{"id":15800,"date":"2025-01-18T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=15800"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T20:16:58","slug":"while-there-is-a-movement-in-how-people-view-beauty-in-american-and-the-world-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=15800","title":{"rendered":"While there is a movement in how people view beauty in American and the world at large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The standard of beauty is changing, driven by social media, where women can proudly display their natural beauty in all shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study in the *International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education* confirms this shift, showing that the average American woman now wears between a size 16 and 18, rather than the size 14 of previous years.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which analyzed data from over 5,500 U.S. women, found that the average waist size has increased from 34.9 inches to 37.5 inches over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Dunn, a lead expert on the study, believes this information is crucial: \u201cJust knowing where the average is can help a lot of women with their self-image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunn, along with co-author Deborah Christel, calls on the fashion industry to adapt to these changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese women aren\u2019t going away, they aren\u2019t going to disappear, and they deserve to have clothing,\u201d Dunn emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p>The message is clear: it\u2019s time for clothing designers to update their sizing standards to reflect the reality of the modern American woman, embracing her true shape and size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard of beauty is changing, driven by social media, where women can proudly display their natural beauty in all shapes and sizes. A recent study in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions\/15802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}