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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Ep. 9 - Dangerous and Deadly Victorian Fashion