Tall, dark and handsome
"Tall, dark and handsome" is a phrase that refers to an appealing man, often found in romantic fiction aimed at women. The term came to prominent use in the early 1900s and was commonly used in Hollywood during the 1920s to describe Rudolph Valentino. As an idiom it is both lexically and sequentially fixed.Beauty standards
David Puts, an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the evolutionary bases of human sexuality stated when asked if the stereotype holds any weight that his initial answer was yes, but that not enough cross-cultural work had been conducted to be very confident about the question.
