The Most Beautiful Women of the Early 1900s
The Most Beautiful Women of the Early 1900s Sep 15, 2018 Katie Vernon With Edwardian era, that has lasted from 1900 to 1912 came many life improvements that we still use today, such as electricity, cars, and vacuum cleaners, but it has also given us a fair share of bizarre facts, most of them concerning women. For instance, beautiful women of the Edwardian Era used Belladonna, a highly poisonous and even lethal plant, drops to make their pupils dilate, making the women look aroused (I'm not making this up, promise). They have also smeared their faces with lead cream to make them look pale. Oh, and a faint smell of dame's sweat was deemed very desirable by young gentlemen and even got a name as 'bouquet de corsage' (literally 'smells of the bodice'). And to top it all of, for a brief time in the Edwardian era, nipple piercing was the biggest trend (again, check it if you don't believe me). In spite of these absurd beauty trends, the era gave us some of th...