Lena
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An very interesting post! And you´re right words have a different meaning for different people and it differs from culture to culture/time era to time era. If we would send Victoria to several tribes in Africa, they would probably call her skinny, because they have a more womanly (fatter) ideal. And if we would send her to France, they would probably call her big-boned, because women are generally more "petite" in France. And if we would send her to the old Greeks, she would probably be just right, because they had just such an ideal (trained, little muscular women/men).
Personally I would call her "slim, but muscular". Hollywood-starlets would I rather call thin, and some skinny (e.g Calista Flockhart). People like Mary D. would I call "fragile", she´s taller than Victoria, but she seems to have another bone structure. Even in her skinniest times Victoria didn´t look fragile, rather emaciated.
In english you have the word "Victory", so isn´t the first thing, which comes to a mind of an US-inhabitant (probably for the Brits it´s different) is "to win something", when someone says "Victoria"?
BTW The only thing which I like in these pictures is the hair length. The dress (independent from the skinny girl in it) looks cobbled together from a tailor-trainee in the first term!
Personally I would call her "slim, but muscular". Hollywood-starlets would I rather call thin, and some skinny (e.g Calista Flockhart). People like Mary D. would I call "fragile", she´s taller than Victoria, but she seems to have another bone structure. Even in her skinniest times Victoria didn´t look fragile, rather emaciated.
In english you have the word "Victory", so isn´t the first thing, which comes to a mind of an US-inhabitant (probably for the Brits it´s different) is "to win something", when someone says "Victoria"?
BTW The only thing which I like in these pictures is the hair length. The dress (independent from the skinny girl in it) looks cobbled together from a tailor-trainee in the first term!