DID YOU KNOW?

False beauty marks have been used since ancient Roman times and became a fashion trend in the 16th and 17th Century.

The beauty marks could be made of black taffeta, velvet, silk or thin leather, and were attached to your face with glue made from the sap of trees. The marks developed from little circles to intricate shapes like ships, horse-drawn carriages or flying birds.They were used in order to hide smallpox scars, which were fairly common back then, but also as a means of secret communication

Both men and women in the 18th century held their hairstyles in place with large amounts of hair pomade made from beef fat and then covered it with powder, usually made from wheat or rice flour.

As bathing was considered dangerous and hair styles were too excessive to be washed, parasites like lice often took up residence in people's hair. While wealthy men could just take off their wigs and kill parasites by baking them in the oven, women with their lavish hairdos had no such easy counter-measures available. Thus, long-handled silver claws, designed to scratch the itches, were often laid out with the silverware for guests to use at fancy dinner parties. Bon Appetit!

Sorry to disappoint you. The turban, as well as the fur coat, fall under the french expression "cache-misère," or "hide the misery." Women would hide behind turbans because of a lack of hygienic supplies and fancy clothing. The post WWII era was marked by poverty, thus soap and make-up were scarce. What the turban really hid what was probably smelly, dirty strands of hair.