Fashion Facts

Crazy Fashion Facts That'll Make You Say OMGAnd Fun Facts about Fashion

Crazy Fashion Facts That'll Make You Say OMG

# Interesting and Fun Facts about Fashion

Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle products, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body. Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which a person dresses.

Origins of fashion – History and fashion terms

Fashion Facts that will surprise you!

False eyelashes were first invented for producer D.W. Griffith who wanted to enhance one of his actresses’ eyes in a 1916 film. The eyelashes were made out of human hair.

Did you know that the skirt is the second oldest women’s garment in history?

Did you know that denim has it’s origins in the late 17th century, from French serge de Nîmes, denoting a kind of serge from the manufacturing town of Nîmes?

The origin of Neck Ties: They were first worn in Croatia; that’s why they were called cravats (CRO-vats) – Who would have guessed?

Clarity – finally!! An item of clothing is considered vintage designer clothes if it dates back from 1920 to 1960. Anything after this date is considered retro.

Now that’s interesting! Mary Phelps, a young New Yorker socialite used handkerchiefs to design the first rudimentary bra 1914. Women everywhere loved Mary’s new design and Ida Rosenthal eventually started designing bras with different cup sizes.

Did you know that the style of low-hanging baggy pants, worn by Hip-Hop devotees, originated in the prisons of Los Angeles, in which inmates were not allowed to wear… guess what… belts!

Buttons on Jacket Sleeves? Another interesting Fashion Fact: Apparently Napoleon Bonaparte decreed that buttons needed to be attached to jacket sleeves to stop soldiers from wiping their runny noses on their jacket sleeves. (…I just can imaging the snotty salutes he recieved…) Later this “detail” got adopted into the main stream fashion wear and lasted into our times…. Could it be true? We think so!

Did you know that a person collecting Neckties is know as a …Grabatologist and the necktie is considered to be the most popular father’s day gift around the world? There you have it!

First there were fashion dolls to model the latest fashion styles. Probably not all that handy… and so the Germans – thought of a fashion magazine at around 1586. And as you know, these magazine became quite popular over the years so “Vorsprung durch Technik”, need I say more?

The forerunners of our modern designer fragrance? In ancient Egypt, wealthy Egyptian women placed scented grease cones on top of their heads. The grease melted during the course of the day, covering their skin and clothes with an oily fragrance. * Generally designer perfumes can be divided into several categories; there are floral, fruity, earthy, crisp and musk fragrances.*

Did you know that sneakers were first produced in 1800? They had a simple rubber sole design and the name sneaker … guess what… comes from the fact that their soles are so smooth, that they hardly make a sound on the ground… *Keds was the first company to produce sneakers followed by Converse in the year 1917. The first model was the Converse All Star. Cool or not?*

The invention of the automobile had a significant influence on women’s fashion – in the 1900s, skirts became shorter to enable women to step into automobiles more easily!

Another fact hailing from Egypt is the iconic black kohl make-up. This make-up was applied not for decorative purposes, but rather to reflect the sun away from the eyes, so one could say that the first sunglasses originated in the land of the pyramids!

Bell bottoms were first worn by men in the navy, and were introduced to the fashion world by the hippies and increased in popularity, becoming a garment still associated with the 1970s, as seen worn by a skateboarding Farrah Fawcett. Today we called them ‘flared’ pants, and are a versatile clothing item which will always have a place in a woman’s wardrobe.

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