[LMB] Beauty, now OT: and veered away from: SciFi vs Fantasy

[Tzivia Adler]

> I wrote, not *entirely* subjective.  Yes, certainly *somewhat*
> subjective.  "There's no accounting for taste."  ...  The things that 
> change
> are usually "fitness" indicators.  Wealth and health.  Obesity in women
> is indicative of both.  Fitness is usually considered beauty.  Those
> skeleton supermodels are not universally admired.  I don't think they
> are attractive at all.
>
> --Mark Allums
>
> -- 
and since clothes are supposed to enhance beauty, why were bustles ever 
popular?  was a huge rear end a sign of health or wealth?  although 
considering hte price of fabric maybe it was a sign of wealth...

ziviya, wondering how "buns of steel" and associated excersice videos would 
seem to the women who wore bustles...