Jennifer Hayes BFA Thesis Spring 2011
"Real" Women: A Study of Body Acceptance
My thesis is about body acceptance. Not the kind that is forced upon us by radio and TV, or by Internet ads and spam emails, but the kind that comes from loving your body the way that it is, naturally. I have created a series of paper dolls depicting the standardized female body shapes of inverted triangle, rectangle, pear, hourglass and oval. These shapes are used by the fashion industry to define women’s bodies so that designers can sell more clothes. The object of body shapes in my project is just a means to show an identifiable diversity of women’s bodies.