At least on DA, the site for amateur artists to post their work, women and girls seem to be wearing more skimpy clothes. Even depictions of well known fictional characters---Cinderella, Tinker Bell, Supergirl---have them wearing very skimpy clothes.
As I have observed before, the membership of DA is mainly young male artists with very adolescent tastes, which results in some of the art being the sort of thing that teenage boys would reputedly scribble in the margins of their notebooks; only now it is put up on the Web. These pictures have always been scantily clad.
But on Instagram, and other places where girls upload photos of themselves, I wonder whether more skimpy clothing is the norm? And what about guys? I see a lot of pictures of guys in shorts, but that could be because it's getting to be summer. We've got to study this for a full year before we jump to conclusions.
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