S23E2 - Beauty Standards Through the Ages You Wouldn’t Believe | History For Sleep

Today, you’ll discover just how dramatically the idea of being “beautiful” has changed throughout history. From elaborate hairstyles and unusual cosmetics to prized body shapes, clothing, skin treatments, and grooming rituals, qualities admired in one century could look completely different in another.

We’ll travel through ancient civilizations, royal courts, Renaissance cities, Victorian dressing rooms, and more recent decades to explore what people considered attractive and, more importantly, why those standards existed in the first place.

Along the way, we’ll uncover how wealth, social class, religion, available technology, fashion, advertising, and changing cultural values inf...