Japan's black teeth fashion does make a lot of sense if one considers people in the old days didn't have good dental care. Blackening all the teeth hid which ones were discolored, yellow or missing. Hence the teeth looked uniform, which is prettier than a miss match of good and bad teeth. 😁
That and the White make up makes your teeth look yellow by compare. My godmother is Japanese and she said they use a blue powder to get the yellow out but sometimes if you use too much you get blue teeth 😂
The blue powder makes sense considering today's trend regarding blondes, real or not, using purple hair products to balance out the brassy orange tones our hair sometimes gets from minerals in water and pollution in the air. It works!!! I know from experience that some products can work to well,. Take my advice, follow the directions. I ended up with white, lavender,streaked golden blond hair after leaving a purple hair mask on longer than it said to. It was not near as attractive as it sounds. I didn't even apply it evenly to start with. It was like the hair version of a self tanner disaster but more expensive. Lol. 😂 Live and learn and then share a laugh along with the wisdom gained
It’s actually believed that this practice had a practical effect on dental health as well as it being a social practice. It basically created a lacquered barrier on the teeth preventing decay.
I think the worst one was the Chinese foot binding. 😕 That's just horrific. Those poor women couldn't even walk. What a painful process that must've been.
And sadly, the last generation had it the worst….they still had to go thru the painful process, as a child no less, then tastes changed and they were expected to do their part and be strong workers for Mao/the cultural revolution, where having bound feet was considered decadent and anti-communist.
I’m certain I heard that the notch created by binding was used by males for sexual pleasure. What would the adults who broke the little girl’s bones and bound their feet say was the reason they were torturing her?? 😢 A female would live in agony so her future husband could get off…and then later there was a ban on girl babies and I wonder if it’s true that they were gotten rid of in soup..like dogs and cats…
As a heavily pierced person myself I can't imagine doing it before proper sterlization techniques and antibiotics in case something goes wrong. Imagine dying of sepsis because your nipple ring got infected 🤢🤢🤢
This is exactly what I was thinking, especially since I have a suppressed immune system. I carry betadyne in my friggin purse and have a full emergency trauma kit in my car. 😂
Nah, the body is really good at getting rid of bacteria when it's on a superficial layer. Sepsis wouldn't have happened too often. Just because atbs weren't a thing yet doesn't mean there wasn't topical antibacterial medicines used. There were many! Yall would have been fine...probably
@@kittenface8577 My Mom used to sterilize a safety pin with fire before using it for splinters. She was a Nurse Practitioner. Now I do it. You don't always have alcohol around! Well, not 100 proof anyways.
Looks like comfort was never a beauty trend, but this does explain some odd historical photos/paintings…like it never occurred to me that the women without eyelashes were pulling them out or the ones with giant foreheads were shaving/ pulling their hair out, I thought it was all in artistic style or bad hair care 😂 thanks for educating us all!
I remember the thin eyebrows trend in the 2000s. I remember feeling so ugly, questioning why I was "cursed" with thick eyebrows, and would pluck and shave them. Thank God we're past that era. Seeing my early teen photos is beyond cringe😅
I could never understand why skinny brows were a thing, even back then. I always thought women looked so trashy with brows like that 💀 Something I've noticed about historical fashion trends is that anything that strays too far from natural beauty never truly stays beautiful. It's always good to appreciate the beauty you have now ❤
Yea you would think this channel would actually do some research on corset because there are plenty of videos and articles on how they are pretty much custom bra that added back support and garment support. And tight lacing was considered stupid by most people for the Victorian and Edwardian era for obvious reason. And they are quite comfortable.
Tiny waistlines were mostly achieved by wider, puffy skirts and sleeves, and padding shoulders. Hint -Bernadette Banner did a whole lot of debunking corset myths.
@@basm620inbelair9i can only imagine the reaction to seeing a mans CALVES during that time like, "i say, Mary look at those Calves! Arent they MAGNIFICENT"😂
As a kid my mom had vintage magazines that gave tutorials in leg painting and using a ruler to get the seams in the back straight to keep up the appearance of wearing actual stockings.
My Nan actually lived in that time and did that. Depression era was so poor you had to paint on your hose with gravy! Fucking packaged, jarred, or canned gravy. That you put on food! Now adays we could use like bronzer, tanner, makeup, etc....they didn't even have that!
I worked in a female prison several years ago and some of the women actually mixed instant coffee with lotion to make foundation for their faces. Very few got it mixed right, most apparently put too much coffee in it and walked around with very dark faces lol.
Despite the Prince Albert piercing being named after Prince Albert, he did not wear one. What he (and many other men in Victorian polite society) did wear was a 'dressing ring', a popular functional accessory which pushed one's member to one side of the leg so that a bulge did not appear when wearing fitted trousers, giving a more polite silhouette. The Prince Albert piercing was invented by a piercing parlour in the 1970s, and the myth that Prince Albert wore a piercing on his penis was started by this very same parlour in a pamphlet which falsely claimed (for marketing purposes and the sake of gimmick) that his dressing ring was a type of piercing.
That’s such a rumor that Victorian corsets were uncomfortable. They were the version of bras for their time and were custom made to the wearer’s measurements. They were designed to support the weight of all the layers of clothes that went on top. They were by no means meant to be laced to the point a woman struggled to breathe.
Are you suggesting that bras are comfortable? They're called Booby Traps for a reason. LET THEM BE FREEEE (I'm biased because I'm flat as a little boy, so mine don't have minds of their own or hurt my back, but that's not the point.)
