Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends

By Brianna Malotke

Take a journey through a gruesome history of fashion.

Rib removal, poisonous dyes, sewn eyelashes...the cost to stay in fashion.

From head to toe, Brianna Malotke tells the tales of deadly fashion trends in history through beautiful poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Green Avenue Books and Publishing
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088018125

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Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends

Brianna Malotke

Green Avenue Books & Publishing LLC

Copyright © 2023 by Brianna Malotke

All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

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First Edition Printing

Print ISBN: 9781088018026

EBook ISBN: 9781088018125

From Head to Toe

Dedication

Preface

1.Containing Danbury Shakes

2.Shake Me Down Death

3.Uneasy Now

4.Madness Creeps Over the Hatter

5.No One is Mad Here

6.Crown of Pins

7.Pinned to Remember

8.Headdress Blaze

9.The Weight of Society

10.Powdered Without Regret

11.Everything Held in Place

12.Caring for My Beard

13.Those Belladonna Eyes

14.Just a Few Drops

15.Touch of Elegance

16.Dazzling Eyes

17.Escaping Tears

18.Skipping this Stitch

19.Blind to the Allure

20.Laughing Blue Eyes

21.Fashionably Useless

22.Venetian Ceruse

23.A Dash of Lead

24.Blending In

25.Head in the Clouds

26.Tie In Place

27.Collar Death

28.His Only Vice

29.Isadora’s Shawl

30.Draped in Silk and Blood

31.Alone in a Casket

32.Precious Radiant Time

33.Firefly Like Glow

34.Room Full of Ghost Girls

35.Sinful Desires

36.Laced and Sinched

37.Dire Choices

38.Hourglass Admiration

39.Penelope’s Panniers

40.Gilt Lace and Burnt Maze

41.Twirling in Tulle

42.Tickets to the Tomb

43.Charred Crinoline

44.Up in Flames

45.Seaside Social Strolls

46.Amongst the Metal

47.Welcome the Silence

48.Immaculate but Green

49.Your Dance with Death

50.Maladies in Mauve

51.Even in Death

52.All Consuming

53.Yearning for Warmth

54.Melted Dreams

55.Colorful Secret

56.Poisonous Hosiery

57.Bent Beauty

58.Teeter in Society

59.Bloody Fitting

60.Fashion Not Function

About the Author

I’m dedicating this collection to my mom, Rachel McLaughlin, as an apology for always killing the mother off in so many of my horror pieces.

Hopefully, this makes you smile.

A huge thank you to Marie and Chris for the support and constant excitement you’ve both shown me at every step of the way. What started out as a little post-it note with Write Spooky Stories scribbled on it has finally turned into a book – and I can’t imagine having done it without you guys.

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Preface

It doesn’t all lead back to devouring Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz, but my love of horror and the macabre definitely grew after reading those books in elementary school. Growing up I loved monster movies, scary stories, and everything about Halloween. Along with these interests, I also loved clothing and costumes. Which is how I ended up pursuing apparel and costume design in college.

In college, I amassed this whole assortment of fun facts from studying and researching for different projects. But it wasn’t until I took a corsetry class at the London College of Fashion that I realized just how chaotic and deadly fashion was during various time periods. While studying abroad I took advantage of the libraries and took a deep dive into researching the topics I didn’t have the time or resources for back at Purdue University.

One of my favorite things about costume design is all of the research that can go into designing pieces for a show. In my personal time, I do read a lot