Showing posts with label victorian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label victorian. 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"...

Sunday, January 16, 2011