@@Nylak-OtterIf a bra is uncomfortable or even hurts it usually means it doesn’t fit (or is worn wrong). Yes, you can wear a bra wrong; mainly through wearing it to tight (around the chest) or shortening the straps to much. Same with corsets, they are mostly there to help you and should be comfortable while doing that; but if they do not fit or are used wrong, they will be uncomfortable or hurt.
@@TCGrey I'm not even an A cup. I wear a sport's bra/training bra for middle schoolers for legal reasons at best; anything else is like duct taping wadded up socks to my chest, and about just as comfortable. So, literally impossible to tighten or loosen.
@@Nylak-Otter When I was underweight I VASTLY underestimated the care that went into larger breasts. Now I am overweight and… well. I am grateful for well-fitting bras. I really am.
I’m a little sad you didn’t mention the REASON strong calves were considered beautiful!! They were a sign that you were an experienced horse rider and a great dancer. Strong calves became especially popular when ballet came into fashion.
In the 1940's, not only would women color their legs to imitate nylons, but they would also draw a line up the back of the leg in imitation of the seam that appeared when nylons were made back then.
Pretty sure it was because nylons were being used for World War II and stockings were hard to come by. I've seen enough World War II cartoons to know about rationing and shortages they had back then. Not everything, but a good amount.
I knew about all of these except the Victorian body piercings. It would’ve made history lessons a lot more interesting if they had got a mention! The Schleswig Holstein Question or Victorian body piercing? Hmm… tough choice!
Same. I all this time just thought it was called Prince Albert to take the piss out of him for being a bad royal....now it turns out he DID have it and it's too funny because Queen Victoria was a hard-core prude.
@@PandaMonium92827Albert was never a bad royal. He's one of the Best, in fact 😊😊 Victoria is known for being a prude, but you need to read her diary 😂😂 she lusted after her husband like no other 😂😂😂she was actually really a freak in the sheets 🙊
well plastic surgery was actually first for soldiers who got injured in the face and chest during wars, not really when we went from sewing a guys face back together to pumping up boobies or put rubber cement in lips
My 28 year old daughter Blames BRATZ DOLLS for lip filler Also...she never wanted piercings and tattoos, since she always changed her look I told her, GET INKBOX🤣
Re: WW2 nylon shortage. The video reminded me of when my grandmother told me she and her friends would use eyeliner to draw lines down the backs of their legs to mimic stocking seams.
@@beautyonabarnbudgetthey did it just wasn’t like ours it was more like Vaseline and soot you just line your eyes with, although to everyone but you it was obvious the original comment was implying that they were using an unofficial form of eyeliner the same way people always did before it was patented.
It's also funny how we talk about crazy trends back then and consider it weird, yet now people are filing down healthy teeth to have fake ones, and fill their butts although serious plastic surgeons advise against it.. and a few years ago a big butt was a "bad" thing, same people are now doing these risky procedures. (disclaimer: I don't say big butts are bad, just how quickly things change and how desperate people are to follow the fashion)
I remember in a gore site it had a video of a women who got bad butt implants and half her skin was missing don’t remember if it had rotted in it’s own or they tried to fix it with surgery but failed. It stated she died a couple days after. Also the new trend is to get freckles tattooed and a couple of months before was to get your teeth sharpened but haven’t seen that many people.
Agreed..I have never had an interest in piercing or tattooing, but I’m not bothered by people who partake… some tats are very nice, but I find pierced genitals very unattractive or even repulsive I suppose, as I’ve only seen a few.. My friend with an extremely small butt is so envious of women with large muscular ones. A relative with a muscular physique is envied and she has fun flaunting it…
My great grandma / tipo was born in China in 1926 to a well of family. She was abandoned because her feet were “too big to bind”. For this, her family abandoned her and she went years being a servant to foreign families. This is how she met my ti gong/ great grandpa. He was a bellhop boy at the hotel the family she was serving was staying at. I don’t know much since by the time I was born she wasnt very conversational. My ti gong died the same year I was born so I never knew him. My ti po was very talented, picking up languages from her time serving people. She died this year after 97 years of life. BUT ANYWAYS I personally think that nipple piercings on guys are HUBBA HUBBA 😻😻😻
the information about the s bend corset and the victorian corsets are incorrect. the s bend was aided by means of padding around the waist, rear and bust to help give the allusion of the shape. the clothing was sewn to aid in this. the shape of the body was not actually changed. as far as "tight lacing" in the victorian times, that was something that was done for a short period by a portion of the population. again, padding was used to make the bust and hips look larger so that the waist would look smaller. the corsets were made to fit the wearer at a comfortable lacing size. it had hooks on it to help hold up all the layers of pettitcoats and was there also to make the garments lay flat and in the style of the time. even some men wore corsets in victorian times, but a different shape. before corrsets, women wore stays or bodies. women at all levels of society wore both corsets and stays. imagine trying to do the daily chores of a house maid in a tight laced corset. they were no more uncomfortable than today's bras. if you get the right size and shape for your body, they are fine. if they don't fit right, they are uncomfortable. how many womany are happy to take their bra off as soon as they get home?
Agree - just like many people today wearing the wrong bra size or ill-fitting types for their bodies find them uncomfortable, the same can be said of corsets back then. There are no doubt people who experienced both, but for the most part corsets just have a way worse reputation than they deserve.
Apparently "the Prince Albert" was never really a part of the actual Prince Albert. It's most likely that it got that name because it's known that he and Queen Victoria were really into erotica (nine kids IIRC), and it was during this period when the piercing became popular. It was a nickname. At least that's what I read. I had believed that he had one, but the source I got the info from (a royal historian) said it was a myth.
