The Crazy History of the Hair Loss Industry

Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ BOOK CLUB / NEWSLETTER https://highbrowclub.org/ https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le and Am Wyckoff edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: team.minale@iala.com ➤ SOURCES H. G. Wells's "The Man of the Year Million" by Gordon S. Haight (1958) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044429 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/01/17/hairless-close-encounters/b20a65ea-98e8-4e60-8946-70f041f4d608/ “Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair" by Anthony Synnott (1987) https://www.jstor.org/stable/590695 https://herhalfofhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/italian_florentine_school_-_portrait_of_a_lady_in_red_-_ng585_-_national_gallery.jpg Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto https://allpoetry.com/Orlando-Furioso-Canto-7 https://artwithtosca.com/on-renaissance-gentlewomen-receding-hairline/ "Eyebrows, Hairlines, and 'Hairs Less in Sight': Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe" by John Block Friedman (2019) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/medieval-clothing-and-textiles/eyebrows-hairlines-and-hairs-less-in-sight-female-depilation-in-late-medieval-europe/098B680153352A9D81BF7AE6B4148FBF https://erindaletapestrystudio.com/history-and-culture/belle-femme-beauty-transition-and-the-dawn-of-the-16th-cen