Someone asked me a rather provocative question the other day:
“Why do women put themselves through torture to look good: high heeled shoes, painted-on jeans, control-top stockings, corsets and shapers, push up bras, waxing? (Oh, and none of that is cheap either.)”
Hmmm … there are so many ways to answer this question: a lesson on the sociological and anthropological history of beauty, a feminist diatribe about how wrong it is that our modern society still bases a woman’s worth on her looks, a little primer in the economics of beauty.
But I thought I’d spare you all that, and just ask my girlfriends what they thought.
It’s not surprising they all said the same thing: Women do all those things — and more — because we want to look good.