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July 4, 2024 77 mins

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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