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In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...
A 1948 photo of Italian women in midriff-baring bikinis. In some cultures, exposure of the midriff is socially discouraged or even banned, and Western culture has historically been hesitant in the use of midriff-baring styles. Bill Blass commented: It is too difficult. Women will much more readily wear bare-back or plunging-neckline styles. [3]
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Nakeya Brown (born 1988) is an African-American conceptual photographer. [1] She often uses hair to explore themes of Black womanhood and beauty. [2] In Time, Alexandra Genova writes "Through her confrontational images centered around beauty and hair care, Brown holds up a mirror to herself and to society, questioning the accepted rules for femininity and showing why they should be broken."
Pages in category "African-American female models" The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Armour was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois to Gaston Armour Jr. and Authurine Armour. After her parents divorced, Clarence Jackson married Authurine. Both her father and her stepfather had served in the military - Gaston Armour was a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and Clarence Jackson was a former Marine Corps sergeant who served three tours in Vietnam. [2]
Strange that the article talks about gender equality in the modern era, but I count 1 male navel half hidden and no less than 22 female navels, including two on statues. Obviously this represents the same kind of thinking we see in Playboy magazine or in professional athletics, Ironman, triathlon, etc.
The Japanese have long had a special regard for the navel. During the early Jōmon period in northern Japan, three small balls indicating the breasts and navel were pasted onto flat clay objects to represent the female body. The navel was exaggerated in size, informed by the belief that the navel symbolized the center where life began. [24]