Let this video be a reminder to anyone feeling down about how they look. Fashion is fleeting. Do yourself a favor and put that effort into loving yourself ❤️
This is very sweet to read and it's so true! My "fashion" has always been to be comfortable. I wear professional clothes at work but comfort comes first.
Exactly. And thinner too when back then being thicker was considered beautiful. I like to think of myself as the beauty ideal in previous centuries, it seems a lot of eloquent 😂
The fact that people are willing to risk early skin cancer is beyond me. I'm quite pale and I'm okay with it. I'd rather look like a ghost than a leather handbag 😂 People who are naturally darker look so much better with color because it's something they were actually born with, not something they have to cheat by roasting in a tanning bed...
@@nomoretwitterhandles personally, I like a pale woman. I don’t see where a tan makes them look healthy? I guess I’m not like most men? But I like a ghostly pale woman. I dated a woman in my late 30’s, she was always suntanning, going to a tanning bed! I stayed on her about it, told her I didn’t like tan. But she insisted it’s when she could relax, or some dumb excuse. Now she’s 50 and looks bad, she has given up on her looks because of it.
And this says it all about how seriously should we take our culture's current "beauty standards". It's all arbitrary, none of this is real, natural or compulsory, none of this holds any actual importance. So just love yourself, style yourself any way you like, save tons of money and skip all that social pressure.
@5:44 I will never forget about the Weird History video "The History of Foot Binding," that burnt to my brain immediately after watching! Highly recommend watching the video!
Growing up, I was told to be sure and change my baby younger brother and cousins position every few hours while babysitting so their heads would be round and not flat on one side or the other.
Probably my favorite one so far. You deliver, what we all assume to be historically accurate facts, with a humor that shoots right to the core of me. Thank you for the work you put in on these videos!
I didn't see any illustrations of an S-bend corset. They're distinctive (and hard on the back.) When you look at the woman sideways, an S-bend makes her bust (and the bust wasn't always covered by the corset at this period) and bottom prominent. These were popular in the early 1900s. And where did the information on piercing come from? I've studied historic costume for decades and NEVER heard this. Now, there were probably things done in Storeyville (New Orleans) and among the courtesans and possibly even certain avant-garde elite, but that doesn't mean it was a widespread fad (unless there's documented proof of this somehow.) Maybe there is. I know one thing: can you imagine wearing piercings with a whale-bone or steel-boned corset? That would NOT be fun. Plus, imagine the risk of infection, and these people didn't have antibiotics. Again, there may be solid scholarly evidence for this, but it reminds me of the sensationalism surrounding post-mortem photos. YES, there were post-mortem photos (I have some), but there's also a lot nonsense about them on the internet. People will sometimes hear a story and misunderstand, embellish, or repeat it without ever really doing any research.
Plus the S shape was more achieved with bust and butt padding and lobster tail snapped crinoline then the actual corset. Also the moving of organs and tight lacing is actually lies and propaganda from men during when women wanted to vote. And one of the few industries that was most controlled by women were corset. So the target corset in news paper making things up so corset industry would be destroyed cause lots of women to loss their jobs. Weird how they didn’t even do 5 mins of research and they would have found this.
Feet binding started at infancy. You'd be unable to achieve the desired effect now. I know you were joking but I did want to clarify in case you or anyone else didn't know lol. Wild stuff!
Ehh, beauty patches are more of an e-girl or e-boy trend at the moment. I have never actually seen someone wearing beauty patches except for the people I've mentioned. (This is not taking into account the people who wear artsy makeup as a standalone thing, nor is this counting alternative fashion scenes like goths or punks. Granted, e-girls/boys may count as this subcategory, but from what you've said I think that's the people you're referring to, and they are not the average person, thus it is not trendy nor in style.)
Prince Albert’s rumored piercing was for functionality as well as pleasure.The piercing was so he could attach it to a loop on the inside of his pants to pull his member to one side for a more seemly silhouette in the tight pants. (Allegedly)
the lotus feet, or feet binding as you call it actually had the purpose of avoiding the wife to escape since the marriages were always for convinience & money and things like that
@6:40 Terminator 2: Judgement Day is such a great film! For a while, it was my favorite film. Still think of "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses (1991).
Thanks S.C.! I’m going for the black teeth and unibrow as it’s too late in life to bind my foot to the size of a thumb. Wow. Someday our crazy filler etc trends will be considered grotesque as well.
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! This time eating spaghetti with lots of oregano and parmesan cheese (inspired from the Weird History Food video "Saucy And Delicious Facts About Pasta") and seasoned corn...while watching this Weird History video!
4:31 I remember reading how beauty patches were fashionable already in 1660s London so even before the 18th century. They didn't portray them in portraits, though.
no. i will say the small foot is the worst. It's a really bloody tradition. u have to tie ur foot in the age of five or even younger. Women couldn't do any thing at this time due to this tradition.
1:43 this is the creepiest footage I've ever seen. Why do you have to always include this horrible looking stock footage when an illustration will do? Laziness?
There were no pantyhose in the 1940s. They wore stockings with garterbelts, or as the Brits called them "suspenders" (not the kind that keep a man's pants up.) Pantyhosr didn't become popular until the 1970s. You know that part in Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song" when it talks about wearing "suspenders and a bra"? Well, now you know they didn't mean something to hold up their pants.
