• Skinny Jeans

Skinny jeans have been given a health warning, after an Australian woman had to be cut out of a pair.

Giving new meaning to the phrase ‘fashion victim’, a 35-year-old Australian woman had to be cut out of a pair of skinny jeans after developing a condition called compartment syndrome.

The woman had to be cut out of the pair of jeans after her calves ballooned in size, medics said in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

She had spent hours squatting to empty cupboards for a house move in Australia. By evening, her feet were numb and she found it hard to walk.

Doctors believe the woman developed a condition called compartment syndrome, made worse by her skinny jeans.

Compartment syndrome is a painful and potentially serious condition caused by bleeding or swelling within an enclosed bundle of muscles - in this case, the calves.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150624-when-fashion-kills

• Crinoline

The structured petticoat did more than just enhance a silhouette. During the 19th Century, at the peak of the crinoline’s popularity, there were several high-profile deaths by skirt fire.

In July 1861, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rushed to help his wife after her dress caught fire.
According to the Boston Daily Advertiser, “While seated at her library table, making seals for the entertainment of her two youngest children, a match or piece of lighted paper caught her dress, and she was in a moment enveloped in flames.”
She died the following day.

Oscar Wilde’s two half-sisters also died of burns after they went too close to an open fire in ball gowns.

• Stiff collars

Invented in the 19th Century, the detachable collar meant men didn’t have to change their shirt every day.
It was also starched to a stiffness that proved lethal.

They were called ‘father killer’, or ‘Vatermörder’ in German.
They could cut off the blood supply to the carotid artery.
Edwardian men would wear them as a fashion accessory – they’d go to their gentleman’s club, have a few glasses of port and nod off in a winged armchair, with their heads tilted forward.
They actually suffocated.”

• Corsets

Summer Streves, author of Fashionably Fatal, says that “corsets caused indigestion, constipation, frequent fainting from difficulty in breathing and even internal bleeding… inhibited breathing, giving rise to the Victorian ‘heaving bosom’, was indicative of pressure upon the lungs, while the other internal organs, forced to shift from their natural position to accommodate the new skeletal shape, were subject to damage.”

In 1874, a list was published attributing 97 diseases to corset wearing, including heightened hysteria and melancholy; between the late 1860s and the early 1890s, Streves says, the medical journal The Lancet published at least an article a year on the medical dangers of tight lacing. And it didn’t end with breathing difficulties or organ damage: in 1903, 42-year-old mother-of-six Mary Halliday died abruptly after a seizure.

The New York Times reported thatduring her autopsy, “two pieces of corset steel were found in her heart, their total length being eight and three-quarter inches. Where they rubbed together the ends were worn to a razor edge by the movement of her body.”

• Killer Heels

Killer heels are known to cause multiple health implications.
These include knee osteoarthritis, callouses, ankle sprain, ingrown toenails, shortened Achilles tendon, risk of falling and lower back pain.

Also, according to the author of Fashionably Fatal, Summer Streves, “in earlier centuries, ladies of fashion were known to have had their ‘little’ toes amputated, slipping their feet into ever-more-pointed fashionable footwear”.

She argues that while historic practices might sound barbaric, women today are still enduring pain for fashion, referencing “the contemporary vogue for the surgical shortening, even amputation of healthy toes, in order to fit into today's sky-high stilettos”.

There are still plenty of fashion victims in the 21st Century. “Although we haven’t got corsets or crinolines any more, there are now people having their ribs removed to get a smaller waist.”

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Genea:
Well afta all dis,we wud still continue wearing dem
nice post op....dis shud b on fp
cc lalasticlala

When it comes to fashion, people are more concerned about their looks than their health

You're right.

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