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Four recent studies, using wildly different data sets, radically different methodologies, and spanning countless cultures, provide further evidence regarding men's preferred waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) ...

The fashion industry is ignoring the changing shapes of women's bodies, a study claims today. Designers and manufacturers still insist on making clothes that fit the traditional hourglass figure, when ...

Men have long held up women such as Marilyn Monroe as icons of female attractiveness. But researchers now say this isn't just a superficial judgement - women with hourglass figures are more likely to ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The Louvre Museum in Paris last week opened an exhibition charting couture from the past 65 years – the first dedicated fashion show ...