How did women go so wrong

The fashion gurus have got it all wrong, claims an expert in visual perception. Far from making you look thinner, wearing clothes with vertical stripes will accentuate your girth
Women of a certain age will be replacing their wardrobes and Geordie football fans will be crying into their Newcastle Brown Ale. Scientists have discovered that the fashion mantra that wearing vertical stripes makes you look thinner is not true. In fact, horizontal stripes are more flattering to those with a less than perfect physique.
The accepted wisdom from fashion gurus is that an outfit with vertical stripes appears to elongate your figure by drawing the eye up and down. Horizontal stripes supposedly do the opposite, making that unruly paunch look even larger than it actually is.
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Happy Passover

Women are getting more beautiful

FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.

The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.
Over generations, the scientists argue, this has led to women becoming steadily more aesthetically pleasing, a “beauty race” that is still on. The findings have emerged from a series of studies of physical attractiveness and its links to reproductive success in humans.
In a study released last week, Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, found beautiful women had up to 16% more children than their plainer counterparts. He used data gathered in America, in which 1,244 women and 997 men were followed through four decades of life. Their attractiveness was assessed from photographs taken during the study, which also collected data on the number of children they had.

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Jewelry - Art or Industry?

I read up on the history of jewelry-making. Until just a few decades ago, jewelry was manufactured in small workshops, where you could find one of a handful of masters hard at work.

Each workshop had its own personality and style. Each was known for turning out products of jewelry that could properly be called "works of art."

Today there are jewelry factories where hundreds of people work. The jewelry industry is doing great.
As for jewelry art... authentic, unique objects that express the soul of the maker... This is something you have to hunt for. Generally, you find them only at craft competitions, in home workshops, and on the Internet.
Now they can properly be called "rare works of art." On photo ring "Sea Shell"designed by Renata Grabois
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