Showing posts with label 1800. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1800. Show all posts

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Deadly Victorian Fashions



  An interesting article by writer Anne Kingston about the dangers of Victorian fashions. Arsenic ball gowns, flammable crinolines (“Crinoline fires” killed 3,000 women between the late 1850s and late 1860s in England), "holocaust of ballet girls"...

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

A Map of Woman's Heart from 1800s. Funny...

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A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart, created by D. W. Kellogg circa 1833–1842. Pic fround here.