See How the Shape of the ‘Perfect’ Body Has Changed Over the Last 100 Years

In the 1960s, dresses shrunk to suit the favoured petite frame as sported by Twiggy

Twiggy

Back came the curves in 1970 – the era of the long, lean dancing queen

Farrah Fawcett

By the Eighties, the British woman was on the way to a healthy figure with Elle MacPherson being the ideal

Elle MacPherson

The Nineties was the decade of ‘the waif’ popularised the ‘heroin chic’ look seen on Kate Moss

Kate Moss

By the Millennium, women strived for an athletic figure like Britney Spears

Christina Aguilera

Today, the Facebook generation look to body icons such as curvy, big bottomed Kim Kardashian