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Old 08-18-2006, 02:12 PM  
Scootermuze
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In the 19th century, amid the Victorian era, females were preferably delicate, blonde and white-skinned women. They gave off this angelic imagery and innocence that the era embraced.

In a novel entitled The Woman in White by renowned Victorian author Wilkie Collins, the descriptions of blondes in the tale are attractive and seemingly delicate, whereas descriptions of brunette women were unappealing and somewhat masculine -- let's just say it; brown-haired, olive-skinned women were ugly. And most literature from that era took such a stance.

So because the brunettes stood up for themselves and their independence while the blondes held on dearly to their men to be saved and taken care of, blonde women slowly became known as weak and unintelligent, so to speak.


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