24 seductive picture style icons of the XX century

From time to time you should look back at least in order to understand how beautiful it was, how easy and casual sometimes we were not putting any efforts.

But in our time, permanent self, cheap cosmetics and fashion on all shocking, controversial and scandalous (thanks to reality shows) we are losing some subtle, elusive sense of style.

Sex appeal is now much more aggressive than 50 years ago. Clothes become more openly, the cult of the perfect body is gradually taking fanatical momentum, and the main objectives and goals of youth are becoming easier and easier.

But do we have the ease and grace enjoyed by earlier generations? Who is today's equivalent of Audrey Hepburn? Can anyone of our contemporaries to match with Marilyn Monroe? Not if we made the fall of the standards of beauty? Of course, there are many different views and opinions on this, and the fashion is constantly evolving, but we can hardly deny the appeal of a classic beauty.

These 24 pictures — a reminder of the style and beauty of the past. Some women, you will learn some not, but all of them together represent the beauty standards of the past, and it's just great.

Jane Fonda.

Britt Ekland.

Annette Vadim (Stroyberg).

Flight attendants, 1968.

Raquel Welch.

Julie Newmar.

Betty Brosmer.

Jean Shrimpton.

Jacqueline Bisset.

Marilyn Monroe.

Jane Fonda.

Natalie Wood.

Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot.

Debbie Harry from Blondie.

Debbie Harry from Blondie.

Marilyn Monroe in the film "the Misfits" (The Misfits), 1961.

Brigitte Bardot.