<p>"Today’s perfect woman might closely resemble a Victoria’s Secret model. But 100 years ago, the female physical ideal was very different.</p>
<p>A series of articles in 1912 and early 1913 saw Brooklyn-born Cornell student Elsie Scheel, 24, hailed ‘the most nearly perfect physical specimen of womanhood’." …</p>
<p>What a difference a century makes.</p>
<p>[171</a> pounds, a pear-shaped body and a taste for beefsteak: Meet Elsie Scheel, the Cornell student declared 1912’s perfect woman | Mail Online](<a href=“171 pounds, a pear-shaped body and a taste for beefsteak: Meet Elsie Scheel, the Cornell student declared 1912's perfect woman | Daily Mail Online”>171 pounds, a pear-shaped body and a taste for beefsteak: Meet Elsie Scheel, the Cornell student declared 1912's perfect woman | Daily Mail Online)</p>