Deadly fashion trends in history

Throughout the history of human beauty, there have been fashion trends that change the world, but there are also trends that make fashion fans miserable for the harms it brings.

Everyone has a different perspective on aesthetics, so most of us want to create our own fashion style. That is the reason that every decade has left its distinctive fashion imprints. For example, the loose and sloppy Grunge style of the 90s, the durable hair-rolling movement of the 80s .

Speaking in "modern" language, young people often have the "fashion weather" sentence . It is not wrong with the following "dead" trends , when fashion enthusiasts are willing to suffer or perform beauty tips that can cause them to die just to be "beautiful".

Makeup with chalk contains white lead

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In order to have pale skin, the ladies did not mind spending money on white chalk boxes or tubes filled with toxic white lead.

If today, many people pay both "tons of money" to get brown skin, under the reign of Queen Elizabeth, pale blue skin is a measure of perfect and rich beauty. Because it is thought that only people who struggle to work outside will tan their skin.

In order to get pale skin, ladies don't mind spending money on chalk or white powder filled with toxic white lead and thickening to cover the scars from smallpox. Unfortunately, this cosmetic is more harmful than beneficial. When used long enough, they cause the face to be damaged, paralyzed and cause baldness. The death of Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of Maria of Coventry is considered one of the proofs of the harmful effects of this deadly makeup powder.

Cosmetic cycles filled with radioactive substances

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It is impossible to calculate how many people have had cancer because of this strange beauty trend.

Since the Brazilian chestnut was first described scientifically by the French botanist Aimé Bonpland in 1808 and when the potential radium metal element was discovered, people have found a way to use the real kind. This is because they are rich in Radium.

Although it is a toxic substance, from about 1910 to the 1930s, many companies launched radioactive cosmetics sold to sisters: from makeup cream to good soap mud bath. It is impossible to calculate how many people have had cancer because of this strange beauty trend, but after that, this deadly cosmetic market has been pushed back when people are aware of the harmful effects of radioactivity.

Chopines shoes

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The Chopines shoes follow that also become increasingly half a meter tall.

Chopine shoes are thought to be necessary to walk in mud-filled streets and full of horse manure in the 16th and 17th centuries. To avoid getting dirty with expensive dresses when going through bogs, girls The prostitution in Venice, in Northern Italy, has used this kind of wooden shoe.

Chopines shoes are used by noble women for another reason. The higher, the more women have to use more clothing fabrics and prove their wealth. The Chopines shoes follow that also become even half a meter tall, making it difficult for the ladies to walk on "stilts" without danger.

That is the reason for the expiration of this trend, but today, high-heeled shoes still play an important role for women and not for men.

Dyeing black teeth under Queen Elizabeth I

If the "white addiction" to the point of "dazzling eyes" is an American fashion, then black teeth are the style of the courtiers and many people under the Queen Elizabeth First of the fog - one The first to discover the dangers of the road.

Although the effect of sugar made her become damaged and changed in black, it later became a trend when the courtiers imitated and made every way to have her "black teeth" like her. The black tooth ends when it is gradually removed and people realize the damage of damaged teeth due to blackening to health.

Attach teeth with precious stones

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Today, modern science and technology allow people to beautify their teeth in many ways, even new teeth replacement, gold teeth and silver teeth.

2000 years ago, Maya dentists were able to bring patients with bright smiles, but not in the "dazzling" way of the Americans, but sparkling with gems. They drill small holes and insert gems into them. However, gemstones should be stopped after a period of time when experts find that if manipulated with caution, the drill bits can go deep into the pulp and cause serious infection for the teeth.

Mydriasis with Belladonna poison

Known as the Belladonna (beautiful woman) , the plant with this lovely name is a deadly plant. With only a few drops of the Belladonna eye drops, pupils will be dilated - something that is thought to make women more attractive and beautiful like the Belladonna name.

However, after that, one must stop this dangerous fad because the Belladonna extract causes deadly side effects such as distorting vision, loss of concentration, arrhythmia and even blindness. blind. Perhaps this "beautiful woman" tree has no affinity for cosmetics but should only be used in ophthalmology to assist doctors in eye examination.

The deadly blue arsenic dyed dresses

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The coloring of clothes is difficult, so when there is a new color, everyone is looking forward and quick to have new clothes with new colors.

In the past, it was difficult to create colors for clothes so every time a new color was released to the market, everyone was looking forward to quickly making new clothes with new colors.

In 1775, when chemist Carl Scheele invented a strange green pigment, people began rushing to find ways to dye paper, dye stamps, paint, children's toys, skirts, even candies without realizing that one of the synthetic substances, arsenic is arsenic. Fortunately, the harmful effects of this substance were discovered even after it made the boys so terrified that they did not dare to dance with the girl wearing a blue skirt and dance.

Stretching the skull - the elite of the Inca era

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The Incas "tied" their heads with a hard object to distort the skull with the desired shape.

Nobody was born and had a complete skull. That's why moms often have to protect the baby's relatively soft head skull from strong bumps or hard objects. But under the Inca period, it was thought that making the skull longer was a sign of social progress and class of the upper class. The Incas "tied" their heads with a hard object to distort the skull with the desired shape. Inca skulls were found with distorted skulls and much longer than normal human skulls.

Die fire because of bulging skirt

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The fashion trend of women is only alerted and ended when a fire occurred in the church in Chile.

Promised in the 1850s, bulging skirts were puffed up by "terrible" frames made of wood, steel and cloth. Imagine the young women wearing bulging skirts and a heavy frame, swaying to fall when there is a big wind and easily catch fire when caught in the fireplace.

The fashion trend of women is only alarmed and ended when a fire occurred in the church in Chile but not many people escaped death due to the huge frames of the tight puffed skirt all the doors when everyone want to run away. About 2,500 people died in that fire.

The leg tightness

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This horror custom has been adopted by millions of Chinese women.

If asked "How to have a stylish feet?" You will think of pruning or pedicure. The "beauty of the legs" movement appeared in the Song Dynasty and the Thanh Dynasty prevailed not only at the foundation but also forming the whole leg bone.

This horror tradition has been adopted by millions of Chinese women who wish to have beautiful lotus heels with a foot length of no more than 4 inches. Although considered to be the standard of beauty and virtue of a woman, but this fad has caused no less pain for women when doing everything to keep their feet small by tightening, even tight both toes and feet, causing infection and bleeding so much that it can be fatal.