Episode 36, Killer Fashion and Beauty Part 3

Mistress of the Macabre Podcast

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!
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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://ramblingsnscribblings.com/2020/04/17/a-selection-of-anecdotes-concerning-the-english-cuckoo-pint-arum-maculatum-april-2020/

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

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