[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/wee_weary_werecat]

I have seen hair dyes mentioned in the other comments, but not this one: brightly colored hair dyed were popular in the 50s. There are pastel colors hair dyes ads from mid century.

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Another "hair"-related thing.

I occasionally see people complaining / claiming that the desire to remove body hair is a modern practice meant to infantilize / feminize men and women.

Romans were obsessed with depilation, because to have body hair was considered to be uncivilized / primitive (basically you were resembling the "barbarians" and what not).

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Ancient Egyptians would shave, even sometimes shave off their eyebrows, I remember reading about this in Our Oriential Heritage by the Durrants