Killer Clothes – The Arsenic Pigments that Poisoned the Victorian Age

in life •  7 years ago 

We all know that history is littered with dresses that wanted nothing more than to kill their wearers . shout out to fire loving crinolines and organ squishing corsets! But it wasn’t just dress engineering that could led to an early grave; the colour of your dress could also lead to a very nasty end! I present to you, Scheele’s Green, a hue with a mission to kill every Victorian it could.

Arsenic was an everyday item in Victorian England. It was just one of those things you had in you’re house, like soap, cosmetics, even playing cards. Actually arsenic was used to make all of these…

Source: F YEAH HISTORY . https://fyeahhistory.com/2017/08/16/when.good.dresses.kill/

Music: Anguish by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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