Fashion cycles invert which bodies are deemed beautiful

Evidence

One of the small consolations of frivolous fashion is that now, at last, it is the turn of the white world to be ugly. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2866

Categorization

• CANDY: A witty, tweetable reversal: the brief consolation of trend cycles is that beauty standards rotate, and have started rotating toward darker skin.
• QUESTION: What historical cycles of ‘ugliness’ has whiteness gone through, and how much of beauty-standard inversion is genuine rather than mere trend appropriation?