Yet by the 1960s, models like Twiggy had already slimmed down to 32-22-32. In the 1950s, for example, Marilyn Monroe epitomised the ideal woman with a voluptuous hourglass figure of 37-23-36. The findings, published in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), conclude that the trends were at odds with claims that centrefolds' body shapes were still more "hourglass" than "stick insects." Researchers at universities in Canada and Austria compared height, weight, bust, waist and hip measurements of 577 models from issues of the adult magazine dating from 1953 to 2001 and found they had become less shapely and more androgynous. LONDON, England - A study of almost 50 years of Playboy centrefolds has revealed that the characteristic differences between men and women are becoming less pronounced.
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