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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Freckles (lentigo)
  • Freckle removal: a woman with freckles on her face prior to having them removed by a skin peel. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
  • Freckle removal: a woman's face following a skin peel to remove her freckles; a few remain around the eye area. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
  • Head of a woman with freckles. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • Freckle removal: a woman having a skin peel to remove freckles reclines with a metal contraption positioning her head and a breathing tube in her mouth, Hungary. Photograph by André Just, ca. 1937.
  • The face of a blonde-haired woman with freckles up close; German version in a series of AIDS prevention advertisements entitled 'Yes' by Folkhälsoinstitutet. Colour lithograph by Nina Vestlund & Co and Anti Wendel, ca. 1995.
  • Citrus Limon (Lemon)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Cormorant
  • Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
  • A laced lizard in Australia. Etching by S.T. Edwards, 1789.
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