at one point in recorded history did
women start wearing revealing and skimpy
clothes hi welcome to watchmojo.com I’m
your host Ashley and today we got the
chance because Cynthia Cooper about the
exploring changes of ideas of modesty
and eroticism in women’s clothing over
the past century and a half one of the
questions that immediately comes to
people’s minds when we look at the sorts
of changes that have happened in fashion
and the fact that women reveal more of
their bodies is why why does revealing
different parts of the body seem sexy at
some periods in history and not so much
at others one explanation that was very
popular in the early 20th century was
called the shifting erogenous zone we
grow bored looking at different parts of
the body so fashion changes to cover
that same body part and reveal another
one we see dresses from the 1920s that
were knee-length so the legs where the
erogenous zone according to this theory
and then in the 1930s long skirts came
back in again for evening wear and the
focus was really on the back in the
1940s and 50s it was on the shoulders
and in the 1960s it was back to the legs
again
new fashions are often associated with
sexual liberation and in the 1920s and
in the 1960s these are two key periods
women will be a much shorter skirts and
they had previously in both periods in
the 1920s they were wearing the knee
length and in the late 60s they were
wearing miniskirts and then hot pants
and in both these periods we see fashion
very much blamed for these changes and
associated with a general moral decline
in society so is this really the cause
of fashion or is fashion just a
reflection of larger trends and society
of course designers and celebrities have
an important role in the way fashion
changes we have chosen an image of the
topless bathing suit designed by Rudi
Gernreich in 1964 when this image first
came out it caused shockwaves around the
world we have bra worn by Madonna
designed by jean-paul Gaultier Madonna
was a key celebrity in being innovative
in the way she exposed her body and her
undergarments also the story of Janet
Jackson whether her exposure was
intentional or not it’s certainly
garnered a great deal of media attention
all through the 20th century and into
the 21st we know that an exposed body
has a degree of erotic power that will
always be used in new creative ways
women start wearing revealing and skimpy
clothes hi welcome to watchmojo.com I’m
your host Ashley and today we got the
chance because Cynthia Cooper about the
exploring changes of ideas of modesty
and eroticism in women’s clothing over
the past century and a half one of the
questions that immediately comes to
people’s minds when we look at the sorts
of changes that have happened in fashion
and the fact that women reveal more of
their bodies is why why does revealing
different parts of the body seem sexy at
some periods in history and not so much
at others one explanation that was very
popular in the early 20th century was
called the shifting erogenous zone we
grow bored looking at different parts of
the body so fashion changes to cover
that same body part and reveal another
one we see dresses from the 1920s that
were knee-length so the legs where the
erogenous zone according to this theory
and then in the 1930s long skirts came
back in again for evening wear and the
focus was really on the back in the
1940s and 50s it was on the shoulders
and in the 1960s it was back to the legs
again
new fashions are often associated with
sexual liberation and in the 1920s and
in the 1960s these are two key periods
women will be a much shorter skirts and
they had previously in both periods in
the 1920s they were wearing the knee
length and in the late 60s they were
wearing miniskirts and then hot pants
and in both these periods we see fashion
very much blamed for these changes and
associated with a general moral decline
in society so is this really the cause
of fashion or is fashion just a
reflection of larger trends and society
of course designers and celebrities have
an important role in the way fashion
changes we have chosen an image of the
topless bathing suit designed by Rudi
Gernreich in 1964 when this image first
came out it caused shockwaves around the
world we have bra worn by Madonna
designed by jean-paul Gaultier Madonna
was a key celebrity in being innovative
in the way she exposed her body and her
undergarments also the story of Janet
Jackson whether her exposure was
intentional or not it’s certainly
garnered a great deal of media attention
all through the 20th century and into
the 21st we know that an exposed body
has a degree of erotic power that will
always be used in new creative ways
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