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In Victorian England, some people kept small birds in their hair as fashion accessories.
Fashionable ladies would wear small ornamental cages in their hairstyles containing live hummingbirds or other small birds. The birds would flutter around their heads, creating a living hair ornament. This extreme fashion trend demonstrated Victorian excess in personal adornment.
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Victorian ladies would drop handkerchiefs as a complex form of flirting.
There was an elaborate code around dropping handkerchiefs, with different methods indicating different messages to potential suitors. This...
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Medieval European courts employed professional food tasters who would dress exactly like the king.
These tasters not only tested food for poison but were required to dress identically to the king to...
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In medieval Europe, people would hire professional hermits to live in their gardens.
Wealthy estate owners would employ ornamental hermits to live in purpose-built structures on their property. These hermits were...