{"id":6997,"date":"2017-10-20T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/20\/carolyn-day-explores-one-of-the-strangest-fashion-trends-in-history\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:59:08","slug":"carolyn-day-explores-one-of-the-strangest-fashion-trends-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/carolyn-day-explores-one-of-the-strangest-fashion-trends-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Day explores one of the strangest fashion trends in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While pursuing her postgraduate history degree, Furman History professor Carolyn A. Day kept finding references to tuberculosis as \u201can easy and beautiful way to die,\u201d which didn&#8217;t line up with her understanding of the disease from a medical perspective. Day talks about the disease&#8217;s odd relationship between fashion and beauty with the <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2017\/10\/19\/historian-carolyn-day-explores-one-strangest-fashion-trends-history\/\"><strong><em>Greenville Journal&#8217;s <\/em><\/strong><\/a>Sara Pearce who kindly plugs Day&#8217;s talk and book signing event at M. Judson Booksellers set for Monday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. Day&#8217;s book, <em>Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease<\/em> was published this month by Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While pursuing her postgraduate history degree, Furman History professor Carolyn A. Day kept finding references to tuberculosis as \u201can easy and beautiful way to die,\u201d which didn&#8217;t line up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}