Color portrait of a smiling young woman with dark hair and eyes, wearing large pearl earrings and flowers in her hair. She holds a small black face mask in her hand, partially hiding her chin and neck.
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Young Girl Holding a Mask (1745) — Wikimedia Commons

When Creepy Face Masks Were The Coolest Fashion Item

On Wednesdays we wear a visard

Giulia Montanari
Exploring History
Published in
4 min readJun 10, 2022

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Maybe you think late Victorian bustles were stuffy and unflattering, or wonder how hot and sweaty an 18th-century periwig could become on a summer day. Maybe you ponder what women in the 1870s were thinking when they decided wearing taxidermy birds on their heads was a good idea. On a more recent note, maybe you think the…

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Giulia Montanari
Exploring History

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