Beauty’s only skin deep. But as the humorist and playwright Jean Kerr sagely pointed out, skin deep is plenty deep enough: “What do you want: an adorable pancreas?”
In Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty, British historian Margarette Lincoln chronicles the myriad extremes that women have gone to across four centuries in pursuit of the ideal face and form (if not pancreas).
It’s not pretty. Fortunately, it’s pretty fascinating.
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