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2. Female body shape - Wikipedia

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   Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's bone structure along with the distribution of muscle and fat on the body. Female figures are typically narrower at the waist than at the bust and hips .

3. Hourglass figure - Wikipedia

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   It has been proposed by scientists that the evolutionary reason for the female body shape is due in part to this sexual selection.Sex-typical body shapes (a man's muscular physique and a woman's hourglass figure) are an outcome of evolutionary adaptation for reproductive fitness because they convey information about gene quality, health and fertility, which are important elements for mate ...

4. Girdle (undergarment) - Wikipedia

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   Girdles and "body shapers" are still worn by women to shape their figure with a garment. Indeed, the 21st century has seen a large resurgence of shapewear being worn, specially with the advent of new fabrics and seamless construction, so that modern shapewear is substantially more comfortable than its corsetry based garments from the previous ...

5. Foundation garment - Wikipedia

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   A foundation garment (also known as shapewear or shaping underwear) is an undergarment designed to impermanently alter the wearer's body shape, to achieve what some view as a more fashionable figure. The function of a foundation garment is not to enhance a bodily feature (as would, for example, a padded bra) but to make it look more presentable.

6. Body shape - Wikipedia

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   Body shape has effects on body posture [30] and gait, and has a major role in physical attraction. This is because a body's shape implies an individual's hormone levels during puberty, which implies fertility, and it also indicates current levels of sex hormones. [1] A pleasing shape also implies good health and fitness of the body. Posture ...

7. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

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   9.2 Ideal body shape for women. 10 See also. 11 Notes. 12 References. ... women consider a full body with good distribution to be highly important to be considered ...