The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know
HistoryExtra podcast
00:00
The Mouse Fur Fague Eyebrows in the Eighteenth Century
A nice, curved eyebrow was in vogue in the eighteenth century. Fake brows were on sale and could be used to colour your eyebrows. There are satirical poems that reference women using a mouse fur as fake eyebrows. But there's no other evidence of it. So i'm really thinking it never happened? I mean, you can't a hundred per centdidn't say that. Nobody ever did it."
Play episode from 32:42
Transcript
