Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-24 | Page 6 | Venus in Discard as U. S. Beauty Ideal

g HOI Iff DISCARD AS U S. BEAUTY IDEAL NEW TYPE THINNER AND TALLER, NOTED ARTIST OBSERVESl r- WEAS1 It EM IN TS i VENCS. Height 5 ft. 4 in. Neck 12 in. Waist 8' in. Hips 36 " In. Thigh 19 V2 H Knee 131.. In Calf I3i In j Ankle $ In. Must 3 lt In. I Arm 12 in i xElbow 10 in i xForearm iot. in : Wrist 6 In. xEstlmated. i: i i r:o run kp.y Pi E scr Ice Staff W i iter. NEW YORK. Dec. 23 Tne classic Venus de Mllo no longer is the standard stand-ard of feminine beauty. N'ot In America, Amer-ica, anyway. Venus Is much too fat: And too short ' W. T. Lenda famous artist and Illustrator who draws those ravlsh-i ravlsh-i lng magazine cover girls throws this bombshell. "The f longated woman Is tho i beauty of today In America." says ; Bends, "Her face and features dpd , figure are long and narrow I "Venus would not look well In modern clothes strolling down Fifth uvenue. American women do not want to he so plump The standard I of today Is several inches taller than I Venus and slender. Elongated is the. 1 v. ord." Heresy" Not a bit. says Benda. This In spite of the fact that four i sculptors, an ovt critic and an anthropologist recently gave the beauty pme in a New York physical, I culture show to .Miss Dbrothy Knanp because they said her measurements j of hip and thigh, neck and calf, i head to heel more nearly approxl- 1 mated what wa called the "American Venus" than any other entrant. This beauty award has resulted In la $100,000 suit brought by Miss Ann Hyatt, who claims her form moro , nearly parallels Venus differing on'y In one-hali Inch more around the hips and one inch more around each thigh I "it is not necessarily what i thini ," says Lenda, cautiously, "It is the popular taste Art mirrors this tas:e. The lassie Vcnns de mho (tcft i and rtit Benda's Sketch i tin-Modern tin-Modern Popular Conception or Beauty of Female Torni (right). Center, Dorothy Knapp (above; and Ann Hyatt in Fight for BcaUty Honor- Art may precede these changing standards and perhaps help to establish estab-lish them, but the artist who wishes to be popular must depict woman as she wishes to be and as her countryman country-man w!sh her to bo." Venus' classic lines haven't been scrapped everywhere however, "Tastes In women differ," BeDda. smiled. "The Frenchman and th Italian prefer the plumpness of IBj Venus. So. too. tho Greek. To Turk jjl and Persians a woman must be quit-fat quit-fat to be beautiful. While the- Slav would have a woman plump, he WOUSJ I have her hair light "