Editing Siamese cat (section)

===Traditional Siamese versus modern development===
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In the 1950s–1960s, as the Siamese was increasing in popularity, many breeders and cat show judges began to favour the more slender look. Breeders created increasingly long, fine-boned, narrow-headed cats through generations of selective breeding. Eventually, the modern show Siamese was bred to be extremely elongated, with a lean, tubular body, long, slender legs, a very long, very thin tail that tapers gradually into a point, and a long, wedge-shaped head topped by extremely large, wide-set ears.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

By the mid-1980s, cats of the original style had largely disappeared from cat shows. Still, a few breeders, particularly in the UK, continued to breed and register them, resulting in today's two types of Siamese: the modern, "show-style", standardised Siamese, and the "Traditional Siamese", both descended from the same distant ancestors, but with few or no recent ancestors in common, and effectively forming distinct sub-breeds, with some pressure to separate them.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

In addition to the modern Siamese breed category, [[The International Cat Association]] (TICA) and the [[World Cat Federation]] (WCF) now accept Siamese cats of the less extreme type, and any ''wichianmat'' cat imported directly from Thailand, under the new breed name [[Thai cat|Thai]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://tica.org/public/breeds/th/th.pdf | title = Thai Breed Standard | author = The International Cat Association | access-date = 9 September 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090407080734/http://tica.org/public/breeds/th/th.pdf | archive-date = 7 April 2009 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="WCF Breeds">{{cite web |url=http://www.wcf-online.de/WCF-EN/standard/rassen.html |title=Recognized and Admitted Breeds in the WCF |work=WCF-Online.de |date=2016 |access-date=4 April 2016 |archive-date=15 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215022120/http://www.wcf-online.de/WCF-EN/standard/rassen.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other, mostly unofficial, names for the traditional variety are "Old-style Siamese" and "Classic Siamese", with an American variation nicknamed "Applehead".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~sarsenstone/threetypes.html |title=The Types of Siamese |first=Cris |last=Bird |access-date=27 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930012742/http://home.earthlink.net/~sarsenstone/threetypes.html |archive-date=30 September 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oldstylesiamese.co.uk/old-style-siamese/|title=What is an old style? |first=Julia |last=Craig-McFeely |date=2003}}</ref>

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File:Тайская кошка Синка Тайна Таун, WCF, окрас сил поинт.jpg|Traditional "applehead" Thai cat
File:A classic seal point Siamese cat.jpg|Traditional seal point Thai cat
File:Kot Tajski.jpg|Traditional seal point Thai cat with a round head and a bulky-build body
File:Siamese cat Vaillante.JPG|Modern seal point Siamese cat (side view) with a slim "wedge head" and a slender-build body
File:WedgeheadSealpointSiamese (cropped).JPG|Modern "wedge head" seal point Siamese cat
File:Siamese cat.jpg|Modern seal point Siamese cat (front view) with extremely large, wide-set ears
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