November 26, 2004
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Carpet flesh fest
By Toby Forage
November 26, 2004
RESEARCHERS in the UK have discovered a rising trend among celebrities towards showing skin at red carpet functions.
A study, commissioned by cinema giant Odeon, has revealed that celebrities today are exposing 59 per cent of their bodies, and if current habits continue, by 2010 that flesh flashing figure could hit an eye-popping 75 per cent.
Memories ... Liz Hurley, that dress and that red carpet moment / AP
Even in the free-spirited 1970s, celebrities exposed as little as seven per cent of their flesh. That had risen to 13 per cent by 1980.
By the 1990s, Liz Hurley decided enough was enough and arrived at the Four Weddings And A Funeral premiere on the arm of its star Hugh Grant in an infamous Versace gown held together by "designer" safety pins.
Others followed, taking the average skin exposure to 39 per cent across the decade.
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Have we really come to the point of measuring the percentage of bare skin showing and comparing those numbers to previous decades'?
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