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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1d:T512,This week, we investigate the historical fashion trends written about in an 1884 Harper’s Bazar article entitled “The Follies of Fashion.” Covering everything from Ancient Roman curling irons to Cleopatra’s donkey milk baths to “barbarous” steel corsets, we decipher fashion fact from fashion fiction. Primary Sources Box for rouge and patches, 1750-55 Jean de la Bruyère’s translation of The Characters of Theophrastus Memoirs of Madame de la Tour de Pin Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Hi

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