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Tue 02 Feb 2009First Lady spurs new arms race
GIVE ME A BREAK:A LOT OF ATTENTION has been focused on Michelle Obama’s clothes, with Vogue magazine celebrating her sense of off-the-peg style, but what about those arms? Muscled, curvy, brown and – dare I say – sexy. Slick and subtly shining, they are at the very centre of her cover shot, representing what, exactly?
Every generation has its erogenous zone. In Victorian times, legs were regarded as so tempting that the curved legs of pianos and tables sported cotton cover-ups to quell the desires that bare legs of any kind ignited in men. The female body was corseted into an exaggerated hourglass shape requiring extreme lacing that, today, would be regarded as a niche fetish. Then, it was normal.
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