Fashion is a controversial issue: some people blame it for some major world’s problems, while others praise it as a form of art.
In case you are interested in more fashion facts you can read part 1, part 2 and part 3. But right now we about to find out even more info about fashion!
- Boys in 1901 used to wear white dresses.
- Also, men didn’t wear underwear until the 17th century.
- Adidas didn’t create its own really famous logo.
- Little-known Finnish label Karhu was first to put three stripes on the side of a sneaker.
- Eventually, it sold the rights to Mr. Adi Dassler for around 1,600 euros and two bottles of whiskey.
- Steve Jobs’ go-to trainer was the New Balance 991.
- French cuffs are British.
- French cuffs were designed to fasten easily at the appropriate length with the excess material folded.
- According to astronaut Chris Hadfield, there’s no need to do laundry in space.
- Instead, dirty clothes are tossed outside and incinerated by the Earth’s atmosphere Cool!
- The tie collector is a grabologist.
- . The first pair of Dr. Martens boots were made from tires.
- Dr. Klaus Märten broke his ankle skiing so he created a soft-leather padded sole from tires as a more comfortable alternative to army boots.
- ‘Yoshido Kogyo Kabushikikaisha’ is a kinda weird name, that is commonly found in zips.
- “Yoshido Kogyo Kabushikikaisha ” is the biggest zip company in the world.
- Michael Jordan’s dad was killed by a man wearing a Michael Jordan T-shirt.
- Abercrombie & Fitch offered to pay Jersey Shore’s Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino to stop wearing its clothes because the sales fell.
- Romans were known for wearing penis-shaped charms and phallic necklaces.
- It was Prince Edward VII of Wales that first wore a dinner suit.
- His tailless blue silk smoking jacket was the first to be worn as eveningwear.
- It was made by Savile Row tailors Henry Poole and Co.
- Polo players invented buttoned-down shirt collars
- And polo shirts were first worn by tennis players, not polo players
- French tennis legend Jean Rene Lacoste wore short-sleeved, pique cotton shirts as they were more breathable and comfortable.
- Men’s and women’s clothes have buttons on opposite sides
- When clothes were having fasteners on the opposite side made it easier for them to button up garments.
- The Mackintosh coat was created by a Scottish chemist.
- Charles Macintosh fused two fabrics with a liquid-rubber compound together to produce the world’s first waterproof coat in 1823.
- The perforations on brogues were originally intended to let water escape.
- Gingham is of Malaysian origin.
- The name originates from the word genggang, which roughly translates to ‘separate’.
- It was a trend during the Renaissance to shave off your eyebrows.
- The “middle-class men’s suit” originated in England.
- Most suits in the early 1900s consisted of three pieces: the jacket, the trousers, and the vest.
- The vest was known as a waistcoat at the time.
- Also, during the early 1900s men used to wear morning coats.
- They used to wear them with striped trousers.
- Theis clothes used to be black.
- This changes during the 1920s, when brighter colors took over the black suits.
- By the mid-’20s, button-down shirts with detachable collars and softer fabrics became the new trend.
- Also, a huge trend of this decade was… hats!
- The earliest hat on record comes from a cave painting found in Lussac-Les-Châteaux in central France.
- It is 15,000 years old!
- George Dunnage, the inventor of the top hat, also patented a way of ventilating them.
- He designed a unique version of this famous hat featuring a top that lifted off, just like a car sunroof!
- This was designed to keep the wearer’s head cool.
- Cowboys in the American West actually wore bowler hats because they were strong and didn’t fall off easily.
- The bowler was originally designed in 1849 as a riding hat.
- It was originally designed to protect gamekeepers from hitting their heads on low-hanging branches!
- A chef’s hat traditionally has 100 pleats, which represent the 100 different ways an egg can be prepared.
- They were adopted by two of the first celebrity chefs, Marie-Antoine Carème and Auguste Escoffier er.
- They adopted this style to show who was boss in the kitchen.
- In Elizabethan England, every boy over the age of six who wasn’t a gentleman had to wear a wool cap on Sundays and holidays.
- This was to support the country’s wool trade.
- It also indicated social standing.
- In 1583, Shakespeare’s uncle, Henry, was fined 8p for refusing to wear his cap to church!
- Panama hats are actually made in Ecuador.
- They got their name from the port that many were shipped to before being distributed worldwide.
- The hats are made by weaving the leaves of the Panama hat plant, also known as the toquilla palm.
- The rarest and best quality Panama hats have a staggering 3,000 weaves per square inch and are handmade with fingers alone, not looms.
- A top-quality Panama can hold water and pass through a wedding ring when rolled up!
- In Fargo, North Dakota, USA, it’s illegal to wear a hat while dancing.
- It is also illegal wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place.
- Anyone caught throwing shapes whilst wearing headgear could be sentenced to jail.
- The “Superman” silhouette became popular during the 1930s.
- Men’s suits were fashioned to illuminate extra broad shoulders (with shoulder pads), thin waists, and tapered legs.
- Handkerchiefs have been used since the 14th century.
- They were mainly used to blow noses and dry hands.
- Boat shoes’ soles were inspired by dog paws.
- The name “sock” comes from the Latin word “soccus”, that was a kind of shoe.
- The ancient Greeks also knew the slippery footwear and wore it mainly in the theatre as a shoe replacement.
- In some remote German regions, residents still call the slipper “socks” today.
- In the 13th century, smart tailors extended socks into stockings and joined them together.
- This is how the first rudimentary trousers were made.
- The 9th of May is known as “Lost Socks Memorial Day” in Great Britain.
- The day is to honor all the lost single socks.
- So, n honor of all the lost single socks, the British put on two different socks instead of a pair on this day.
- In the U.S.A. people celebrate “National Sock Day” on 4 December.
- A mysterious marine animal is called deep-sea sock.
- One-fifth of German men – wear socks during sex.
- Also, the average German thinks you are more creative, intelligent and capable if you wear stockings in fancy colors in everyday office life
- Einstein HATED socks.
- In Denmark, on the other hand, pairs of socks play an important role in weddings.
- After the waltz, the best man cuts off the socks of the now married groom.
- About 70% of brides wear their rings on the fourth finger of their left hand.
- The tradition comes from the Roman belief that the vena amoris, or vein of love, was located there.
- Not all cultures wear wedding rings on their ring fingers.
- Some Indian traditions even require that a bride wear a toe ring instead.
- The tradition of both the bride and groom wearing wedding rings only began during WWII.
- Men began wearing rings to remember their wives back home.
- The groom’s name is the most commonly engraved phrase on a wedding ring.
- Every year, the U.S. sees seventeen tons of gold turned into wedding rings.
- It is a tradition in Romania for couples to exchange silver bands on their 25th anniversary.
- Both the man and the woman will wear the new bands in addition to the gold ones exchanged at their wedding.
- According to tradition, the marriage is doomed if the groom drops the ring during the ceremony.
- In the ancient days, doctors also believed that earrings cured headaches and improved eyesight.
- For seamen, a pierced earlobe symbolized a journey around the world or across the equator.
- It is common for the earlobes of male and female babies in India to be pierced soon after they are born.
- A 5,000-year-old body discovered in the Italian Alps revealed that men wore earrings as early as the Bronze Age.
- Sailors often wore earrings made of gold just in case they would need to pay for a Christian burial after being shipwrecked.
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