But in the early 1800s, a device called the physiognotrace democratized portraiture, making it possible for everyday people to have their images captured in silhouettes. A man named William Bache ...

Silhouettes were inexpensive ... beauty products and even medicine. The toxic volume went into storage. Conservation analysis in 2008 revealed the album was laced with arsenic.

“Toxic masculinity, in fact ... with shrunken knitwear and glamazon flares giving Michele’s models sinuous silhouettes that were more Aubrey Beardsley than Captain America.