The disease of tuberculosis made up the beauty and fashion of one era


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'Beautiful' makeup and fashion are changing with the times, and they are greatly influenced by the background of the times, such as the trend of easy-to-move pants styles during the war. The 19th century Victorian beauty was created by the epidemic lung tuberculosis that was described by Smithsonian.com, the operating media of the Smithsonian Institution .

How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion | Science | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-tuberculosis-shaped-victorian-fashion-180959029/

Marie Dupleci, who is said to be the model of the heroine of the novel “Tsuhime”, which has been set up many times, has been blessed with the flower shape of the social world in Paris because of its beauty, and she is 23 years old with the intellectuals such as Franz Liszt A woman who died in The pulmonary tuberculosis that led to the death of this Dupleci was said to have caused a great deal of epidemic in Europe and the United States in the 1800's, but at the same time it had a major impact on fashion.

Pulmonary tuberculosis was known as a “consumption” symptom before the cause was known. If you have lung tuberculosis, your appetite and weight loss will thin and lighten your woman, making the skin pale and stressing beauty. From this, it is said that in the upper classes, 'whether or not a person is vulnerable' is judged by the beauty of women. Weakness before it turned out to be an infectious disease was thought to be caused by the above 'hereditary' or bad air.


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Roksolana Zasiadko

'The intertwining with the beauty of women has made the tuberculosis more and more beautiful,' said Carolyn Day, an associate professor at Ferman University, in his Consumptive Chic book. Also in the book published in 1909, many of the patients had delicate, translucent skin and smooth hair, and the frequent slight fever also caused the eyes to become hazy and rosy cheeks and lips to It is written that it was colored red.

And since the mid-1800s, a style that emphasizes or mimics the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis has become prevalent. Corsets and voluminous skirts emphasizing the lower part of the waist for fineness are gaining in popularity, and among upper and middle class women, it simulates the skin brightness and lip and cheek redness of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The make-up has become common.



In 1882 Roberto Koch discovered tuberculosis bacteria, and finally the idea that “lung tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria” has spread among doctors. And this time, long skirts worn by women are criticized by doctors as 'causing bacteria to stay home'. In addition, Corset has also become a target of criticism for aggravating pulmonary tuberculosis because it 'improves lung movement and worsens blood flow.' This is the background behind the emergence of the “health corset,” which is a rubber material with weak clamping, which replaces the corroded framework that was popular during the Victorian era.

Similarly, men's fashion was also affected by illness. Sideburns and beards were popular during the Victorian era, but they were considered to be the source of harmful bacteria. A variety of diseases such as measles,

scarlet fever , diphtheria , and tuberculosis have been transmitted from the beard, and the beard has disappeared from the faces of men, especially surgeons and physicians.

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