Hey again everybody,

So now we’re into the 1960’s and I figured the covers of Vogue would be a great magazine to cover. I believe this because Vogue is a widely known magazine to women and mostly women have graced the cover. This post will cover how different the focus of the covers have changed from the 60’s compared to this time era and how it affects the representation of women and censorship. Here are some 60’s magazine covers: March 1962, November 1964, March 1966, and May 1968.

And here are some current Vogue magazine covers: November 2009 and December 2009.

[All images from: http://whosdatedwho.com]. There is an apparent difference between the two time eras of the same magazine. That difference is the 60’s covers is all face and the current covers have the entire body on the cover. For some mysterious reason, the entire body was not commonly photographed to be the cover, just the face. Not only was the face gracing the cover of vogue, but so were the awkward hairstyles. This led me to believe that the media found hair and face important when it came to publishing their issues to the public. When you reminisce on watching 60’s movies and seeing the housewife, the first thing I notice and as well as peers, is that the hair is always nicely done. Therefore, in the 1960’s, the representation of women dealt mostly with focus on the face and how nice your hair could be done. Contrasted to these days, Vogue has the entire body photographed and it is always the ideal body pictured as portrayed by media, skinny. This influences women to believe that to be beautiful is to be skinny. This relates to censorship because in the 60’s the importance of hair and face could be objectionable by many families and emotionally harmful to families who could not afford the necessities to keep up with the trend. In conclusion, the representation of women from the 60’s to now have changed from face to face and full body and a beauty should have it all.
~Krystale