Fashion is such a weird thing! It changes fast, sometimes even the craziest things can become fashionable, and only real experts of it can predict what is going to be fashionable the next season. On the other hand, the borders of what is fashion and stylish and what is not are very unclear (remember Lady Gaga's meat dress?) and the history of human kind and dressing is the best example of that for sure.
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So today, let's get familiar with five crazy, but thankfully ancient fashion trends that were very popular in the old days. Some of them made people harm themselves, some of them even led to death, but all of them were very considered the most fashionable and stylish thing no matter the consequences.
It might sound like not such a big deal, but it is hard to think of the reason why women for more than 300 years choose to wear such gigantic undergarments. With the help of such hoop skirts, women tried to achieve the fashionable look of very tiny waists and enormous buttocks (which sounds awfully similar to what women try to look nowadays as well!). However, the cost of such beauty was terrible – hoop skirts were horribly heavy, which lead to damage to the tops of the hips. And let's not forget the inability to sit down, walk through a door and just be a normal and functional human being.
But the most terrifying story about hoop skirts and inconvenience it leads to happened in 1863, in Santiago, Chile when a church was getting on fire. Women who were there tried to escape the flames, but their hoop skirts blocked the exit and that led to around 3000 people's death. All thanks to this crazy and uncomfortable fashion trend.