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Not even the most dedicated transvestite could enjoy the annual rite of trying on bathing suits. All year long you've been judged by your efficiency, your creativity, your managerial talents--and suddenly, when you enter that fitting room, the only operative criteria are tilt of breasts and firmness of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Think of the implications of this startling fact for the average woman facing a fitting-room mirror. Nothing can make you fully beach ready: not total abstinence from carbos and fat, not Madonna's workout regimen, not even a $100 suit hot-wired for maximum curves. If Julia Roberts is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Biologically speaking, it might still be worth the humiliation of trying to squeeze into a size-8 suit if the payoff were a guaranteed increase in reproductive fitness. According to the most recent beauty research, this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Yes, men are still drawn to the kind of female geometry that excited their caveman ancestors, but this atavism only seems to make them resentful. My dear brother, for example, a man whom the concept of political correctness persistently eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

George is a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist who has been the victim of an unfortunate divestment, left at the altar by his sassy, tousle-haired fiance. But this isn't an episode of Must See TV, so George doesn't seek solace from close friends and a laugh track. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: NOW, THE SEX FILES | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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