Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Ep. 9 - Dangerous and Deadly Victorian Fashion
In today's episode, Genevieve discusses how Tuberculosis influenced fashion, hazardous beauty routines, deadly hatpins, the dangers of corsets, and strange, kind of gross beauty trends, as well as some really weird and intriguing facts about Victorian fashion.
References for today's episode:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/
https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/
https://thevictorianhistorian.com/beauty-fashion/
https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leeds-mercury-death-of-matilda/30613252/?locale=en-US
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hatpins-mashers-self-defense-history-women-hats-fashion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_green
https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/
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