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Fashion to Die For: Haunted Threads & Deadly Trends

Fashion to Die For: Haunted Threads & Deadly Trends

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We’re back with another dive into haunted haute couture! In our first spooky fashion episode, we covered arsenic green gowns, mad hatters, and more—but we couldn’t resist returning to explore even more deadly designs from history. From corsets stiffened with whale baleen to the ghostly glow of lead-based beauty creams, this episode peels back the silk and lace to reveal the horrors beneath the hemline. We’ll talk about The Spirits of Saturn, the poisonous “foundation” that claimed lives in the name of pale perfection, and the belladonna eye drops that gave Renaissance women their hauntingly beautiful, and sometimes literally blinding, gaze. Because when it comes to fashion, history proves one thing: beauty has always been a killer.

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