Introduction

Beauty is a social construct. Beauty standards are meant to be unobtainable, so they always have to shift. In the 19 fifties you get this exaggerated feminine form, an hour glass figure, a tiny waist and a large chest. The ideal of beauty that is usually held up some sort of white, si, thin woman. And that embodies the prevailing fashion for beauty. How have beauty standards for men changed throughout history? Interdays? Everything you want to know. Was lucy jane santos, a historian of health and beauty who is also the author of half lives, the unlikely history of radium. Speaking to her was roanan davis.