The Barber Institute is proving to be a veritable mine of possibly useless, but certainly fascinating, information. So, fresh from their Painted Lady tour I come armed with the knowledge that the masks constructed for the Venetian carnival were made deliberately with very tight bridges across the nose. Thus, not only was your face completely disguised but also your voice because all you could do was talk as if you had a very nasty head cold.
Ouch!
what an interesting bit of trivia!
Interesting, but painful!
Wow, that is taking attention to detail! Your post reminds me of the book Encyclopedia of the Exquisite by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, that my husband offered me a few years ago. I thought it was all pointless, until I realized how much fun it was to read!
I haven’t come across that, Smithereens, but I shall certainly be looking out for it.
Ouch! You’d think there’d be more comfortable forms of disguise!
I suppose you could argue that those people who were using disguise for nefarious purposes deserved everything they got.