It was the late 1960s with miniskirts They were around in the 1920s as well, but teens used to turn down their stockings like knee highs And shown knees Also, some flappers used to get nautical themes tattooed on back of thighs
It’s fun to learn about historical fashion trends, but even moreso to learn WHY they were a trend to begin with. There’s little bits of logic behind all of it. For example; strong calves meant you were probably a great horse rider and/or dancer. Especially when ballet became fashionable, so did strong legs. Henry VIII was before ballet’s prime time, though, for him it was jousting all the way.
Pmsl. Corset and painful practice don't go into the same sentence. They were a support garment. Providing support to back and breasts for carrying heavy weights of outer garments and heavy work around the house and property.
"You're not ugly, you're just living in the wrong era."
Good one 😂
True
LOL I like this😂😂
I’m using this whenever someone criticises my style
Yep
Well... it's good to know I'd be unfashionable at any point in history, I guess.
😂😂😂
At least you won't be called a fashion victim every few months.
We're nothing if not consistent! 😂
LOL
Me too 🤣
Japan's black teeth fashion does make a lot of sense if one considers people in the old days didn't have good dental care. Blackening all the teeth hid which ones were discolored, yellow or missing. Hence the teeth looked uniform, which is prettier than a miss match of good and bad teeth. 😁
That and the White make up makes your teeth look yellow by compare. My godmother is Japanese and she said they use a blue powder to get the yellow out but sometimes if you use too much you get blue teeth 😂
The blue powder makes sense considering today's trend regarding blondes, real or not, using purple hair products to balance out the brassy orange tones our hair sometimes gets from minerals in water and pollution in the air. It works!!! I know from experience that some products can work to well,. Take my advice, follow the directions. I ended up with white, lavender,streaked golden blond hair after leaving a purple hair mask on longer than it said to. It was not near as attractive as it sounds. I didn't even apply it evenly to start with. It was like the hair version of a self tanner disaster but more expensive. Lol. 😂 Live and learn and then share a laugh along with the wisdom gained
@@kacielewter7292 there is also a purple tooth whitener out recently and its extremely popular
@kacielewter7292 purple toothpaste is a thing, and it works wonders!!!
It’s actually believed that this practice had a practical effect on dental health as well as it being a social practice. It basically created a lacquered barrier on the teeth preventing decay.
I think the worst one was the Chinese foot binding. 😕 That's just horrific. Those poor women couldn't even walk. What a painful process that must've been.
That and the head shaping for babies! 😧😬😧
And sadly, the last generation had it the worst….they still had to go thru the painful process, as a child no less, then tastes changed and they were expected to do their part and be strong workers for Mao/the cultural revolution, where having bound feet was considered decadent and anti-communist.
YES and it started so early at 5 y/o 😢😭😭😭
@@shannonnuttall4560
Well, guess when the head shaping started...
I’m certain I heard that the notch created by binding was used by males for sexual pleasure. What would the adults who broke the little girl’s bones and bound their feet say was the reason they were torturing her?? 😢 A female would live in agony so her future husband could get off…and then later there was a ban on girl babies and I wonder if it’s true that they were gotten rid of in soup..like dogs and cats…
As a heavily pierced person myself I can't imagine doing it before proper sterlization techniques and antibiotics in case something goes wrong. Imagine dying of sepsis because your nipple ring got infected 🤢🤢🤢
This is exactly what I was thinking, especially since I have a suppressed immune system. I carry betadyne in my friggin purse and have a full emergency trauma kit in my car. 😂
Nah, the body is really good at getting rid of bacteria when it's on a superficial layer. Sepsis wouldn't have happened too often. Just because atbs weren't a thing yet doesn't mean there wasn't topical antibacterial medicines used. There were many! Yall would have been fine...probably
Eh,they probably had some sort of natural antibiotics they could use to disinfect.
@@kittenface8577 My Mom used to sterilize a safety pin with fire before using it for splinters. She was a Nurse Practitioner. Now I do it. You don't always have alcohol around! Well, not 100 proof anyways.
I just wanna know why piercing a man’s penis would make wearing tight pants easier 😭
Looks like comfort was never a beauty trend, but this does explain some odd historical photos/paintings…like it never occurred to me that the women without eyelashes were pulling them out or the ones with giant foreheads were shaving/ pulling their hair out, I thought it was all in artistic style or bad hair care 😂 thanks for educating us all!
right. and now if i ever feel bad about my big forehead i’ll just look at those old paintings to feel better about myself
It's absolutely fascinating how Beauty & Fashion Trends have evolved throughout history
Shut up
Yeah what happened to natural beauty? You know what they say? Only an ugly person needs makeup and fashion.
???
"Evolved" 😂
I remember the thin eyebrows trend in the 2000s. I remember feeling so ugly, questioning why I was "cursed" with thick eyebrows, and would pluck and shave them. Thank God we're past that era. Seeing my early teen photos is beyond cringe😅
I could never understand why skinny brows were a thing, even back then. I always thought women looked so trashy with brows like that 💀 Something I've noticed about historical fashion trends is that anything that strays too far from natural beauty never truly stays beautiful. It's always good to appreciate the beauty you have now ❤
@@nomoretwitterhandles I feel blessed to have them now. Specially knowing how much others spend just to have the same eyebrows that I have. 😊
Thin eyebrows were also a thing in the 70s, and the 30s.
They are on their way back. Better get to plucking. Lol. It was the late 90's btw
I never felt bad about not having thin eye brows lol its ugly now and was ugly then
Corsets weren't bad for you UNLESS you tight laced them they were just the support garment of the time, like our bras and Spanx.
Yea you would think this channel would actually do some research on corset because there are plenty of videos and articles on how they are pretty much custom bra that added back support and garment support. And tight lacing was considered stupid by most people for the Victorian and Edwardian era for obvious reason. And they are quite comfortable.
