Fashion - what could be more interesting? This is not only a rapid race for everything new, it is an insight into the essence of the new while simultaneously referring to the origins, to the old traditions. There are many interesting and little-known facts about this phenomenon from different angles. We present the 10 most entertaining and important.
1. Tuxedo
This is a piece of clothing (jacket), usually black. Its name comes from the English "smoking" - smoking. In an aristocratic society, you would hardly have met smoking ladies. Therefore, smoking men, in order not to cause certain inconvenience to the female half of society, had to go out for a smoke break in a special room. To avoid the unpleasant smell of tobacco from their clothes, they put on a kind of "smoking jacket", with satin lapels. The presence of lapels is not accidental. If a smoker, during a smoke break, shook off the ashes from a cigar on his own, such a gesture was perceived by others as the height of indecency. Traditionally, a decayed column of cigarette ash was supposed to fall off on its own. In the event that ash fell on the lapel, it was easily shaken off the satin, leaving virtually no traces. A little later, enterprising ladies made this piece of clothing a part of their wardrobe.
2. Sleeves with buttons
Each of us noticed on the sleeves of jackets and jackets such a detail as buttons. The question arises: why are they needed here, what are their functions? If you look into historical sources, it turns out that for the first time buttons appeared on the sleeves during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it was on his orders that they were sewn to the sleeves of the jacket of each soldier. Believe it or not, the main goal of such an innovation was to eradicate the soldiers' habit of using their sleeves as a handkerchief when they had a cold!
3. The concepts of "vintage" and "retro"
When talking about fashion, few of us see the difference between the concepts of "retro" and "vintage". Basically, among fashion designers, it is generally accepted that a vintage thing is a thing related to the middle of the 20th century, and retro is a thing of a later period.
4. Clothes for children
When choosing clothes for our child, we all try to take into account fashion trends today. Surprisingly, children's clothing, as a separate element of fashion, appeared not so long ago, in the 19th century. Until that time, children dressed in adult clothes, but only in small sizes. This was due to the rules of decency prevailing at that time: a little girl, by her appearance, should have looked like a noble, restrained woman of smaller stature and age.
5. Panties "tanga"
For the first time this invention - panties "tanga" - was invented in New York. Back in the 30s, on the stages of this city, local dancers showed their skills to the public completely naked, which led the mayor of the city into a real frenzy. On that day, he ordered them to immediately stop this disgrace and cover up. Then this piece of clothing was invented, which to this day does not lose its popularity.
6. Fashion shows
Today, huge amounts of money are spent on numerous fashion shows. And distant ancestors - fashion designers in the 16th century tried to minimize their costs. Therefore, even to demonstrate a fresh modern collection, they did not attract fashion models! Actually, the very concepts of “model” and “fashion model” appeared much later, only in the 19th century. And all the fashionable outfits and fashionable handbags were demonstrated by the then designers ... on dolls. And, believe me, it was considered a very profitable project.
7. Bermuda or Capris
Women's Bermuda shorts or capris appeared as a fashion style in the 1930s. The reason for their appearance was the then existing ban for women in Bermuda to bare their own thighs in public. The women had no choice but to take the shorts and slightly increase their length, approximately to the knee. Similarly, Capris were born.
8. Skirt
The history of the appearance of the skirt begins in ancient times. It turns out that initially the carriers of this garment were not so much women as men. The skirt owes its appearance primarily to the then common loincloth. And its appearance as a detail of women's wardrobe dates back to the 16th century. IN ancient Rus' the skirt appeared much later - only in the 19th century. Previously, village girls wore simple-cut sundresses.
9. Cane as an element of fashion
Currently, a cane is perceived by many as a thing that is necessary exclusively for an elderly person. But in fact, this detail can originally complement the image of any person. Famous writer Voltaire collected canes, in his collection there were up to 80 types of this product. Jean Jacques Rousseau had a little less of them. At that time, the newfangled accessory literally swept over France. Both men and women used it with pleasure as an addition to their image, the more they decorated the interior design of their hallways.
