1. Beauty Natural and Non-Natural

2. The standards of beauty have changed through time…

3. What would Rubens think?

4. The standards of beauty also vary with culture…

5. While much of the developed world now prizes thinness in women…

6. …plumpness is still preferred in some cultures In Mauritania, many parents send their daughters to camps where they are fed up to 16,000 calories a day.

7. White skin is aggressively marketed in Asia 4 in every 10 women in Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan use a whitening cream.

8. …while American women continue to go to dangerous tanning salons.

9. But studies show that features such as symmetry are regarded as beautiful in most cultures…

11. Some evidence indicates that broad standards of beauty might be part of universal human nature.

12. In every culture, it seems that women (and men!) are willing to go to great lengths to make themselves more beautiful.

13. The Kayan women, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma, wrap brass coils around their necks when young and add more as they age.

14. In China, wealthy parents used to bind the feet of their daughters.

15. Today, Chinese men and women have their legs broken so they can gain a few inches of height.

16. Plastic surgery is becoming common around the world… …even among Iranian men.

17. Plastic surgery has skyrocketed in Asia in recent years. The most common procedure creates a fold in the eyelid and gives the look of bigger, more Western eyes.

18. In Korea, 1 in 5 adults have had plastic surgery.

19. It seems that no one can reach the standards of beauty that are set by the media. Many people complain that digital retouching (the “Photoshop” makeover) creates a standard of perfection that is unreachable— unattainable.

20. Many children and adolescents grow up hating the way they look.

21. Should a Japanese Miss Universe look like a Caucasian?

22. Should people be judged as objects at all?

23. Was this how the Facebook network started?

24. The Dove advertising campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0j f46Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0j f46U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0 W60Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0 W60I

25. English Fashions in the Regency Period

27. Menswear

28. The cravat

29. Who are they?

31. The Ball

32. What is he saying?

33. Who is she? What is she saying?

34. What is she saying?

35. Who are they? What are they saying?

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