A 70s special of Top of the Pops recently re-aired on the BBC, with music fans dancing unselfconsciously to artists like Donny Osmond and Alice Cooper. Aside from the unique 70s fashion and retro tunes, what stands out the most is how normal everyone looks – both those in the audience and on stage. The textured skin, misaligned teeth, receding hairlines and make-up free complexions with the occasional sheen of sweat sit in stark contrast to what we see on our screens today.
Beauty standards in TV and film have never felt more extreme. Consider the casting of Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, the titular creature is so repellent that “no mortal could support...
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