Fashion Trivia | 100 random facts & trivia about fashion (part 4)

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 FinnishKarhu 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.