In those days, the beauty of the lady, hidden from the sight by many screens and curtains, was judged by the beauty of her poems, and her mind by the speed of her answers in poetry correspondence. (from the wiki article "A Tale of Gandhi")

xxx: Replace screens and curtains with proxy and photoshop - well what is not?

YYY: It is not. The beautiful woman was still able to push out the edge of the sleeves behind the curtain, painted in especially sophisticated shades.

yyy: About the mind and correspondence in the "Gandhi monogathary" one of the characters just says that they have already gotten this mind, these grandmothers have to write answers when to go to work ;-)