TB Victims of Fashion?

Tuberculosis has a very strange fashion and beauty history
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TB Victims of Fashion?

#1 Post by auntiebi0tic » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:44 pm

"Before the advent of antibiotics, its victims slowly wasted away, becoming pale and thin before finally dying of what was then known as consumption.
The Victorians romanticized the disease and the effects it caused in the gradual build to death.
For decades, many beauty standards emulated or highlighted these effects. And as scientists gained greater understanding of the disease and how it was spread, the disease continued to keep its hold on fashion."




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