Fashion Fatal Beauty

Fashion always seems to have something to do with beauty, and people seldom notice the hidden problems. The fashionable victims of fashion show the stories behind popular culture vividly. Alison Matheus David, a doctor at Stanford University, focuses on the material culture, medical humanities, class and gender in fashion.

Victims of fashion. Data map

In the process of reading, I have an impulse to remind people who love beauty and to understand the fatal aspects of fashion from past history. Although most fashion related diseases occur in nineteenth Century, we still see more than three inches of high-heeled shoes, twisted body sculpting clothes, more dyestuffs, and seemingly harmless elegant ribbons. All these are full of people's daily life.

The victim of fashion is an alternative fashion history, which tells a story about how fashion is fatal. The author surveyed the fashion articles and texts of the world's major museums, showing a large number of historical pictures and historical events, including the lice worn military uniform, the death of Oscar Wilde's half sister and the scarf of the dancer Isadora Duncan. Ordinary people's daily life is inseparable from all kinds of clothing protection. Clothing is not only a fig leaf or a carrier of beauty. However, many times, clothing becomes an evil killer and an accessory to death. Weird clothes are certainly more lethal.

When people appreciate the beautiful colors, elegant texture and novelty materials of fashion clothes, they rarely consider where these new things come from. In fact, these fashionable things come from nature almost, but are the products of people exploring the chemical world. Some of the colours that nature can't find is coming to the world through synthetic dyes. Soft felt must be chemically treated and dyed to make the hat that almost every man wears. Fashionists are transformed into the explorers of the chemical industry, trying personally to extract chemical toxins and infectious diseases, whether accidental or intentional. Fashion has become the cause of death, disease and madness in history.

The hardest hit area was France, Britain and North America in the late nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century. Since then, fashion has changed the natural laws of the body step by step. For "elegant and delicate" fashion men and women, the external image is far more important than the internal health: ladies wear heels with high heels, wearing a tight skirt, wrapped in corsets, and stumbling on the road; men wear heavy bowler hats and sweat, and their neck is washed hard collar collar. These people are "slaves" and "victims" of fashion. They can also be called "martyrs". Since 1830, gender differences have been highlighted in the fashion industry. Women naturally become the main audience in fashion. For centuries, the harm of fashion to human beings can not be evicted from the outside world, whether the garment makers or the wearers. Land, air, water, human beings and animals are all victims of fashion. Fashion culture does create many inexplicable things that do not accord with human physiological characteristics. Some fashionable fabrics are infectious diseases themselves or chemical toxins left. Attractive green skirts are stained with arsenic and are easily choked to death. Skirts are made of flammable materials and may be burned alive.

Today's fashion industry is still thick and dangerous. The "waterproof platform" type of sponge cake shoes and "hate sky" shoes are often seen on the road, but today's love beauty seems completely unknown. As early as more than 20 years ago, these shoes caused more personal injury accidents. For example, in 1999, a Japanese nurse fell down and broke his skull because he was wearing high-heeled cork thick bottom shoes. He died a few hours later because of rescue. In 1995, a 25 year old young woman from Tokyo, Japan, drove home from a shopping mall with her companion. Because the sole is 8 inches thick, it seriously affects the braking effect. The car bumped into a concrete pile, and the friend on the vice driving position died on the spot. There is also a more than 20 year old young mother in the United States. "When a cable car is used, a long scarf is wrapped around the cable car on the opposite side and pulled out of the seat." The unfortunate lady died of suffocation. The mortality rate of this kind of accident is as high as 45%. Moreover, the new fashion is constantly refreshing these dangers, and children are at high risk. Accidents caused by scarves or other clothing are frequent. For example, if the button of the jacket is stuck in the playground facility, or the back button sweater is wrapped around the playing fence, if the child goes back to the guardrail and slips to the ground, the sweater will probably hold the child's neck like a shoelace, making him unable to breathe. Today, the popular retro style, wide petticoat, long skirt, and the ribbon and accessories are indispensable. All of them may be turned into fire, or involved in gates, machines or even wheels. All this reminds us from time to time that we need to be more cautious about the beauty of fashion.