Mind-blowing Fashion Facts- You Never Knew
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Published On: April 20, 2016
We all are in the race of being fashionable and want to be called out a MODISH PERSON. Wait!!As we are running towards being the most voguish chic or guy, we should have some idea about how these trends and styles got famous and who are the people behind all this modernism.
Just come along and see some rare facts about “THE FASHION”
Napoleon Added Buttons to end a disgusting problem
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Saw those buttons on the jackets and coats that don’t actually button up? Now let get to warrior a.k.a Napoleon. He was a French emperor and political leader had rules for lifestyle that are divine. Followed by his sound disgust about his soldiers wiping their noses with sleeves, Napoleon came up with a solution. He introduced the buttons on the jackets’ sleeves, as he got tired of his soldiers who used to wipe their runny noses on the sleeves of their jacket. That is how the button on jacket sleeves were invented, and now we love this fashion and love to have trendy and good-looking buttons for a perfect wear.
First Fashion Magazine was Vogue for Women
Women and fashion are made for each other. Do you know that the first fashion magazine was issued in 1586 in Germany, and then the trend never died.The first time Vogue magazine was published in 1892 and till now it’s the best amongst all. It’s estimated, an American women, over a lifetime, spends around $125,000 on apparel. This figure shows the women’s love for clothing and staying fashionable.
You owe Dior a thanks for…
Say thank you to Christian Dior, as he is the man who designed pencil skirt and A-line skirt. He was a French man who was inspired by the 1950s fashion and created these really hot looking pieces. Now, we have plenty of designs, colors and with bit variations in this classic style, one can enjoy the feminist appearance at work, party or anywhere. For hourglass body shape the pencil skirt is not less than a blessing, the fitted high-waist of the skirt will make sure that your tiny waist has all the attention. On the other side, the ladies who are bit heavy from the bottom can wear A-live skirt which will even help them in hiding their heavy lower body parts such as thighs and hips. So no matter what body size you belong to, this designer has done a great job for all the lovely ladies.
Cotton-Cotton everywhere
Did you know which the most used clothing material is?? It’s none other than cotton. Do you know when it became common and how?? It was the mid-1800s, when a person named Eli Whitney’s introduced GIN, a machine that smartly separated the seeds from raw cotton fibers. From that day, cotton gradually became the no 1 material for making clothes. Cotton has been used for making denim fabric for over 7,000 years. One bale which weighs less than 500 pounds can easily make 215 pairs of jeans. The five massive clothing materials people use for clothing now are linen, cotton, polyester, and rayon.
BIG fashion revolution
In US the trend of Fashion Show was started to distract people from the French Fashion. During the World War 2 the world of fashion only belonged there. Therefore, in 1943, American designers took some charge and from there an era of fashion kicked off.
GENES or JEANS
Everybody is so crazy for jeans, as they are the most comfortable thing to wear. Without jeans you can’t think of a complete wardrobe, do you knowwhere the word jeans came from?? The word “JEANS” came from the local Genoan sailors who were called “GENES,” they used to wear cotton pants. The popularity and likeness of jeans can be observed by the fact that an average American must have 7-8 pairs of blue jeans.
When Shorts become socially wearable
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Hey Girls, do you like wearing shorts?? Thank World War II for that. Because, shorts were made socially wearable for women during those times. Before that, there was no concept of women wearing them publically.
Mostly, Men owns the Fashion industry
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Surprisingly, there are more men than women at the executive level in fashion industry. Mostly the big fashion houses have men presidents and CEOs, instead of women. The man behind Allure, WWD, Vanity Fair, Lucky, and Vogue is Charles Townsend. Besides this, the list of men who run the fashion industry, we can’t forget the name of Italian designer Valentino Garavani, who became popular with his sexicious red dress collection, and was known as Valentino Red in the industry. Another most popular brand maker Ralph Lauren started his career as a “Tie designer”. And the list goes on.
Thankfully, we have children clothing line
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Children clothing is the most adorable clothing line you ever come across. Kids have their own choices of designs and colors; they easily get the style and clothing line for particular character of cartoon or any Super-Hero. But you know that in the mid-1800s, it was torture for the parents and children to dress-up in the same manner. Thank God, now there are plenty of kids’ outfit brands with the cutest clothing line, and we don’t have to go through that trauma.
Hats off to Chinese women!!
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Before 20th century, Chinese women had really small feet, that wasn’t genetic.In fact, they wanted to keep their feet small. For the purpose, girls used to wear little shoes or their feet were bind from an early age to keep them small, as in their culture small feet are sign of beauty. In order to keep up with this beauty standard, Chinese women had also faced difficulty in walking.
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