The Most Beautiful People: Evolving Standards of Beauty

JAMA Dermatol. 2017 Dec 1;153(12):1327-1329. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2017.3693.

Authors

Mayra B C Maymone¹, Hind H Neamah¹, Eric A Secemsky^{2

3}, Roopal V Kundu⁴, Dana Saade¹, Neelam A Vashi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This study used People magazine to compare standards of beauty in 1990 with present-day standards.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Beauty*
Esthetics / psychology*
Humans
Object Attachment*
Periodicals as Topic