@@lunagrace2872 research? 90% of this can probably be found word for word in old buzzfeed articles *lol*
This is a common myth that I'm suprised is perpetuated on a history channel
@@johnindigo5477 Agreed you would think that a “history channel” would do real research and give the real history and not fake history.
Tiny waistlines were mostly achieved by wider, puffy skirts and sleeves, and padding shoulders. Hint -Bernadette Banner did a whole lot of debunking corset myths.
I knew most of this stuff, but the humour in this gave me several good giggles.
KFChic 😂😂😂😂
King Henry never skipping leg day 😂 😆 😝
@@basm620inbelair9i can only imagine the reaction to seeing a mans CALVES during that time like, "i say, Mary look at those Calves! Arent they MAGNIFICENT"😂
As a kid my mom had vintage magazines that gave tutorials in leg painting and using a ruler to get the seams in the back straight to keep up the appearance of wearing actual stockings.
A ruler as in the King or a rule to measure 😂
My Nan actually lived in that time and did that. Depression era was so poor you had to paint on your hose with gravy! Fucking packaged, jarred, or canned gravy. That you put on food! Now adays we could use like bronzer, tanner, makeup, etc....they didn't even have that!
I worked in a female prison several years ago and some of the women actually mixed instant coffee with lotion to make foundation for their faces. Very few got it mixed right, most apparently put too much coffee in it and walked around with very dark faces lol.
@@kellyshomemadekitchen That’s funny and sad. I wouldn’t waste my coffee though.
@@joycelle1000we say ruler in the US. Not a "rule".
Despite the Prince Albert piercing being named after Prince Albert, he did not wear one. What he (and many other men in Victorian polite society) did wear was a 'dressing ring', a popular functional accessory which pushed one's member to one side of the leg so that a bulge did not appear when wearing fitted trousers, giving a more polite silhouette. The Prince Albert piercing was invented by a piercing parlour in the 1970s, and the myth that Prince Albert wore a piercing on his penis was started by this very same parlour in a pamphlet which falsely claimed (for marketing purposes and the sake of gimmick) that his dressing ring was a type of piercing.
Thank you
I'm gonna have to remember to look up a dressing ring as you have now piqued my curiosity.
Aha! That sounds incredibly uncomfortable, especially when riding horses! Lol
eyebrows "on Greek" was a great pun, kudos to your writers
(thanks! 👀)
please explain the pun to non-native speakers
That’s such a rumor that Victorian corsets were uncomfortable. They were the version of bras for their time and were custom made to the wearer’s measurements. They were designed to support the weight of all the layers of clothes that went on top. They were by no means meant to be laced to the point a woman struggled to breathe.
Are you suggesting that bras are comfortable? They're called Booby Traps for a reason.
LET THEM BE FREEEE
(I'm biased because I'm flat as a little boy, so mine don't have minds of their own or hurt my back, but that's not the point.)
@@Nylak-OtterIf a bra is uncomfortable or even hurts it usually means it doesn’t fit (or is worn wrong). Yes, you can wear a bra wrong; mainly through wearing it to tight (around the chest) or shortening the straps to much.
Same with corsets, they are mostly there to help you and should be comfortable while doing that; but if they do not fit or are used wrong, they will be uncomfortable or hurt.
@@TCGrey I'm not even an A cup. I wear a sport's bra/training bra for middle schoolers for legal reasons at best; anything else is like duct taping wadded up socks to my chest, and about just as comfortable. So, literally impossible to tighten or loosen.
@@Nylak-Otter When I was underweight I VASTLY underestimated the care that went into larger breasts.
Now I am overweight and… well. I am grateful for well-fitting bras. I really am.
I’m a little sad you didn’t mention the REASON strong calves were considered beautiful!! They were a sign that you were an experienced horse rider and a great dancer. Strong calves became especially popular when ballet came into fashion.
In the 1940's, not only would women color their legs to imitate nylons, but they would also draw a line up the back of the leg in imitation of the seam that appeared when nylons were made back then.
Nylons had seams then
Pretty sure it was because nylons were being used for World War II and stockings were hard to come by. I've seen enough World War II cartoons to know about rationing and shortages they had back then. Not everything, but a good amount.
I knew about all of these except the Victorian body piercings. It would’ve made history lessons a lot more interesting if they had got a mention! The Schleswig Holstein Question or Victorian body piercing? Hmm… tough choice!
Beauty patches back then are basically the equivalent of StarFace pimple patches now
They covered smallpox, with them
The Victorian era beauty trends were the wildest to me
Modern beauty is pretty messed up. Fake boobs, nose, chin, cheek bones, facial piercings, botox, hair dye etc. Why can't people just be who they are.
Same. I all this time just thought it was called Prince Albert to take the piss out of him for being a bad royal....now it turns out he DID have it and it's too funny because Queen Victoria was a hard-core prude.
A hard core prude? Do you know how many children they had? The lady loved getting down and dirty!
@@PandaMonium92827Albert was never a bad royal. He's one of the Best, in fact 😊😊 Victoria is known for being a prude, but you need to read her diary 😂😂 she lusted after her husband like no other 😂😂😂she was actually really a freak in the sheets 🙊
@@TheCandiceWangtrue!!
The current "beauty" trends of botox lips, and colored lines and areas around the eyes are just as weird as the ones you showed
Eyeliner has been around since ancient Egypt.
