10-14-2012, 07:17 AM
(10-14-2012, 05:04 AM)brad1984mason Wrote: Well in Shakespeare's day big obese women with pale skin were in fashion and skinny women with a tan were paupers. Today pale obese women are out and skinny
tanned women are in.
I beg to differ. This myth seems to come from a cherry-picking of Peter Paul Rubens' paintings during the time of Shakespeare. Rubens's preference for painting obese women seems to stem from a personal preference rather than a social standard of female beauty. Rubens's contemporaries (Carravagio, Van Eyck, Veslaseques, Botticelli, Cranach) painted women who approximately matched the eternal ~0.7 waist:hip ratio that is still popular today.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway