33 Weirdest Fashion Trends in History

"Venetian chopines lifted their wearers up to half a metre off the ground and required a servant on each arm. Eighteenth-century dentures were routinely built from teeth pulled out of the dead, and there was a supply chain behind it. This episode works through clothing that people wore knowing precisely what it cost them. In this episode: - Venetian chopines, platform shoes that needed two attendants to cross a room - The towering French hairstyles of the 1770s, built over wire frames and decorated as ships - Dentures assembled from the teeth of corpses and sold as the premium option - The hobble skirt, cut so narrow that a normal stride was impossible - The crinoline's steel cage, engineered to hold a skirt several feet clear of the body Fashion history is a record of what people would trade for status, and the bill was almost always settled by the body wearing the outfit."