- 21. This Nude Model Raised $1M for Australian Fire Relief, But Not Before IG Deleted Her Account
- (Feminism)
- The last thing one might expect to hear in connection with the devastating wildfires wreaking havoc across the Australian continent is sex work. But such is the way of the wild wild web, this week’s ...
- Created on 08 January 2020
- 22. How To Channel Jo March's Look This Winte
- (Style)
- ... edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST Ashley Jayne Meyers On Her '60s-Meets-Victorian Style You'll Go Nuts Over These Pretty Pistachio-Colored Products Channel Your Inner Cher ...
- Created on 20 December 2019
- 23. Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
- (Arts)
- Lindsay Dye is a multimedia artist, performer, and cam girl who studied photography at the Pratt Institute. It was there, Dye says, that she first discovered a budding interest in camming and cam culture. ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 24. This Professor Created A Lifesaving Drug — And She's Donating All Her Profit
- (Living)
- ... buzz I get from finding something out.” Top photo via Unsplash / Drew Hays More from BUST This Dutch Doctor Isn't Backing Down From The FDA About Mailing Abortion Pills BadRx: How Victorians Survived ...
- Created on 04 December 2019
- 25. How A Proper Introduction Could Make Or Break A Reputation In Victorian Society
- (Living)
- Today, introducing one stranger to another at a social or business gathering is simply polite behavior. But in the Victorian era, an introduction was a thing of infinite value. It was a voucher. A guarantee ...
- Created on 30 October 2019
- 26. How Overzealous Research Landed A Cross-Dressing Victorian Writer In Jail
- (Feminism)
- ... author doing research? It appears that he may have been. Luke Limner was, in fact, the pen name of John Leighton, a Victorian artist and book cover designer who, in 1891, would have been 69-years-old. ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 27. These Victorian Blues Were Guaranteed To Brighten Up Any 19th Century Room
- (Style)
- ... some of the loveliest examples of the color blue in Victorian fashion. *Please note: Deep blues were generally achieved with aniline dye. Invented in 1856, aniline dye produced a wider range of color ...
- Created on 02 October 2019
- 28. This 19th Century Empress's Beauty Routine Was Simply Too Muc
- (Feminism)
- Born in Munich on December 24, 1837, Her Royal Highness Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie became Empress of Austria when she married Emperor Franz Joseph at the age of sixteen. Though now widely acknowledged ...
- Created on 25 September 2019
- 29. Before Flash Or Ring Lights Existed These 19th Century Ladies Swore By This Lighting
- (Living)
- The gas-lit ballrooms of the mid- to late nineteenth century weren’t as flattering to some colors as they were to others. For example, the 1897 edition of Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms ...
- Created on 10 September 2019
- 30. Week Of Women: August 30 - September 5, 2019
- (Entertainment)
- ... series tackles xenophobia, religion, immigration, and more in a surreal, Victorian world. Streaming August 30 on Amazon Prime, and make sure to read our coverage on the series from San Diego Comic-Con. ...
- Created on 29 August 2019
- 31. Find Out What 19th Century Gentlemen Think Of Single Women (And Girls) At All Ages With This Spinster Numeration Table
- (Living)
- Recently, while researching, I came across a “Spinster’s Numeration Table” printed in the 1837 edition of the New Monthly Magazine. This table lists out the various ages of an unmarried woman and ...
- Created on 28 August 2019
- 32. Real-Life Issues Meet Fantasy Worlds On "Carnival Row
- (TV)
- ... and with relevance to what is happening in the world today.” The show is inspired by William Shakespeare, today’s headlines, and folkloric mythology, and it’s costumed in a Victorian fantasy world. Carnival ...
- Created on 23 August 2019
- 33. How 19th Century Sex Workers Were Blamed For Ruining Lives By Trying To Survive
- (Feminism)
- ... header photo: Lady Hamilton as Bacchante by George Romney, 1784. This article originally appeared on MiMiMatthews.com and is reprinted here with permission. More from BUST How Victorians ...
- Created on 21 August 2019
- 34. How The Once Enslaved "Stagecoach Mary" Became The Gun-Toting First Black Woman Mail Carrie
- (Feminism)
- ... sexual abuse, and other ills. But having an outspoken Black woman around with the potential to negatively influence the Native American girls they were trying to assimilate into Victorian whiteness was ...
- Created on 19 August 2019
- 35. Awkwafina On "The Farewell," Mainstream Asian American Visibility, The Real Nora Lum, And Her Well-Trained Cat: BUST Intervie
- (Entertainment)
- ... blocks away from the Charmed set, Awkwafina and I chat on the top level of a Victorian dwelling with a view of downtown Los Angeles as our backdrop. Born Nora Lum, Awkwafina wears a black leather jacket, ...
- Created on 10 August 2019
- 36. Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
- (Living)
- ... was so popular that “banting” became Victorian slang for dieting. Image from Wellcome Collection It’s also in the Victorian era that we start to see a real rise of diets being sold as a necessity to ...
- Created on 08 August 2019
- 37. How Victorian Women Kept it Modest While Taking A Dip In Bathing Machines
- (Living)
- During the Victorian era, ladies visiting the public beach couldn’t simply wade out into the water and enjoy an invigorating swim. To protect their modesty, most ladies on a seaside holiday utilized ...
- Created on 06 August 2019
- 38. These 3 Victorian DIY Skincare Products Were Packed With Fruit
- (Living)
- Victorian women didn’t have our knowledge of ultraviolet rays and SPF, but like us, they had a healthy respect for the damage that too much sun could wreak on their complexions. A fair, unblemished ...
- Created on 31 July 2019
- 39. How Victorians Took To The Beach
- (Living)
- ... sun. Much as in the preceding decades, the silhouette of seaside dresses in the early Victorian era stayed relatively close to that of walking dresses. It was not until the 1860s that a definitive “seaside ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 40. More Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- Like many lovers of historical fiction, last Sunday night, I tuned in to the Masterpiece Theater premiere of Wolf Hall. In scope and scale, I was not disappointed. The sets were magnificent. The costumes ...
- Created on 17 July 2019
