Full blooded Siamese cats and their offspring can easily be distinguished from all other cat races by their slender, graceful bodies. They originated in South East Asia . Nobody really knows why their characteristically slender body forms have dominated over such a long period of time. The first cats appeared in England in 1892 and the second generation in 1902 with a similar appearence to our modern day , slender Siamese.

Clever business men soon decided to cross-breed domestic cats with the few valuable, exclusive Siamese in order to increase their numbers. This resulted in two varieties of Siamese: Typical classical and
additionally the so-called "Apple-heads" from their domestic forefathers.....compact but elegant.

Exhibition classics ( FIFe) : Oriental cats like the Siamese, Balinese and Javanese varieties have common standards. The ideal cat is slender with a long, elegant supple body which is middle-sized and musculous.
Siamese and other Orientals should have short, close-fiting, sleek and shiny fur.