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This newspaper article from 1916 documents the new and increasing stigma around fat bodies. As ready-to-wear clothes replaced hand-sewn clothing thanks to standardized sizing, people with larger bodies were locked out of this progress due to…

Photo collage featuring two New York City icons--the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center (1962) and Marilyn Monroe's white dress aloft on a New York City street (1954)

First bilingual bollywood movie was called "Karma" which was produced in Hindi and English and shown in Europe and India due to production assistance from European investors. Devika Rani is the main actress or lead heroine and she plays a princess…