Pass notes, No 2,940: Rubens

Are you apple-shaped? No, you're a Rubens, according to lingerie-maker Triumph which says women are tired of having their bodies compared with fruit and suggests the female forms of the old masters insteadAge: 62, when he died in 1640.Appearance: Appley.I'm sorry? That, on the face of it, makes no sense. Then let me enlighten you. Lingerie-maker Triumph has discerned that women are fed up having their physical lineaments being likened to fruit and other inanimate objects (apple-shaped, pear-shaped, etc) and so are turning to artistic terms instead.How many women really look like 17th-century Flemish baroque painters though? And should they be encouraged to wear lingerie if they do? No, they are using the body types of the women depicted by various old masters to replace outmoded

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