stackyFACTSIf you wanted your giant wig to smell passably clean, the government needed its cut. In 1795, an act was passed requiring anyone using hair powder to pay a guinea for a certificate. This entirely petty cash grab successfully killed the powdered wig trend overnight, because even aristocrats hate hidden fees.
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In a stroke of bureaucratic sadism, a French tax official in 1954 conjured up the Value Added Tax. Instead of taxing just the final sale, this masterpiece of…
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The universal sign of absolute leisure was wearing cuffs so excessively long they aggressively dragged through the mud everywhere you walked.
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Despite the incredibly misleading name, genuine Panama hats have always historically originated from Ecuador. The entire naming convention is a geographical…
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To visually assert peak dominance, aristocrats wore giant, jeweled attachments over their groins that occasionally doubled as extremely awkward coin purses.
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Eighteenth-century hairstyles grew so absurdly large and coated in flammable grease that leaning too close to a chandelier routinely ended in dramatic,…
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Forget the idea that corsetry was strictly female. Dandy gentlemen of the 18th and 19th centuries strapped themselves into heavily reinforced undergarments…
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