History's killer fashion: arsenic dress to go on display at York Castle Museum
“Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion & Life” from 25 March 2016In contemporary language, ‘killer fashion’ tends to refer to cutting-edge designs, but a new exhibition – Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion and Life - opening at York Castle Museum for Easter 2016 explores different periods in history where following the latest fashion trends could quite literally curtail your life expectancy!
As the exhibition’s senior curator, Ali Bodley, explains, fashion history is littered with designs and styles that would could have lethal consequences when worn: “Ingredients that we now know to be toxic