FASHION FACTS
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FACTS
FROM
FASHION
HISTORY
BY
ADAM
CHRIST
Fact 1. Everyone has seen buttons on sleeves of jackets
but few people know that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who
introduced this idea. He ordered his tailors to sew buttons
to sleeves so that soldiers didn’t mop their running noses
using sleeves.
Fact 5. Modern tanga and thong were first made in New
York by order of mayor Fiorello Henry La Guardia. The
mayor felt outraged when saw that dancers performed
without underwear and ordered to sew tiny panties for
them to cover the nudity.
Fact 2. Kids’ fashion now is as important as women’s or
men’s one because every mother wants her child to look
beautiful and trendy. But did you know that kids’ fashion
was first started only around 200 years ago? Before that
happened children had had to wear the smaller copies of
men’s and women’s designs.
Fact 6. Hand-made items are considered very fashionable
and valuable now because these are absolutely excusive.
But up to 1850 70% of people used to make clothing for
themselves. Fashion was not important, comfort was what
mattered.
Fact 3. Up to the 19th century there were no models,
and designers had to use little dolls to demonstrate their
creations to customers. It was a good idea because
designers didn’t have to spend a lot of money for runway
shows and little fabric was necessary to make those
garments.
Fact 4. Many celebrity men wear beards now (Robert
Pattinson, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, etc.) However, if
they had lived in Russia when Peter the Great was the
tsar they would have paid a special tax for their beards.
This tax was introduced to make Russian men shave their
beards and look in a more European way.
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Fact 7. Modern women can’t live without jewelry. But it
was men who started wearing jewelry in the first plac H [[ۜ