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From: wong@rtech.ARPA (J. Wong)
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Subject: Re: female attractiveness
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:53:28 EST
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The reason most models are thin is that clothes hang well on them.  Designers donot like to show their clothes on "bodies" ('cause that's all they really want)
that get in the way of the clothes (ie, breasts and ass) and detract attention
from them.

To think that models represent a `physical' standard of beauty that is absolute
in this culture is wrong.  One need only look at a magazine like Playboy that
has models who represent a quite different `physical' standard.  (Playboy modelsdo not look like fashion models, and visa-versa.)  Both types of models do tend
to represent a `racial/cultural' standard of beauty (WASP), which makes sense
because the WASP culture is the dominant culture in this country for good or
bad.

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				J. Wong		ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!wong

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