🎧 When Fashion Becomes Fatal | B1 English Listening Practice

"The makeup had lead in it, a dangerous metal."

"It's about having courage to question popular trends."

"Real beauty comes from being healthy and confident."

"They found dangerous chemicals in many clothes."

"There was one green color that every fashionable woman wanted."

"In seconds, her dress catches fire."

"It was called Paris green."

"These made their waists very small, like an hourglass shape."

"Public buildings had special fainting rooms, places where women could rest when they couldn't breathe."

"Their skin got painful sores."

"Your dress is slowly killing you. It has poison in it."

"The saying 'mad as a hatter' comes from this real sickness."

"She's wearing the most fashionable dress of that time. It's called a crinoline, a huge round skirt that looks like a bell."

"Every time we wash synthetic clothes, tiny plastic pieces go into our water."

"This fashion made so many women sick with lung diseases that doctors gave it a name, muslin disease."

"The real lesson isn't about fashion. It's about learning to think for yourself. It's about having courage to question popular trends."

"Corsets made women faint because they couldn't breathe properly."

"For hundreds of years, women wore very tight underwear called corsets."

"Men who wore these stylish tall hats slowly got mercury poison through their skin."

"This pretty color was made with arsenic."