"All women whether of rank or professional degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that shall from after this Act impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of his majesty's subjects by the use of scents, potions, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high heels, shoes or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against withcraft and like misdemeanors, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall be null and void."
-EDICT ISSUED BY KING GEORGE III (1738-1820)