10. Marie Antoinette today
In 2006, the film "Marie Antoinette" was released, in which Kirsten Dunst played the main role. Once, the actress tried on numerous dresses stylized under the reign of the Queen of France, but they all seemed too open to her. Indeed, in ordinary life, Kirsten is a rather modest woman, embarrassed once again to expose even her bare neck.
Fashion, style, design lines influence a person on a daily basis, determining both outdoor trends and inner mood. Top haute couture clothes, experimental brands are united by the talent, taste of craftsmen who help express their new self through combinations of fabrics, colors, textures, and the combination of the incompatible. What do we still not know about fashion? Some simple facts will help to look at this direction in a new way:
1. New York was the first city to host Fashion Week for the first time in history. Held in 1943, it was aimed at launching American fashion as opposed to French designers. 
2. Every year, 40 fashion weeks are held in the world, about a hundred events. The main cities that connoisseurs of beauty seek to visit are Milan, New York, the capitals of Germany, England, and France.
3. The rules of High Fashion can only be dictated by a designer who has received an opinion from the Chamber of Syndicale. It is considered the leading structure in Paris in the field of fashion. To date, 14 houses have been registered with this permit. 
4. Giorgio Armani and some others famous designers are not assessed by the Chamber of Syndicale.
5. Christian Louboutin created a line of shoes for brides with red soles. Now they can diversify their image. 
6. Christian Dior chooses the day of the show of their collections on the advice of psychics 
7. Germany became the country in which in 1586 the world's first fashion magazine was published.
8. Initially, all clothes were shown on dolls. The first models appeared only in 1853.
9. Many famous people who are not related to fashion have contributed to its development. So Napoleon, in order to prevent soldiers from wiping their noses, came up with buttons. Now they can be found on any kind of clothing. 
10. The most ancient type of clothing (after loincloths) is the skirt. It was worn by representatives of the female. male.
11. Until the 2nd century in Rome, people wore a toga, after this period only women of easy virtue wore this type of clothing, and the rest wore stolas. 
12. Before World War I, women weren't allowed to wear shorts.
13. Linen, cotton, polyester, viscose have become materials that designers use today. Cotton occupies the first place among them, since it has been sewn from it for more than 70 centuries.
14. Jeans means "cotton trousers". They were worn by Genoese sailors.
15. Jeans from Gucci went down in history as the most expensive. This fact is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Gucci Genius jeans are $3,134. 
Fashion - what could be more entertaining? This is not only a rapid race for everything new, it is an insight into the essence of the new while simultaneously referring to the origins, to the old traditions. There are many interesting and little-known facts about this phenomenon from different angles. We present the 10 most entertaining and important.
1. Tuxedo.
This is a piece of clothing (jacket), usually black. Its name comes from the English "smoking" - smoking. In an aristocratic society, you would hardly have met smoking ladies. Therefore, smoking men, in order not to cause certain inconvenience to the female half of society, had to go out for a smoke break in a special room. To avoid the unpleasant smell of tobacco from their clothes, they put on a kind of "smoking jacket", with satin lapels. The presence of lapels is not accidental. If a smoker, during a smoke break, shook off the ashes from a cigar on his own, such a gesture was perceived by others as the height of indecency. Traditionally, a decayed column of cigarette ash was supposed to fall off on its own. In the event that ash fell on the lapel, it was easily shaken off the satin, leaving virtually no traces. A little later, enterprising ladies made this piece of clothing a part of their wardrobe.
2. Sleeves with buttons.
Each of us noticed on the sleeves of jackets and jackets such a detail as buttons. The question arises: why are they needed here, what are their functions? If you look into historical sources, it turns out that for the first time buttons appeared on the sleeves during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, and it was on his orders that they were sewn to the sleeves of the jacket of each soldier. Believe it or not, the main goal of such an innovation was to eradicate the soldiers' habit of using their sleeves as a handkerchief when they had a cold!
3. The concepts of "vintage" and "retro".
Talking about, few of us see the differences between the concepts of "retro" and "vintage". Basically, among fashion designers, it is generally accepted that a vintage thing is a thing related to the middle of the 20th century, and retro is a thing of a later period.
