While bridal fashion trends come and go, there’s a particularly distinct silhouette currently making waves: the basque waist.

Over the past 40 years, our waists have thickened by four inches. In the Fifties and Sixties, the average British woman boasted an enviable hourglass shape with her 36B-24-36 statistics.

That’s why you don’t see many women with beer guts. 3. Women with small waists are submissive Men have always been the dominant sex - men’s largely superior upper-body strength has made any ...

American males, it has been calculated, spend some $3 billion a year to gaze at women with hourglass figures, those whose small waists blossom into sinuously curvy hips. Men rate women as most ...

The Daily Mail’s latest ‘scientific’ offering on women’s bodies is at best insulting and, at worst, incredibly damaging. Heidi Scrimgeour explains why we need to stop ignoring the real ...