Ladies Sailing Under False Colours
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Gender, Chemistry, Microscopy |
Discusses the fashion for red hair dye, and notes the way in which advertisers of the product reassure customers that it 'does not injure' the skin, and that 'It will deceive the sharpest eye, / And e'en the microscope defy'. | |
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