beauty

[Marco Anglesio]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Daniel Davies wrote:
> take a random example, standards of beauty take such radically different
> approaches to the question of underarm hair on adult women. And so on, and
> so on. 

I think you're confusing beauty with fashion. Presence or absence of
underarm hair, differing hairstyles, makeup, clothing, even body type, is
more about fashion than beauty. For many of the above, it's more about
wealth (or the appearance of wealth) than beauty. 

Marco

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