These Fashion Trends Of The Past Made No Sense
Bottle-Green Dresses Were Dyed With Arsenic
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This one just baffles us. Turns out, bottle-green dresses were all the rage in the Victorian era. When looking at such dresses, you can’t deny their beauty for that specific time, but once you learn the truth behind them, it may make you think twice! To achieve this desired shade of green, the fabric used was dyed using large amounts of arsenic.
Some women suffered impaired vision, nausea, and skin reactions to the dye, and if that doesn’t horrify you, these symptoms were basically shrugged off because the dresses were only worn for special occasions. However, the garment makers were the real sufferers as many died while producing this questionably fashionable trend to life.