Yes, but the colors they use now as well as combinations,, can be quite bizarre, especially in their placement.
well plastic surgery was actually first for soldiers who got injured in the face and chest during wars, not really when we went from sewing a guys face back together to pumping up boobies or put rubber cement in lips
My 28 year old daughter
Blames BRATZ DOLLS for lip filler
Also...she never wanted piercings and tattoos, since she always changed her look
I told her, GET INKBOX🤣
Re: WW2 nylon shortage. The video reminded me of when my grandmother told me she and her friends would use eyeliner to draw lines down the backs of their legs to mimic stocking seams.
Eyeliner? They didn't have Eyeliner yet. They had "hold a flame to the bottom of a plate and mix the soot with Vaseline Eyeliner. " lol
@@beautyonabarnbudgethomemade eyeliner just like the Egyptians
@@beautyonabarnbudgetthey did it just wasn’t like ours it was more like Vaseline and soot you just line your eyes with, although to everyone but you it was obvious the original comment was implying that they were using an unofficial form of eyeliner the same way people always did before it was patented.
It's also funny how we talk about crazy trends back then and consider it weird, yet now people are filing down healthy teeth to have fake ones, and fill their butts although serious plastic surgeons advise against it.. and a few years ago a big butt was a "bad" thing, same people are now doing these risky procedures.
(disclaimer: I don't say big butts are bad, just how quickly things change and how desperate people are to follow the fashion)
I remember in a gore site it had a video of a women who got bad butt implants and half her skin was missing don’t remember if it had rotted in it’s own or they tried to fix it with surgery but failed. It stated she died a couple days after. Also the new trend is to get freckles tattooed and a couple of months before was to get your teeth sharpened but haven’t seen that many people.
Agreed..I have never had an interest in piercing or tattooing, but I’m not bothered by people who partake… some tats are very nice, but I find pierced genitals very unattractive or even repulsive I suppose, as I’ve only seen a few..
My friend with an extremely small butt is so envious of women with large muscular ones. A relative with a muscular physique is envied and she has fun flaunting it…
The Vulcan brows made me laugh. You should have included some African groups in the head binding thing as it was there too.
People still Shane their babies heads. We just aren't so extreme as to use a board to do it with.
The head binding was done in the Caribbean too. I remember learning in history about the Arawaks/Tainos.
It be cool if you guys did a video of the history of common modern household items like the origins of the refrigerator, the toaster, the stove etc.😅
My great grandma / tipo was born in China in 1926 to a well of family. She was abandoned because her feet were “too big to bind”. For this, her family abandoned her and she went years being a servant to foreign families. This is how she met my ti gong/ great grandpa. He was a bellhop boy at the hotel the family she was serving was staying at. I don’t know much since by the time I was born she wasnt very conversational. My ti gong died the same year I was born so I never knew him. My ti po was very talented, picking up languages from her time serving people. She died this year after 97 years of life. BUT ANYWAYS I personally think that nipple piercings on guys are HUBBA HUBBA 😻😻😻
the information about the s bend corset and the victorian corsets are incorrect. the s bend was aided by means of padding around the waist, rear and bust to help give the allusion of the shape. the clothing was sewn to aid in this. the shape of the body was not actually changed. as far as "tight lacing" in the victorian times, that was something that was done for a short period by a portion of the population. again, padding was used to make the bust and hips look larger so that the waist would look smaller. the corsets were made to fit the wearer at a comfortable lacing size. it had hooks on it to help hold up all the layers of pettitcoats and was there also to make the garments lay flat and in the style of the time. even some men wore corsets in victorian times, but a different shape. before corrsets, women wore stays or bodies. women at all levels of society wore both corsets and stays. imagine trying to do the daily chores of a house maid in a tight laced corset. they were no more uncomfortable than today's bras. if you get the right size and shape for your body, they are fine. if they don't fit right, they are uncomfortable. how many womany are happy to take their bra off as soon as they get home?
My great-grandmother wore corsets and hated it. On her, they were uncomfortable and aggravated her GERD because the boning hit right in her stomach.
Agree - just like many people today wearing the wrong bra size or ill-fitting types for their bodies find them uncomfortable, the same can be said of corsets back then. There are no doubt people who experienced both, but for the most part corsets just have a way worse reputation than they deserve.
Those were stiff
Bras weren't..not since the 1970s
Apparently "the Prince Albert" was never really a part of the actual Prince Albert. It's most likely that it got that name because it's known that he and Queen Victoria were really into erotica (nine kids IIRC), and it was during this period when the piercing became popular. It was a nickname. At least that's what I read. I had believed that he had one, but the source I got the info from (a royal historian) said it was a myth.
Let this video be a reminder to anyone feeling down about how they look. Fashion is fleeting. Do yourself a favor and put that effort into loving yourself ❤️
I don't see a shortage of people in love with themselves.
This is very sweet to read and it's so true! My "fashion" has always been to be comfortable. I wear professional clothes at work but comfort comes first.
Let's bring back the face patches! Those look fun!
They’re actually back & going strong in our generation at the moment. ULTA has a lot
We have pimple patches!
They're back. I work in a hugh school and kids are wearing bright, small sticker patches in the shapes of stars on their faces.
@@lettylunasical4766they're probs pimple patches. It made having pimple a lil bit fun, for me atleast
Yes, people's ideal of beauty has certainly changed over the long time of human existence on this planet.
I’m gonna save this video anytime I feel ugly for not fitting into the current beauty standards ❤
It's crazy how now a days some people who are pale skined may want a tan to be darker. Wow, things have changed.
When he said women painted their legs with gravy, I thought that would a big problem from all the neighborhood dogs!
