Fashions To Die For – Details, episodes & analysis

Links and Resources for You Glow Girl:

On The Web:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/when-beauty-products-were-radioactive/index.html

https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php

https://clickamericana.com/topics/beauty-fashion/radium-vanishing-cream-facepowder-

1919

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/looking-radiant

https://dustyoldthing.com/7-vintage-collectibles-radioactive/2/

https://www.ntanet.net/radioactive-gems-and-jewelry

http://www.beadcats.com/radhaz.htm

https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-akiller-

workplace

http://www.lgrossman.com/pics/radium/


Podcasts:

The Dollop podcast – Episode 99: The Radium Girls


Books:

 Santos, Lucy Jane;  Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium (Icon Books, 2020).

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Three exceedingly silly middle-aged women discuss hair removal, hair dyeing, air brushed tee-shirts, and Spike from Buffy.

SHOW NOTES:

Hair Removal:

Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, Rebecca M. Herzig

Naked to the Bone by Bettyann  Kevles

The Invisible Rays Seen Round the World by Lish James

Collins, P. (2007). Nothing but a ray of light. New Scientist, 195(2620), 68-69.

https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-hair-removal-was-a-public-health-crisis/220770/

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-most-terrifying-hair-removal-methods-of-all-time

Hair dye:

 Fashion: The Mirror of History by Michael Batterberry and Ariane Batterberry

Fashions in Hair, the first 5000 years by Richard Colson

https://www.byrdie.com/hair-color-history

https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports-and-everyday-life/fashion-and-clothing/clothing-jewelry-and-personal-adornment/hair-coloring

https://fyeahhistory.com/2018/01/13/the-horrifying-history-of-hair-dye/

Episode Notes:

Sources:

Web:
https://historydaily.org/crinoline-victorian-fashion

https://bizarrevictoria.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/death-by-crinoline/

https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/08/death-by-crinoline.html

https://fiveminutehistory.com/crinolineomania-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-crinoline-empire/

https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history

https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HsFYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Books:
Bowman, Karen. Corsets and Codpieces: A Social History of Outrageous Fashion. New York: Skyhorse, 2016.
Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian & Edwardian Fashion. New York: Dover Publications, 1981. Nightingale, Florence. Notes On Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. London: Harrison, 1859.
Vincent, Susan J. The Anatomy of Fashion. New York: Berg, 2009.

Articles:
“The Perils of Crinoline.” New York Times, March 16, 1858
“Christianity and Crinoline.” New York Times, September 15, 1858
“Crinoline: A Real Social Evil.” The Guardian, October 16, 1861
“Secesh in Petticoats.” New York Times, November 2, 1862
“Mrs. Cleveland Against It.” New York Times, February 19, 1893
“The Shocking Age.” New York Times, September 20, 1925

 

Two exceedingly silly middle-aged women discuss the Victorians' love for deadly dyes and poisonous complexion remedies.

This episode's sponsor is UniBlow (an exceedingly silly ad by Darryl Wade of The Black Fedora  https://www.charlestonmysteries.com/).

SHOW NOTES:

Sources for Arsenic Dye:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/10/dress-hat-fashion-clothing-mercury-arsenic-poison-history/#close

https://www.racked.com/2017/3/17/14914840/green-dye-history-death

https://theattic.jezebel.com/the-arsenic-dress-how-poisonous-green-pigments-terrori-1738374597

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Past and Present by Alison Matthews David

Sources for Arsenic in Beauty Products:
https://www.globalfounders.london/blog/dangerous-beauty-a-short-history-of-hazardous-cosmetics-and-nat

https://www.thecut.com/2013/12/most-dangerous-beauty-through-the-ages.html

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