The modern woman will seemingly suffer any indignity to achieve the dream of a svelte body, recalling that day of old in which, "The King of Chu loved thin waists, and half the women in his palace starved to death."
觀察現代女性為瘦身夢所受的罪，令人不禁產生「楚王愛細腰，宮中多餓死」的時代錯覺。