Soft filters. These filters can have circular depressions (eg: Zeiss Softar) or embedded netting (basically a glorified way of putting nylon stocking over the end of your lens, ...
You can do very good soft filter effects for example. Maybe there are a few effects like "starbursts" or multiple images that might be easier to do with a filter than in software, but personally, if I really wanted such effects, ...
It would be a soft filter for sure and for example purposes it is somewhat ridiculous, but nevertheless brings up an important point. I would like to see UV attenuation vs. sharpness.
Monks at sunset, Angkor Thom, Bayon Temple, Cambodia. A Cokin Sunsoft filter added a warm cast and slightly diffused glow to the image.
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm at 100mm, ISO 200, handheld with Image Stabilizer on ...
While the model is the central feature of glamour photos, other aspects light lighting and soft filters are key to producing a professional looking glamour shot.
Both "diffusion" and "softening" filters are used towards the same objective: to reduce blemishes and wrinkles in portraiture. Make people look better. The soft filter is just a more elaborated diffusion lens.
Also the soft filter might be handy to blur an intrusive background. Loosely select your subject with a feathered lasso. Reverse the selection and soften the background by applying Gaussian Blur or any of the many other blur filters.
 See also: Photograph, Photography, Filter, Filters, Light
  
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