While I didn’t benefit from the small boob fad, several girls who had been told growing up that they needed to have big boobs felt empowered to now flaunt the fact that they had flatter chests. When the athletic look came around in my late high school years, the girls who had boyish figures were considered the prettiest. Instead of being made fun of for not having developed as well, they took pride in the fact that they took care of their bodies.