Fashion industry has a lot of secrets we don’t know. Here are just NiNe of those. Some are funny, others are simply interesting.
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 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 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.
Fact 5. 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 6. Modern women can’t live without jewelry. But it
was men who started wearing jewelry in the first place to demonstrate
their social status.
Fact 7. Short haircuts are pretty ordinary nowadays and
no one gets surprised when a girl with short hair passes him by.
Nevertheless, it hasn’t been always like this. Some time ago only
unfaithful wives used to wear short hair. The hair was cut short to mark
the stamp of infamy.
Fact 8. You might have noticed that being pregnant is
very popular in Hollywood now. (Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Kelly
Preston, Christina Applegate, etc.) However, this trend is not new
actually. In the 15th century pregnancy was so fashionable that girls
who didn’t expect babies used to put small pillows under their clothing
to create the illusion of baby-bumps.
Fact 9. Today natural bushy eye brows are in vogue,
but during the Renaissance period fashionistas used to shave their brows
off. A good example of this trend is Mona Lisa picture.