Exactly. And thinner too when back then being thicker was considered beautiful. I like to think of myself as the beauty ideal in previous centuries, it seems a lot of eloquent 😂
The fact that people are willing to risk early skin cancer is beyond me. I'm quite pale and I'm okay with it. I'd rather look like a ghost than a leather handbag 😂 People who are naturally darker look so much better with color because it's something they were actually born with, not something they have to cheat by roasting in a tanning bed...
@@nomoretwitterhandles personally, I like a pale woman. I don’t see where a tan makes them look healthy? I guess I’m not like most men? But I like a ghostly pale woman.
I dated a woman in my late 30’s, she was always suntanning, going to a tanning bed! I stayed on her about it, told her I didn’t like tan. But she insisted it’s when she could relax, or some dumb excuse. Now she’s 50 and looks bad, she has given up on her looks because of it.
@@alphagt62you would think lol
Please do a video on weird fitness practices in history ❤
The gold nail things have always had a rent free spot in my mind.
And this says it all about how seriously should we take our culture's current "beauty standards". It's all arbitrary, none of this is real, natural or compulsory, none of this holds any actual importance. So just love yourself, style yourself any way you like, save tons of money and skip all that social pressure.
I literally was clenching my feet during the foot binding part 😂
Actually skull shaping is still done. My granddaughter wore a helmet for a while when she was about one. It was to shape out the flatness on the back.
Did it work?
@lynemac2539 It probably did, it has like 90+% success rate
Look up baby helmet therapy if you're interested in learning more about the procedure
A+ video!
Fascinating topic with very unique trends!
@5:44 I will never forget about the Weird History video "The History of Foot Binding," that burnt to my brain immediately after watching!
Highly recommend watching the video!
I knew about most of these... Especially, the Chinese foot-binding. My art teacher in high school had a book on it, and it's stuck with me ever since.
Growing up, I was told to be sure and change my baby younger brother and cousins position every few hours while babysitting so their heads would be round and not flat on one side or the other.
@4:46 I can see beauty patches being used again, the right ones would really draw positive attention to a person's face.
Love this channel!!
That WAS really WEIRD! Thank you weird history!
I like when people have unibrows. It’s rare but I think it’s cool when I see it.
Men, not women
All**
@@kathleenking47you are crazy
Probably my favorite one so far. You deliver, what we all assume to be historically accurate facts, with a humor that shoots right to the core of me. Thank you for the work you put in on these videos!
I didn't see any illustrations of an S-bend corset. They're distinctive (and hard on the back.) When you look at the woman sideways, an S-bend makes her bust (and the bust wasn't always covered by the corset at this period) and bottom prominent. These were popular in the early 1900s. And where did the information on piercing come from? I've studied historic costume for decades and NEVER heard this. Now, there were probably things done in Storeyville (New Orleans) and among the courtesans and possibly even certain avant-garde elite, but that doesn't mean it was a widespread fad (unless there's documented proof of this somehow.) Maybe there is. I know one thing: can you imagine wearing piercings with a whale-bone or steel-boned corset? That would NOT be fun. Plus, imagine the risk of infection, and these people didn't have antibiotics. Again, there may be solid scholarly evidence for this, but it reminds me of the sensationalism surrounding post-mortem photos. YES, there were post-mortem photos (I have some), but there's also a lot nonsense about them on the internet. People will sometimes hear a story and misunderstand, embellish, or repeat it without ever really doing any research.
Plus the S shape was more achieved with bust and butt padding and lobster tail snapped crinoline then the actual corset. Also the moving of organs and tight lacing is actually lies and propaganda from men during when women wanted to vote. And one of the few industries that was most controlled by women were corset. So the target corset in news paper making things up so corset industry would be destroyed cause lots of women to loss their jobs. Weird how they didn’t even do 5 mins of research and they would have found this.
@11:37 I remember when we had limbo contests at 4-H camp, they would always play "Limbo Rock" by Chubby Checker (1962).
Ohhhh, please let the big forehead trend come back into fashion soon. I am more than ready! 😂
Exactly! I’m an original 5 header!😂😂😂 Sade & Rihanna gave me confidence!
Ethiopians tend to have those
I vote we bring back the full unibrow
😂
Let me guess... you've got a unibrow yourself and want to feel less awkward about it? xD
@@ivoryowlyeah no shit sherlock
Go for it
Right? I already have one naturally it's a win!
Now, this was so inspiring, I'm going to have an arsenic bath and bind my feet.
I'll blacken a few teeth. (with licorice!)
and blackening the teeth
it was a mixture of iron and ivory@@lynemac2539
Feet binding started at infancy. You'd be unable to achieve the desired effect now. I know you were joking but I did want to clarify in case you or anyone else didn't know lol. Wild stuff!
1:17 oof....piercings stuffed in a corset would HURT!
4:47 i think beauty patches are coming back in style, we just use stamps and eyeliner 😅
Ehh, beauty patches are more of an e-girl or e-boy trend at the moment. I have never actually seen someone wearing beauty patches except for the people I've mentioned. (This is not taking into account the people who wear artsy makeup as a standalone thing, nor is this counting alternative fashion scenes like goths or punks. Granted, e-girls/boys may count as this subcategory, but from what you've said I think that's the people you're referring to, and they are not the average person, thus it is not trendy nor in style.)
Prince Albert’s rumored piercing was for functionality as well as pleasure.The piercing was so he could attach it to a loop on the inside of his pants to pull his member to one side for a more seemly silhouette in the tight pants. (Allegedly)
I always enjoy a good show from Weird History! I get a kick from the (terrific) narrator’s inflections😹😻❤️💕🐈🐈⬛🐆🙏
Every post as always... superb! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
the lotus feet, or feet binding as you call it actually had the purpose of avoiding the wife to escape since the marriages were always for convinience & money and things like that
And created a certain foot fetish as well.
