.....or so Glamour magazine would have you believe:

Magazine requested 'photogenic' war widows By Guy Adams

Published: 22 September 2006
The editor of Glamour magazine has apologised after a reporter issued an appeal for "photogenic" modern war widows.

Jo Elvin said she was "outraged and sorry" that Military Families Against the War had been sent an e-mail asking if they could provide case-studies of women, aged between 30 and 38, whose husbands had been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
[from the Independent]

Gawker has kindly elaborated, with the news that the email stated:

"Glamour is very looks-conscious so, at the risk of sounding ridiculous, they need to be photogenic, or at least comfortable in front of a camera! [...] The editor likes to approve each case history, so when I send her a short bio ("X is aged X and lost her husband X in the war X") she likes to see a jpeg pic too. I know this is a big ask, but it's something she demands! Hey ho!"

Classy. Very classy. And to think that fashion journalists are decried as vacous toothpicks who'd sell their grandmother's kidneys for an over-sized handbag and have an IQ equivalent to a catwalk model's waist size .......