History's Fashion Trend People Were Dying To Get

1. Lotus feet (isn't as beautiful as it sounds).

On the 10th century, the Chinese placed high value on women with tiny three-inch-long feet. They broke and restructured foot bones, which meant limited walking, never ending pain and fatal infections.

2. Ladies wore toxic makeup for a wealthy look.

Back when paleness indicated how wealthy you were, many fashion victims used white, lead-based makeup. Poisonous lead ate away facial skin, caused nausea and made your teeth rot.

3. Another thing proving wealth was your rotten teeth.

The Elizabeth era introduced people to pricey sugar, and made aristocrats teeth rot. They found a good excuse for having gross molars- declaring dental decay a new trend.

4. To get attractive wide pupils woman used poisonous eye drops.

These eye drops were made of hallucinogenic herb. Neither distorted vision nor elevated heart rates scared these stylish ladies.

5. A tiny waist had a high price.

To get the waist of their dreams women squeezed themselves into tightly laced corsets. These corsets mashed internal organs, crushed ribs and made ladies faint due to shortness of breath.

6. Stylish Edwardian gentleman died for their high collars.

These collars, loved by women, were so stiff they cut off the blood supply to the brain. Some dandies died from asphyxia, choked by their own trendiness.

7. 300 years after lead makeup, radioactive makeup was all the rage.

When radium was discovered in 1898, it was used in face creams and soaps to energise the skin with vitalising rays. This radioactive trend gave cancer to many energised women.

8. Shiny shoes came together with toxic polish.

The shine- inducing chemical nitrobenzene, caused just minor side effects when shoes were dry. But if you put on freshly polished shoes, you could expect anything from fainting to turning blue.

9. In the early 1900s, removal of hair through radiation was a thing.

To make their legs hair-free, women exposed them to x-rays. They developed cancer but at least they never had to worry about shaving.

10. Platinum blondes bleached their hair with a toxic mixture.

Hollywood of the 1930s set a trend for bright blondes, who bleached their locks with ammonia and clorox. The combination produced a noxious gas, which led to kidney failure.

Modern fashion trends can be weird, skinny jeans can get little bit uncomfortable but you are lucky that your fashion choices probably won't kill or poison you.

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