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This portrait, painted by Fergusson in 1925, is of a fashionable young woman wearing a close fitting cloche hat. In fashion terms the modern, stream-lined shape of the cloche were demanding and explained an increasing demand for eye and lip cosmetics. To achieve this, sperm whales died, usually in great pain.
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| Martyn Gorman · University of Aberdeen · Department of Zoology · © 2002 |