How do stereotypical standards of beauty affect you/society?
Well, if it were stereotypically standard for wearing horizontal pink-and-purple stripes to be beautiful, I would more than likely be wearing something of that nature. What is generally understood as the appropriate outfit for people to wear is worn, in some fashion. We're all wearing t-shirts and jeans/sweatpants in school, but businesspeople are wearing suits and dress shirts/pants. If it's beautiful, in some facet of life, people wear it, so that they will somehow be accepted or admired in that aspect of life (or, in the case of wearing clothes at all, not to get arrested!). People would buy these things that make them beautiful, and this even affects the economy and profits for several businesses. The psychological effects of beauty exert themselves on the young, those who have the most potential to change and become beautiful. Models starve themselves to be skinny, and burn their skin constantly to look tan and attractive. The implications of beauty are a lot more widespread and influential than most people would expect.
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