A closer look
Victorian society in the nineteenth century developed a lethal obsession with a stunning new dye called Scheele's Green, deliberately wearing beautiful dresses completely soaked in toxic arsenic. The brilliantly vibrant color became a massive fashion staple for the wealthy elite, completely ignoring the fact that it caused severe skin lesions, respiratory failure, and agonizing death for both the garment workers and the fashionable wearers. Society women were literally shedding microscopic toxic dust all over their luxurious ballrooms, poisoning their dance partners and their families just to ensure their outfits popped in the gaslight. It vividly demonstrates that humanity's willingness to suffer horrific physical consequences in the name of looking incredibly hot is an eternal and deeply deranged biological imperative
