Gibson Girls

                                                          The Gibson Girl was the personification of a feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States.
Some people argue that the "Gibson Girl" was the first national standard for feminine beauty. For the next two decades, Gibson's fictional images were extremely popular. There was merchandising of "saucers, ashtrays, tablecloths, pillow covers, chair covers, souvenir spoons, screens, fans, umbrella stands", all bearing her image. The artist saw his creation as representing "thousands of American girls".

           
                                                The previous paragraph was a little rundown from the mighty Wikipedia.  Gibson girls may have been mere illustrations at first but eventually real life muses surfaced as living embodiments of the previous turn of the centurys feminine ideal.  One of my very favorites is Camille Clifford.  I honestly dont believe her face is anything spectacular in fact shes a very simple type of pretty but whatever she may lack with regards to her face I feel she more than makes up for with her rockin corseted figure!  Talk about a body to die for.                               

 Love,
Athena