(Public Domain)Thumb through a book of fashion history, and you'll see rising and falling hemlines, an assortment of gravity-defying hairdos and trousers of every description. Fashion as we know it – clothing and cosmetic trends that change from year to year – was kick-started by the Black Death. A number of other fashion trends have been rooted in disease prevention. That rosy-cheeked lookIn one of fashion history's stranger episodes, a contagious disease itself became all the rage. Ainsley and Andrew Hawthorn look at how plagues can power fashion trends in this week's Apocalypse Then.

Source: CBC News November 22, 2020 11:26 UTC