Indeed. I vaguely recall from my high-school days how much less attractive some girls looked in gym clothes, while others actually looked better.
I have a similar feeling about the cliched 'Hollywood transformation scene' or Beautiful All Along.
On the one hand, it's pretty absurd to show 'geekette into goddess' since the actress was selected for goddess-potential in the first place - on the other hand, it is empirically demonstrating that the same physical girl* can look geekette vs goddess, and while the average girl does not have the same potential nor access to movie facilities, illustrates that there can be a substantial difference**.
* An assumption that grows less true as time passes, I suppose...
http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2012/09/toward-non-stupid-non-blank-slatey.html
The author gives a shout out to Less Wrong as a community with a perpetually skewed gender ratio, which is precisely the conditions under which polyandry appears to thrive.
Discuss. :)