Historically Hazardous Fashion Trends: Corsets, Arsenic, and More

Fashion has gone through some dangerous phases!

In the past, people wore things that were pretty harmful to their health.

Corsets squeezed waists so tight they made it hard to breathe.

Dresses made with arsenic gave people skin problems.

Foot binding, which was common in China, broke and deformed women's feet.

Wide skirts called crinolines caught fire easily, and people put belladonna in their eyes to make their pupils wider.

Platform shoes made walking tricky, and stiff collars limited neck movement.

These trends show how far people would go to look fashionable.