I'm speechless.....by the narration. I already knew all this. Best snarky repartee ever. Five *****
@6:40 Terminator 2: Judgement Day is such a great film!
For a while, it was my favorite film.
Still think of "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses (1991).
Thanks S.C.! I’m going for the black teeth and unibrow as it’s too late in life to bind my foot to the size of a thumb. Wow. Someday our crazy filler etc trends will be considered grotesque as well.
@11:05 I am going to check out that Weird History video "History Of the Corset," it's such a fascinating topic to learn more about!
0:12 Dave and Buster's is so fun!
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
This time eating spaghetti with lots of oregano and parmesan cheese (inspired from the Weird History Food video "Saucy And Delicious Facts About Pasta") and seasoned corn...while watching this Weird History video!
I call bulls**t on the Victorian piercings.
@7:59 Mila Kunis was fantastic on the film Black Swan (2010), easily one of the best films of 2010.
Strange to me is in this time how looking like you have basketballs stuck on your butt became a good thing.
I know, right? 😂😂😂
Or chest
The eyebrow drawing thing actually explains the whole "round eyebrows" in their art. And it's not so different from eyebrow pencils nowadays.
Suggestion: The Weird History Of Fashion Modeling. Why do some models look pissed off when they're walking down the cat walk?
The heels hurt.
They're hangry
I exclusively date apiarists because beauty is in the eye of the beeholder. 🤷♀️
4:31 I remember reading how beauty patches were fashionable already in 1660s London so even before the 18th century. They didn't portray them in portraits, though.
Been sporting the Prince Albert ring tied to my knee for years, I thought everyone had the same problem. My bad.
"17th century"
shows various styles from 4 different centuries before, after or around then
A fascinating topic was this.
I would do the colored eyebrows. I’ve done green at st Patrick’s day before.
The "beauty" trends we have today are the worst, strangest and absolutely disgusting, both for us girls and males.
You missed 2001-2005?
Yeah, I think foot binding and corsets are still worse.
I remember the 90s
😂
no. i will say the small foot is the worst. It's a really bloody tradition. u have to tie ur foot in the age of five or even younger. Women couldn't do any thing at this time due to this tradition.
They ought to bring back live waterfowl as headwear. Those were the days.
I'd love to see more gory stories! Like what western / cowboy life was like and stuff!
1:43 this is the creepiest footage I've ever seen. Why do you have to always include this horrible looking stock footage when an illustration will do? Laziness?
There were no pantyhose in the 1940s. They wore stockings with garterbelts, or as the Brits called them "suspenders" (not the kind that keep a man's pants up.) Pantyhosr didn't become popular until the 1970s.
You know that part in Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song" when it talks about wearing "suspenders and a bra"? Well, now you know they didn't mean something to hold up their pants.
It was the late 1960s with miniskirts
They were around in the 1920s as well, but teens used to turn down their stockings like knee highs
And shown knees
Also, some flappers used to get nautical themes tattooed on back of thighs
@@kathleenking47That sounds like the original tramp stamp to me. 😁
Bustles were really a lightweight accordian framework covered in fabric.
Safe to say the nipple piercings of the Victorian era caught me WAY off guard lmao
Things go in cycles
I can't wait, for the 1948-1963
Styles, to return
It’s fun to learn about historical fashion trends, but even moreso to learn WHY they were a trend to begin with. There’s little bits of logic behind all of it. For example; strong calves meant you were probably a great horse rider and/or dancer. Especially when ballet became fashionable, so did strong legs. Henry VIII was before ballet’s prime time, though, for him it was jousting all the way.
I think Henry was packing some royal fat in those calves. Most "large" people I know have large calves, and it has little to do with muscle.
@@merriemisfit8406 Well, both could be true. 😗
@1:58 I think that is an image of Sappho, the legendary love poetess.
"Although only breath, words which I command are immortal." Sappho
(Book Riot)
@6:49 Reminds me of some of the crystal skulls in the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (2008).
love how we still have tanning products specifically for legs (sally hansen) love that for us
I can imagine a video being made about today's beauty standards- having surgery to have bigger boobs, sharper jawline, bigger lips etc.
@3:33 That reminds me of the gum that made Francis's mouth black in Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985).
Pmsl. Corset and painful practice don't go into the same sentence.
They were a support garment. Providing support to back and breasts for carrying heavy weights of outer garments and heavy work around the house and property.
0:55 No wonder Bridgerton is so popular!
0:01 That is wild but also pretty cool.
@8:20 The Mona Lisa was actually stolen for two years, Ed Valfierno took it straight from the museum in an underwear chest.
“BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER” is all I keep thinking of!
6:55 the mad scientist looking dude from History channel's Ancient Aliens enters...
And ancient astronaut conspiracy theorists say…..
Giorgio.
Thank you
Suggestion: Disco fashion. Satin pants and jackets. Plastic jackets. Jellies. Candies. Platform shoes. Terry cloth jackets.
I always watched Weird History. I really dug the humor and intelligent of the guy narrating(impeccable timing).
Be pretty awesome to drink with him.
Thanks for this! 💅 #WeirdHistory #BeautyTrends
Id like another Decade series :)
Bring back top hats
I want to bring back the Tricorne hat.
KFChic made me laugh WAY more than it should’ve😂😂
"Could make you a formidable contender in competitive limbo". Oh my goodness that's funny. 🤣👍