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The rear has been the focus of fashion since
the 19th century when the highly fashionable
bustle highlighted and exaggerated the form
of female bottom. But it was the 1940's and
50's before the rear really came into its own,thanks
to Betty Grable, Marylyn Monroe and Jane Russel-
and a full, rounded rear view.
It was all
change in the 1960's with a smaller, neater
rear popularized by 'Twiggy' and Jean 'The Shrimp'
Shrimpton.The 1970's and 80's brought with them
a gradual increase in the size of fashionable
rears until the 1990's when health and fitness
became a major fashion influence-slimmer and
trimmer being the key ambitions of the fashion
conscious.
Last
year the fitness theme was still apparent and
Javine Hylton danced her way to the peak of
rear supremacy. For 2007, the 25th Anniversary
of the Rear of the Year, bottoms are slightly
more rounded although they remain pert and well
defined.
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