Women's guide to looking good in the 17th century

The Cosmo magazine of its day. Yearning to be rail thin was a problem back then too:

Bodies that are very Lean and Scragged, we must own, cannot be very Comely: It is a contrary Extream to Corpulency and the Parties Face always seems to carry Lent in it.

What's wrong with Lent? A bit of sacrifice to reflect upon transcendence never hurt anybody. Just goes to show what comes from the land ruled by a materialist ethos.