RE: VMs: Real Monks prefer (fake) blondes?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

5/27/03 10:14:50 AM, Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Don't forget that a number of contemporary lotions and potions in Northern 
>Italy circa 1480 - most notably those compiled into Caterina Sforza's 
>Experimenti, but there were supposedly many others - were for altering hair 
>colour, skin colour, or for whitening teeth, softening skin etc.

No need for lotions. Venetian ladies used to sun-bleach their hair.
They would wear a crownless hat with a very wide brim, which left
their hair exposed to the bleaching effects of the sun, 
but their faces sheltered (a tanned complexion was out, 
an alabaster one in).

I cannot remember where I read that, alas: it was at least 30 years 
ago.


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