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It has often been said that women follow fashion more to compete with other women than to look attractive to men, but if the preferences of the poor neglected male were corresponded greater attention, there is no doubt that fashion trends would favor the fuller female figure. Studies have shown that women perceive men's preferred figure form to be slimmer than average, whereas most men actually prefer an average-size figure. If women really did dress to please men it would lead to a more relaxed situation in which the drive to be thin could be consigned to the past.

Male preference for female body form varies between cultures but a survey of 300 of the most thoroughly taught cultures that showed 81 percent preferred a female body size that could be described as 'plump.' With the high rate of cultural integration in the modern world, resulting from vastly expanded means of travel and communication, as well as unprecedented levels of migration, it is not difficult to predict that the income will establish a preferred female form that is more Rubenesque. A notable example of this trend is the wide-scale popularity of Indian 'Bollywood' films, spreading appreciation of their voluptuous leading ladies across wide swathes of Asia, Africa and beyond.

It has been reported that in the USA, women overestimate men's preference for thinness in a mate. In one study, women were asked to choose what they thought was the body build most attractive to men. They chose slimmer than average figures. When men were asked in the same way to choose the female body most attractive to them, they chose figures of average build. This indicated that women might be misled as to how thin men prefer women to be, and even when they did dress to please their partner they could have been mistaken in driving to straighten their curves.

Men have adapted the Venus de Milo for centuries as exemplifying the ideal female form yet she has been described by one art critic as 'matronly,' on account of her comparatively thick waist. She certainly can not be described as thin. So there has been speculation that thinness is primarily a beauty standard by which women judge one another. Some think that thinness is valued by modern business and professional women as a sign of independence, strength and achievement, and many blame the fashion industry for promoting thinness as the ideal female body form. One thing is certain, if female fashion follows the known preferences of the average male, women's lives would be relieved of much stress and the major could rejoice freely in the body endowed by nature.

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Source by John Powell