The horrific history and pernicious present of fashion's unfinished death toll via nparts
The press at the time described Matilda Scheurer’s death in disturbing detail. While historians have suggested that the particulars of her demise range from reliable to exaggerated, one thing is certain: She died terribly.
Sadly, Scheurer’s story is far from unique. The history of fashion is littered with gruesome deaths. In fact, Western apparel’s past is so toxic, it’s a wonder anyone survived the Victorian era, alone.
“Sometimes, with fashion, the reason people get killed is purely an accident. Your scarf gets caught on a go-kart. But sometimes there are power dynamics and people taking advantage of other people,” says McMahon. She says it’s for this reason the tale of the Radium Girls was the hardest to write. While a lot of these stories occur well into the past, there are still fashion deaths this day. The most infamous modern-day fashion disaster was the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 garment-workers.
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