In every exhibition, show girls always wear sexy dressing and smile happily. They catch people ’s eyes and attract many customers to buy things they promote. In recent years, being model is popular in Taiwan. Be familiar with model, being a show girl is a dream of many young women in Taiwan. It is their best choice of doing a part-time job.
The figures of show girls are similar. They are always slim, bosomy, and not that short. They are too thin in the whole. The researcher wants to know that whether there is a standard of show girls ’ figure, what they are, and who sets this standard. The researcher also wants to know how show girls look upon their body, what the body value they have. From those questions, the research hope to understand the body value of young women.
According the research founding, show girls are too thin. Their figure are controlled severely by their brokers which make their body become ’the disciplined body ’. Because they think the thinner the prettier, they treat the thinnest show girl as their model of figure. Their body is just like the reflecting ’mirroring body ’. All show girls want to be slim women rather than be healthy ones. They use unhealthy ways to keep their figure and take it for granted. They join this endless ’the competition of slim ’ voluntarily, but lose the independence of their body at the same time.