The same old story.

Magazines today are filled with unrealistic and unattainable images of women? Nothing new. Real life women have had ribs removed surgically to look like this:

I can only imagine what women had to go through to be this thin:

(Photoshop has some catching up to do in terms of distorting the female body for the sake of fashion.)

(I know photo manipulation is sneakier than illustration, but illustrations still set an unattainable goal, and women have always dieted and maimed themselves for the sake of "beauty". Today's thigh gap is last century's flat chest or the century before's 16 inch waist.)

(I recommend The Sartorialist etc for the tenth time. Images that are real, of actual—albeit usually thin—people, in interesting clothes.)