Renaissance beauty regimes
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The Ideals of Renaissance Men
Men would generally laugh dark for using cosmetics, but their apps absolutely did use them. And they absolutely did care about particularly putting on weight because there's a lot of emphasis on having chapley legs in the Renaissance for men. Men often own these beauty books aimed at women and things like baldness, cures, are underlined by men. Or how to make the face, stop the face going red after drinking wine, this kind of thing. So men are caring what they really caring what they look like, but it's less normalized for men, socially normalized for men to care about their looks.
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