Urban professional women are devoting up to a third of their income to "beauty maintenance". Today's standard of beauty keeps women psychologically and materially poor (Naomi Wolf, Beauty Myth, p. 52). In 1994 total retail sales for the American fashion and footwear industries were estimated at $246.5 billion (Kaz-Cooke, p.151).. So, hey, looks like we're already donating plenty. |
