ODD FACTS ABOUT CLOTHING
Added on: 22nd May 2016
SOUTH KOREA USED TO HAVE REAL FASHION
POLICE WHO WOULD PATROL THE STREETS
MEASURING THE MINISKIRT LENGTH ON WOMEN.
IF SKIRTS WERE DEEMED TOO SHORT,
THEY COULD BE FINED OR ARRESTED
AFTER ITS MODERN DEBUT, THE BIKINI WAS BANNED
INITIALLY IN ITALY, SPAIN, AND AUSTRALIA, WHILE IT
WAS CONSIDERED A SIN BY THE VATICAN
THE INVENTOR OF THE MODERN BIKINI, LOUIS RÉARD,
NAMED HIS CREATION AFTER THE BIKINI ATOLL, WHERE
THE U.S. DID MOST OF ITS NUCLEAR TESTING, BECAUSE
HE HOPED IT WOULD BOMB THE MARKET AND HAVE
A HUGE IMPACT
EVEN THOUGH THERE CURRENTLY EXISTS A STRONG
CHILDREN FASHION INDUSTRY, UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY,
CHILDREN WERE DRESSED AS MINIATURE ADULTS
ACCORDING TO ICELANDIC MYTHOLOGY AND TRADITION,
IF YOU DIDN’T WEAR NEW CLOTHES ON CHRISTMAS,
THERE WAS A GIANT YULE CAT THAT WOULD EAT YOU
ARGUABLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CATWOMAN IN
HISTORY, ACTRESS JULIE NEWMAR, HOLDS THE
PATENT FOR “PANTYHOSE WITH SHAPING BAND FOR
CHEEKY DERRIERE RELIEF,” A FORERUNNER TO SPANX.
SHE WAS GRANTED THE PATENT IN 1975
BELIEVE IT OR NOT FAMOUS WRITER MARK TWAIN
INVENTED ONE OF THE FIRST BRA STRAPS. ACTUALLY
HE WAS PRETTY PROUD OF HIS INVENTION, WRITING
IN THE PATENT, "THE ADVANTAGES OF SUCH AN
ADJUSTABLE AND DETACHABLE ELASTIC STRAP
ARE SO OBVIOUS THAT THEY NEED NO EXPLANATION.”
THE WORD “JEANS” COMES FROM A KIND OF MATERIAL
THAT WAS MADE IN EUROPE. THE MATERIAL WAS
NAMED AFTER SAILORS FROM GENOA IN ITALY ALSO
KNOWN AS “GENES” WHO USED TO WEAR
CLOTHES MADE FROM IT
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