WATCHCUT VIDEO IS the popular YouTube channel responsible for the ’100 Years of Beauty’ videos that always do so well.
Basically, they take a country and show how the beauty develops over each decade.
And today they covered Ireland and Northern Ireland with a line down the middle of the screen
It started off grand in the 1920s – although shawls were definitely still a thing south of the border
By the ’50s it had got surprisingly glam
But when they got to the 1970s, apparently the *beauty* accessories of choice in the north were berets and guns
WatchCut did make a video explaining why they chose to use paramilitary uniforms to represent the whole decade:
In the 1970s we used a look inspired by women who were fighting in the Irish Republican Army. Whether or not we were glorifying violence or terrorism by including the IRA look was a question I asked myself and I think we asked each other.
I think we would have done a disservice to the project by leaving that look out.
Still, given the fact that the look represented the whole region for the decade couldn’t be ignored by some
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