Clothes can also "kill people": Western "high-end fashion" that once killed people

Clothes can also "kill people": Western "high-end fashion" that once killed people
In today's Western world, in judging a person's status, apart from speech and behavior, it mainly refers to the weight and body of the other person:

The kind of wheat-skinned, lean, muscular, and well-balanced men and women are mostly from the middle and upper classes; and the people who are seen everywhere who stagger and twist their fat bodies are mostly the lower class people-in today's In European and American societies, it is indeed a very expensive thing to maintain a slim body and healthy complexion.
However, once Westerners judged their wealth and status, they mainly used skin color and clothing.

From the Middle Ages to the 1950s, for a long period of time, Westerners also regarded white as their beauty.

In particular, the morbid and pale beauty belongs to the "top match"-even some people will deliberately get tuberculosis in pursuit of the white and thin "aristocratic sense".

This is largely because in the long agricultural society and the unfinished industrialization era, white skin means that you don't have to work in the open air and run around, it is like a symbol of a wealthy class.

In addition, there are extremely complicated and exaggerated costumes, which also make it clear-I am so inconvenient to wear because I don't have to do physical work, go out and take a carriage, and someone at home is waiting for me!

For example, once the standard equipment for western gentlemen-hard collar.
From the end of the 18th century, European men's wear began to become popular with a hard-collared shirt.

Some of these shirts have been specially treated and stiffened, and some are simply supported by metal wires inside.

Obviously, wearing this kind of stiff collar, the masculine temperament has improved a lot, the waist is straight, the neck is also stiff (you can't breathe without it), and the whole person is full of energy, especially style.
The Soviet version of "War and Peace" stills-the military uniforms of the early 19th century also have hard-collar elementsHowever, although this fashion item is handsome, its comfort is extremely poor~because it is very hard, the man wearing the shirt must consciously hold his neck. In the event of an accident, it is easy to squeeze into the carotid artery or even The trachea, which brings a fatal danger.

For example, in the middle of the 19th century, there was such an accident on a British train-a passenger was squeezed by a crowd while getting on the train, and then died of excessive blood loss from the carotid artery.

The wire inside the passenger's hard collar came off the line and touched the skin. Sadly, when he got into the car, he bowed his head and was squeezed to his neck-the wire was inserted into his carotid artery.

In 1888, there was an accidental death in the New York Times news-a drunk man was found dead in a park. An autopsy revealed that this person fell asleep on a park bench after drinking too much. As soon as his head drooped, he was obstructed by the collar and his trachea, which eventually caused his death by suffocation.
Stills from the British drama "Downton Abbey". After entering the 20th century, men's hard collars will only appear at very formal dinners or dances.Another "fatal tide suit" is undoubtedly women's tights.

As early as the late Middle Ages, European adult women began to tie their chests and waists, and even rose to the point that they were not good women without tights.

For this reason, a new phrase was born-"to be strait-laced", which literally means "tighten your lace", but the deeper meaning is to remind women to stick to women's way-in that era, tight-fitting Clothing is actually closely related to the concept of "chaste".

The one-piece bodysuit made of stiff fabric and metal wire is not so much a piece of clothing, it is actually more like an armor, and there is hardly any comfort at all.
Wear tights and grab it from the dollAt that time, a large number of western women not only caused muscle atrophy and severe bone deformation due to their serious wear of tights, but their internal organs were also oppressed and damaged to varying degrees, and even suffered pelvic hemorrhage and sequelae of infertility. A woman was pierced by the metal embedded in her kidney because she was wearing a "low-quality tights"...
However, there is a bodybuilder who is quite fierce-Queen Elizabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Princess Sissi), known as the first beauty of the European royal family, actually wears tights to sleep and exercise for decades in order to maintain her figure. Moreover, the straps on her tights are all sewn with needles, because she is worried that the straps will be loose and affect the shaping effect!

Even so, once the waist circumference exceeds 50 cm (about one foot five), she will be full of guilt, and she will go on a hunger strike for a period of time until her body "recovers" to a state of satisfaction.
Princess Sissi got this set of equipment, from head to toe for 4 hoursThe next thing I want to say is more deadly-pantomime.

The earliest pannier was invented by the Spanish and was called Faqingel.

People found that after using the skirt, the fluffy and bulging skirt not only made the upper body more slender and sexy, and concealed body defects, but also had its own aura, giving people a queen-like feeling.

Generally speaking, the material of panniers is generally iron wire or whale baleen. Especially for wealthy women with status, they often choose expensive whale baleen as panniers, because whale baleen is very soft, elastic and not easy to break. Ladies wear it. It is easier to sit and stand and is much more comfortable than wire.
Women wearing panties in the mid-19th centuryWomen wearing panties are not only inconvenient for their actions, but also take up space. A large room is filled with a woman walking in.

Therefore, we can see that in the Neo-Rococo period of the 19th century, almost all the doors, corridors, sofas and even train seats in public places were designed to be very spacious.....otherwise, it would be impossible to get in and sit. However, it is particularly prone to cause congestion.
What is even more unexpected is that these beautiful clothes will kill people if they are careless.

In the era of open flames for heating and lighting, panniers are a huge safety hazard-the material outside the panniers is very flammable, and it is quite difficult to put on and take them off. All kinds of buttons and straps can be strangled to death in a short time. It is impossible to take it off quickly.

In addition, once it catches fire, the huge shape is especially suitable for the rapid spread of flames. It is not possible to put out the fire in a rolling posture on the ground, and even the waist of the cat is strenuous. This leads to serious burns in a few seconds when the skirt catches fire. It can be dead, and there is no time to take any rescue measures, unless you bring a big bucket with you.

Back then, there were countless well-known women who were burned to death in panties, including many famous actors and royals, and countless severely injured and disabled.

For example, two sisters of Oscar Wilde went to a dance party. One of the girls was dancing and her skirt was burned by the fire in the fireplace. The other sister went to help her, and both of them were burned to death.
And Princess Sophie (1847-1897) was the sister of the aforementioned one-foot-and-five-foot Austrian Queen "Sissi", who became the Duchess of Alençon after marrying the Duke of Alençon in 1868. When she was 50 years old, she helped her companion's skirt to put on a fire in a theater in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, and was burned to death.

This can be regarded as a brave act of righteousness, and a heroic sacrifice.

The report about the accident said that in the theater, the ladies' big skirts suddenly turned into torches burning violently...

Even more tragic is the granddaughter of Ludwig I, Grand Duke Matilde of Austria.

Matilde, who pretended to be a good girl in front of her father's generation, was smoking a cigarette in private and accidentally ran into her father. He was so scared that he hid the cigarette behind him, but the flames splashed on the skirt. His family was burned alive and seriously injured, and eventually died, at the age of 18.
Worse still, in 1863, in a church in Santiago, Chile, a woman's skirt touched a candle and was on fire. People began to flee in panic~Unexpectedly, those huge panniers were crowded together, and the door was shut tight Stuck, and finally the entire church was burned down, resulting in more than two thousand deaths.

Theaters in the 19th century were the most vulnerable places to catch fire. According to statistics, between 1800 and 1877 alone, there were 516 theaters burnt to ashes. It was in the theater to rescue a girlfriend who was on fire, and was burned alive, and there were more actors who were burned to death or burned to death.
Heart of beauty in everyone. Compared with the popular "self-mutilated" medical beauty programs such as calf nerve cutting and ear filling, it is a little insignificant.