the horrific history and pernicious present of fashion\'s unfinished death toll

The media at the time described Matilda Sheller\'s death in disturbing details.
While historians believe that the details of her death range from reliable to exaggerated, one thing is certain: she died horribly.
November 20, 1861-year-
The old man began to vomit \"green water \". She twitched.
The white color of her eyes and nails turned green.
Her mouth, nose and eyes were all foam.
She then passed away, and the doctor called it \"a manifestation of extreme anxiety \".
Scheurer\'s job is to apply a popular green pigment to the artificial leaves of the artificial Corolla with her hands.
Long before the millennium pink, there was arsenic green.
As the most popular color of the Victorian era, everything from opera dresses to gloves and even wallpaper presents bright green color.
Arsenic green, brighter, longer
Arsenic and copper are mixed together and made longer than other green plants.
While we now know that only 1/8 teaspoons of the mixture constitute a lethal dose, the garment workers at the time were exposed to the gallons of arsenic.
A report from the London Times later revealed that each schleshava flower contained poison enough to kill 20 people.
Her autopsy also confirmed that the arsenic she used every day had reached her stomach, liver and lungs.
Sadly, the story of Scheurer is far from unique.
The history of fashion is full of terrible deaths.
In fact, the past of Western clothing is so toxic, a miracle that a Victorian man survived.
But perhaps the most surprising aspect of fashion\'s deadly history is that many cases, if not entirely deliberate, are completely preventable, and death is often the result of our worst tendencies: satisfy the selfish desire to maintain a certain position and take advantage of the murder that the worker makes a quick profit or is simple but not mitigated.
Serah, former fashion editor-in their new book \"killer style\"
Associate Professor Mary McMahon and Ryerson University
Alison Matthews David tells the story of deadly costumes for centuries.
\"The most surprising situation is that people know the dangers of something, but still wear it,\" said Matthews David . \".
The killer style shows the \"Mercury hat for killing people\" like this \".
Hat in the 1730 s-
Manufacturers have found that adding a small amount of mercury to cheap fur makes them felt.
This is very important because other fur supplies are either being reduced or are becoming more and more affordable.
However, years of exposure to mercury have caused the male gums to shrink, the teeth to fall off, and the tongue to swell so that the mouth cannot be closed;
Their arms and legs twitching.
Many men also have paranoid personalities, so they are called \"mad hats \"(
Some people think it inspired the most famous mad hat in Alice\'s Adventures).
Although the terrible effects soon became apparent, men continued to wear these felt hats until they became unfashionable in their 1960 s.
In fact, Mercury is not banned in the United States. S.
It was not until 1990 and Canada that the relevant regulations were issued until 2014.
\"Sometimes the reason people are killed is purely an accident.
Your scarf was caught on the journeykart.
But sometimes there are power dynamics, and people take advantage of others, \"McMahon said.
It is for this reason that the story of the RA girl is the hardest to write, she said.
In the 1900 s, the women of RA were women who worked in a factory. they painted Ra on their watches so that they could shine in the dark.
To draw the details better, they are instructed to place the RA on the brush and then bring the brush to the Super with the tonguefine point.
\"It means they keep getting micro all day.
\"There was Ra added to their mouth,\" McMahon said . \".
\"Some women only worked there for a year and eventually died of RA poisoning, which will not happen soon.
It really rotted you from the bones;
It\'s not a pleasant way to go.
When the women shouted out loud, the factory owner denied that RA had anything to do with death and made up other excuses to explain the reasons.
In the end, a lesson was launched by the RA girl --
Lawsuits will always change health and safety regulations at work.
Unfortunately, none of the women really live long enough to witness the legacy they have received so tragically.
Although many of these stories have happened in the past, there are still fashion deaths today.
The most notorious modern
The fashion disaster of the day was the collapse of 2013 Rana square in Bangladesh, killing 1,134 garment workers. workers.
However, a smaller one
Known cases revolve around young Turkish men who are responsible for sandblasting jeans to achieve early fashion
The year 00 s faded.
Many men develop into advanced silica lungs after hours of daily inhalation of sand blasting particles (
Environmental lung disease).
The Turkish government banned sandblasting in 2009, but hundreds of people still die from the disease each year, a practice that remains in countries where other regulations are more lenient.
\"Anyway, these jeans are so ugly, it\'s crazy to imagine those horrible jeans killing a whole generation in the whole town of Turkey,\" McMahon said . \".
\"It\'s still a huge problem for people who make clothes.
\"On a more positive note, the total number of deaths caused by fashion has dropped significantly.
A dress or a hat bought today can\'t kill you.
This is due to lessons learned from the past, scientific progress and increased regulation.
\"Although it really depends on how long it takes to kill you,\" McMahon said . \".
\"If something kills you quickly, it\'s found to be much faster these days.
If it takes a long time to kill you, then it is often difficult for people to determine exactly what it is.
Of course, this is one of the main issues driving the green fashion and beauty movement.
Many beauty products also contain formaldehyde, petroleum, heavy metals, flame retardant and other substances.
The same chemicals can also appear on clothes along with other carcinogens and hormone disruptors.
Medical professionals, scientists, manufacturers and related consumers are still debating whether there is a \"safe\" amount for these chemicals. And their long-
The long-term impact is unclear.
Today, if you die immediately because of a dress, it is likely to be intentional.
Fashion assassination is more common than most people realize.
It has a long history of contact with chemicals and is known to be difficult to track.
In developing countries in particular, detection and reporting of poisoning cases is often very limited.
In Greek mythology, it is said that Hercules was poisoned by a shirt given to him by his wife.
In the Middle Ages, members of the royal family died of poisoned gloves, saddles and shirt tails.
Recently, in 2016, a Chinese woman added a toxic herbicide to her husband\'s underwear, known as pq.
According to the World Health Organization, 200,000 people die from poisoning each year, of which people are believed to be intentionally poisoned (
Although this statistic includesPoisoning cases).
While a long history of fashion is often considered frivolous, it is actually a life --or-
The choice of death attracts us to think better about what we wear and how it is made.
We must not only protect ourselves, but also those who are forced into dangerous and fatal situations because of our choices and consumer needs.
As climate change becomes an increasingly important topic, it is not unthinkable for generations to come to see the industry\'s lack of sustainable means of production as a deadly fashion.
In another twist you may not see, the killer style is actually a children\'s book published by Owlkids with colorful illustrations to match each story.