Top-50 high-fashion models

Pictures of the top-50 high-fashion models -- as of March 30, 2007 -- have been added to this site.

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Lisa Welch

Lisa Welch

Lisa Welch was Playboy Playmate for the month of September, 1980.  She has been added to the attractive women section.

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Human evolution: initial steps toward an hourglass figure in the female

The female hourglass figure obviously reflects sexual selection.  However, sexual selection acts on male-female differences to start with.  Therefore, what prompted shape differences in the first place?  Boguslaw Pawlowski and Marzena Grabarczyk have written a paper on this, and it is addressed here.

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I am not alone

A follow-up on Lauren telling me "you are not alone"...

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ACNielsen report: Majority of global consumers find female fashion models "too thin"

Excerpts from an online survey of 25,000 individuals in 45 countries (Jan. 30, 2007):

Petra Nemcova not spared, either; models and their agents ready to sue

Miscellaneous news items of interest...

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Fan email: You are not alone

Lauren, a fan of this site, sent me the following article to let me know that that I am not the only person to have made some of the core arguments presented here.  Although it dates to 2002, it is worth reproducing here.  I have bolded some parts that point out some of the key issues mentioned within this site, and have added a few comments (in italics).

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Masculinized women among Miss USA 2007 contestants

Mostly a compilation of the more masculine contestants in the upcoming Miss USA 2007 beauty pageant, to be held March 23, 2007...

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The 2006 Miss USA beauty pageant: are beauty queens supposed to look like prostitutes?

Margaret Burnquist

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Rapid judgment of aesthetically pleasing waist-hip proportions in women

Achim Schützwohl reported the results of a study that exposed men to line drawings of women, in pairs, with front-view waist-to-hip ratios of either 0.5, 0.7 or 0.9, varied by altering waist size.  Each pair of images was shown for a duration of 1.25 seconds, and the male participants were asked to judge the figures for attractiveness, fecundity, health and pregnancy status.  A shortcoming of the study was using the crude line drawings originally used by Devendra Singh, previously discussed in an entry addressing various confounds related to waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and attractiveness in women.  Another shortcoming was not using more subtle variation of WHR.

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