Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles.. In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma.. The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972..The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time. Naomi Wolf
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Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles of that new style began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles of that new style began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles of that new style begun. The Vogue's clothing department had never made much money. They had also never held sway over fashion beyond their immediate walls. But they always tried to control their own image. And so, when menswear became popular, they had trouble keeping up with it.

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