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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy gets it; on BlueSky there were far too many people being all "but they were dirty tho" when they're really just mixing it up with Late Renaissance / Early Industrial. London was practically unlivable!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

At least into the early modern period they restored the understanding that cleanliness was good, just had a harder time achieving it XD