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Soft girl or softie describes a youth subculture that emerged among Gen Z female teenagers around mid-to late-2019. Soft girl is a fashion style and a lifestyle, popular among some young women on social media, based on a deliberately cutesy, feminine look with a "girly girl" attitude. Being a soft girl also may involve a tender, sweet, and ...
Gibson Girl. The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [ 1] The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of ...
The female opposite of a girly girl is a tomboy.The male counterpart of a girly girl is a "man's man".[citation needed] The increasing prevalence of girly girls in the early 21st century has been linked to a supposed "post-feminist, post–new man construction of masculinity and femininity in mutually exclusive terms", [5] as opposed to the more blurred gender representations of previous decades.
Mudflap Girl. Mudflap Girl is a silhouette of a woman with an hourglass body shape, sitting, leaning back on her hands, with her hair being blown in the wind. The image was created in the 1970s and is found on mudflaps, clothing, and other items associated with trucking in the United States. [ 1] The image is also referred to as trucker girl or ...
Elle Girl (2001–2006, US) Ewomen (online magazine, for women from the Indian subcontinent) Family Health (1969–1991, US) The Farmer's Wife (1897–1939, US) Fatat al-Sharq (1906-1929, Egypt) The Female Spectator (1744–1746, UK) Femina (1972–2023, Indonesia) Femina (1982–2010, South Africa) Femmes françaises (1944–1957, France ...
A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also ...
Effeminacy or male femininity[ 1][ 2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [ 3] These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women. Throughout Western civilization, men considered effeminate have ...
Androgyny in fashion. Androgynous fashion is a combination of feminine and masculine characteristics. Social standards typically restrict people's dress according to gender. Trousers were traditionally a male form of dress, frowned upon for women. [1] However, during the 1800s, female spies were introduced, and Vivandières wore a certain ...