TIL about the “Mar-a-Lago face” a bold plastic surgery and fashion trend popular among American conservative and Republican circles. It’s characterized by “detectable” facial modifications, including exaggerated Botox, visible fillers, extreme tanning, fake eyelashes, dark smokey eyes, and full lips. The look is often seen as a status symbol and a way to signal political allegiance, inspired by figures in Donald Trump’s inner circle. The trend is so distinctive that it’s been described as a “visual shorthand” for wealth, power, and identity within these groups.
Ah, so lead paint and lice infested powdered wigs all over again.
Yeah, stuff like this makes me wonder if the peasants of the that time thought the rich looked ridiculous when/if they saw them…
Oh, count on it. I have a degree in history, and I have always tried to look at history through the eyes of real people.
We tend to put historical people on pedestals, but the thing to always remember is that people have been people, for as long as there have been people. You can go back to a community of literal early human cave dwellers, and you would find all of the same personality characteristics that we see today - love, hate, anger, greed, ambition, duplicity, ignorance, intolerance, kindness, jealousy, empathy, disingenuousness, criminality, avarice, perversion, corruption, courage, cowardice, etc.
So if we see those powdered wig wearing dorks as ridiculous clowns, you can absolutely count on the fact that the people of the time thought the same thing.