• A Dye to Die For

  • Nov 5 2021
  • Length: 25 mins
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A Dye to Die For

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  • 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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