10 Fashion Trends That Are Super Dangerous

Fashion fads come and go—but did you know that some fashion trends are downright dangerous? One day you re in the in-crowd, and the next day your skin is falling off and your lungs are melting! Join Michael Aranda for a fun new episode of SciShow! ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://hyperallergic.com/133571/fatal-victorian-fashion-and-the-allure-of-the-poison-garment/ http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/deadly-victorian-fashions/ Arsenic Pigments http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Metals/ucm280202.htm http://www.lilinks.com/mara/history.html http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/overview/emerald.html http://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0529.pdf https://thepragmaticcostumer.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/drop-dead-gorgeous-a-tldr-tale-of-arsenic-in-victorian-life/ https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/emerald-green-or-paris-green-the-deadly-regency-paint/ http://journals.ed.ac.uk/resmedica/article/viewFile/182/799 http://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-arsenic-dress-how-poisonous-green-pigments-terrori-1738374597 http://www.pysanky.info/Chemical_Dyes/History.html https://books.google.com/books?id=FSwNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA276 https://books.google.com/books?id=CGQ9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=236188 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=570645 https://books.google.com/books?id=nQcCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA459 http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/motm/perkin.html http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=449&tid=79 https://books.google.com/books?id=DZE0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA664 https://books.google.com/books?id=izvOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA679 Asbestos Fabric http://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/history/ https://books.google.com/books?id=acQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA52 http://www.asbestos.net/exposure/occupations/manufacturing/furnace-men-smelter-men-and-pourers/#top http://www.ijera.com/papers/Vol2_issue5/DN25675680.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11210016 https://books.google.com/books?id=ShpaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA562 https://books.google.com/books?id=re4pCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 http://www.econscious.net/images/stories/pdf/bamboo%20article%20link.pdf http://www.nrdc.org/international/cleanbydesign/files/CBD_FiberFacts_ViscoseRayon.pdf Mercury Hats https://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/mad-hatter http://connecticuthistory.org/ending-the-danbury-shakes-a-story-of-workers-rights-and-corporate-responsibility/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tox.10116/abstract http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Mad+Hatter+syndrome Lead Makeup http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X01001961 http://www.jcia.org/n/en/info/b/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=2484407 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440310002682 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22546056/ns/health/t/suffering-beauty-has-ancient-roots/#.VsSDrZMrK9t https://books.google.com/books?id=LpplCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 https://books.google.com/books?id=e9fel0gM3j0C&pg=PA10 https://books.google.com/books?id=FRE4AAAAMAAJ http://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks http://weheartvintage.co/2014/02/14/radioactive-cosmetics-makeup-of-the-atomic-era/ http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/radiationexposureandcancer/index http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-3104&I=523&M=tdm http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/49/1262/227.full.pdf http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed003p757 https://books.google.com/books?id=PpTi_JAx7PgC&pg=PA288 http://www.chemistry.pomona.edu/chemistry/periodic_table/Elements/Radium/radium.htm http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/science/a-glow-in-the-dark-and-a-lesson-in-scientific-peril.html?pagewanted=all https://labalsadelanostromo.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/cosmetica-luminosa/ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-atropine-eye-drops.htm http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2001/gerrard/atropine.html https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/531.html http://mentalfloss.com/article/50259/fatal-attraction-7-terrifying-beauty-practices-history https://nei.nih.gov/health/glaucoma/glaucoma_facts Celluloid Combs and Other Accessories http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/conflicts-in-chemistry/the-case-of-plastics/blog/dangerous-materials.aspx http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19040430.2.17.6 https://books.google.com/books?id=R7UOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA211 https://books.google.com/books?id=uZdlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 https://books.google.com/books?id=_YhMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA661 https://books.google.com/books?id=svM4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA170