When we get right down to it, the oversized body and booty types that are celebrated today are
completely separated from any black women beauty standards we desired in the culture prior to the late
1990s/2000s.
Try to find 50-inch azzes in your grandaddy's Players Magazine.
In the song "Brickhouse," the lyric went like this:
"She knows she got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, yeah, yeah
How can she lose with the stuff she use
Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-six oh what a winning hand
The barbershops back in the day used to have Jet Magazine opened to the Beauty of the Week page.
The Beauty of the Week ladies were the go-to sex symbols in the community in what seemed like forever.
And go ask your great-grandfathers about Freda Payne.