24. The Nose Shaping Clip
Victorian-era beauty standards were wild, and so was this invention: a metal clip you wore on your nose while sleeping. It promised to “reshape” large or crooked noses through nightly pressure. Ads claimed it would make you more beautiful “without surgery.”
All it really did was make users uncomfortable and red-nosed. Sleep was impossible, and many awoke with bizarre indentations. Yet it sold like hotcakes. Desperate Victorians believed metal pain equaled pretty faces. Today, we just call that a bad Instagram filter.
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