Fun fact, the heavy white face paint/“makeup”, and beauty marks of both men and women of this era in France were to cover up the rashes, pockmarks, scars and sores brought on by rampant outbreaks of Syphilis! The powdered wigs, too, covered the hair loss and lesions caused by the disease. They also wore stong perfumes to cover up the stench of open untreated syphilitic sores and skin decay! 🙃Horrifying!
Would orange face paint work? Just curious.
Certainly. Just don’t put it around your eyes or lips, for that natural look!
MmmYeeeessssssSs
Flourish the pinky!
All I can think of when I see that is Don Martin’s Mad Magazine cartoons.
Couple of puffs out for a stroll!
I thought the teeth were a shmashing shuck-shess!
Not shown: Their high heels.
I believe the period term is “Cunty Little Shoes”.
Unironically this. I would totally dress like this and dunk on the plebs.
So looking like clowns just like today?
I thought that something like 40% of all cosmetics are bought by South Korean men.
Great episode
For anyone curious, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E11 “The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell”
Back when men dressed like that they called it the end of masculinity
I mean that probably was very masculine and man-like at the time… or something.
