"Footwear (2)," 1953

Why do people go on as if the Fifties were some kind of fantastic Golden Age for the "larger woman"? Okay, so nobody expected her to spend twenty hours a week at the gym while playing wife, Mom, and wage slave (and perpetually dieting, of course). But you know that underneath that cute little outfit, she's still squeezed tight as a drum in some fugly girdle. Even if she's yet to reach the ancient age of thirty.

From the March issue of Family Circle magazine.