Plaits

American society in the nineteen fifties thought that the ideal beautiful women should look glamorous. By glamorous I mean the clothes that women wore had to be high class along with blonde styled straight hair. In the story “Plaits” in The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon, the author describes the images of beauty like Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was a young child that started in many movies and that signifies as beautiful. This Shirley Temple image was programmed in females in American society because everyone wanted Shirley temple hair. Females wanted to assimilate their hair to Shirley’s hair.

American society now is still having to deal what the media portray what women should look like. In television and magazine supermodels are seen as beautiful if they are a size zero and long blonde hair. One should not worry about the physical appearances because what really counts is hat is inside the person.

The word beautiful according to dictionary.com is, “having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight”. This means that when it comes to describing someone who is beautiful is not all about the appearance; it is about qualities that a person offers. Therefore, American society still believes in being skinny and looking like a million dollars but in my opinion, those people are ignorant.