Episode 36, Killer Fashion and Beauty Part 3
Yes my darlings, today is Part 3 of Killer Fashion and Beauty! And we have a lot of deaths to cover. The Victorians really had a rough go of things, as we already knew, but today’s episode really drives that fact home. Today we cover:
Shirts
Corsets
Lice
Typhus
Arsenic Green
Perkin’s Purple
Radium
Next week is the last part of the series, I’ll see you then!
Sources:
Written in Bone by Sue Black
Botanical Curses and Poisons by Fez Inkwright
Killer Style by Alison Matthews David and Serah-Marie McMaho
The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard
Fashion Victims by Alison Matthews David
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(clothing)
https://wonderfulcollection.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/skirt-grip/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Harlow#:~:text=The next day at 11,Hospital records mention uremia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna#:~:text=Belladonna drops act as a,objects, and increased heart rate.
https://www.geriwalton.com/death-by-corset-and-tight-lacings-in-the-1800s/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
https://www.mbari.org/animal/strawberry-squid/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histioteuthis_heteropsis