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Fashions To Die For

Fashions To Die For

By: Sarah Phillips Collins Holley Dougherty Natalie Raines
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A monthly podcast telling the stories of how humans have suffered (and died) for Fashion.© 2026 Fashions To Die For Art
Episodes
  • Episode 4: You Glow, Girl!
    1 Sep 2022

    Links and Resources for You Glow Girl:

    On The Web:

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/when-beauty-products-were-radioactive/index.html

    https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php

    https://clickamericana.com/topics/beauty-fashion/radium-vanishing-cream-facepowder-

    1919

    https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/looking-radiant

    https://dustyoldthing.com/7-vintage-collectibles-radioactive/2/

    https://www.ntanet.net/radioactive-gems-and-jewelry

    http://www.beadcats.com/radhaz.htm

    https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-akiller-

    workplace

    http://www.lgrossman.com/pics/radium/


    Podcasts:

    The Dollop podcast – Episode 99: The Radium Girls


    Books:

    Santos, Lucy Jane; Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium (Icon Books, 2020).

    Follow us @fashionstodiefor on Instagram and check out images on our Pinterest Page for this episode: https://www.pinterest.com/sarahpcollins/fashions-to-die-for/episode-4-you-glow-girl/

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    39 min
  • Episode 3: A Hairy History
    17 Jan 2022

    Three exceedingly silly middle-aged women discuss hair removal, hair dyeing, air brushed tee-shirts, and Spike from Buffy.

    SHOW NOTES:

    Hair Removal:

    Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, Rebecca M. Herzig

    Naked to the Bone by Bettyann  Kevles

    The Invisible Rays Seen Round the World by Lish James

    Collins, P. (2007). Nothing but a ray of light. New Scientist, 195(2620), 68-69.

    https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-hair-removal-was-a-public-health-crisis/220770/

    https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-most-terrifying-hair-removal-methods-of-all-time


    Hair dye:

     Fashion: The Mirror of History by Michael Batterberry and Ariane Batterberry

    Fashions in Hair, the first 5000 years by Richard Colson

    https://www.byrdie.com/hair-color-history

    https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports-and-everyday-life/fashion-and-clothing/clothing-jewelry-and-personal-adornment/hair-coloring

    https://fyeahhistory.com/2018/01/13/the-horrifying-history-of-hair-dye/

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    40 min
  • Dames Aflame
    3 Dec 2021

    Episode Notes:

    Sources:

    Web:
    https://historydaily.org/crinoline-victorian-fashion

    https://bizarrevictoria.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/death-by-crinoline/

    https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/08/death-by-crinoline.html

    https://fiveminutehistory.com/crinolineomania-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-crinoline-empire/

    https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history

    https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HsFYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


    Books:
    Bowman, Karen. Corsets and Codpieces: A Social History of Outrageous Fashion. New York: Skyhorse, 2016.
    Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian & Edwardian Fashion. New York: Dover Publications, 1981. Nightingale, Florence. Notes On Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. London: Harrison, 1859.
    Vincent, Susan J. The Anatomy of Fashion. New York: Berg, 2009.



    Articles:
    “The Perils of Crinoline.” New York Times, March 16, 1858
    “Christianity and Crinoline.” New York Times, September 15, 1858
    “Crinoline: A Real Social Evil.” The Guardian, October 16, 1861
    “Secesh in Petticoats.” New York Times, November 2, 1862
    “Mrs. Cleveland Against It.” New York Times, February 19, 1893
    “The Shocking Age.” New York Times, September 20, 1925

     


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    34 min
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