4. Clothes for children.
Choosing clothes for your child, we all try to take into account the fashion trends of today. Surprisingly, children's clothing, as a separate element of fashion, appeared not so long ago, in the 19th century. Until that time, children dressed in adult clothes, but only in small sizes. This was due to the rules of decency prevailing at that time: a little girl, by her appearance, should have looked like a noble, restrained woman of smaller stature and age.
5. Panties\"tanga\".
For the first time this invention - "tanga" panties - was invented in New York. Back in the 30s, on the stages of this city, local dancers showed their skills to the public completely naked, which led the mayor of the city into a real frenzy. On that day, he ordered them to immediately stop this disgrace and cover up. Then this piece of clothing was invented, which to this day does not lose its popularity.
6. Fashion shows.
Today, huge amounts of money are spent on numerous fashion shows. And distant ancestors - fashion designers in the 16th century tried to minimize their costs. Therefore, even to demonstrate a fresh modern collection, they did not attract fashion models! Actually, the very concepts of \"model\" and "fashion model" appeared much later, only in the 19th century. And all the fashionable outfits and fashionable handbags were demonstrated by the then designers ... on dolls. And, believe me, it was considered a very profitable project.
7. Bermuda or Capris.
Women's Bermuda shorts or capris appeared as a fashion style in the 1930s. The reason for their appearance was the then existing ban for women in Bermuda to bare their own thighs in public. The women had no choice but to take the shorts and slightly increase their length, approximately to the knee. Similarly, Capris were born.
It starts from ancient times. It turns out that initially the carriers of this garment were not so much women as men. The skirt owes its appearance primarily to the then common loincloth. And its appearance, as a detail, dates back to the 16th century. In ancient Rus', the skirt appeared much later - only in the 19th century. Previously, village girls wore simple-cut sundresses.
9. Cane, as an element of fashion.
Currently, a cane is perceived by many as a thing that is necessary exclusively for an elderly person. But in fact, this detail can originally complement the image of any person. The famous writer Voltaire collected walking sticks; his collection included up to 80 types of this product. Jean Jacques Rousseau had a little less of them. At that time, the newfangled accessory literally swept over France. Both men and women gladly used it as an addition to their image.
10. Marie Antoinette today.
In 2006, the film "Marie Antoinette" was released, in which Kirsten Dunst played the main role. Once, the actress tried on numerous dresses stylized under the reign of the Queen of France, but they all seemed too open to her. Indeed, in ordinary life, Kirsten is a rather modest woman, embarrassed once again to expose even her bare neck.
Everyone knows that Coco Chanel invented the little black dress, but did you know that the clasp on the back of your bra is Mark Twain's invention? This is true. The man who invented Huckleberry Finn was the same guy who invented and patented the hook for "waistcoats, trousers, or other items of clothing requiring fastening." If this information took you by surprise, read on because there are ten more interesting facts about fashion that you may not know about.
1. Napoleon Bonaparte made a big contribution to fashion
Have you ever wondered why there are buttons on the sleeves of your jacket that have no practical purpose? In fact, we owe this amazingly fashionable piece of clothing to Napoleon Bonaparte. He ordered all his soldiers to wear buttons on their sleeves because he was tired of watching them wipe their noses with them.
2. Thanks to King Tut, we have eyeliner.
Eyeliner was not very popular until around the 1920s. It began to be actively used only after the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen was discovered in 1922, which caused an increased interest in Ancient Egypt. It was then that people saw the image of a young king with lined eyes.
3. Umbrellas weren't invented to keep out the rain.
Something so indispensable on any cloudy day, like an umbrella, was not invented at all to protect against rain. The oldest written mention of an umbrella dates back to the 11th century BC, and there this thing is described as a device designed to protect a person from the sun. In fact, the word umbrella itself comes from the Latin word “umbra”, which means “shadow”, “shaded”.
4. Men started wearing high heels long before women.
The high heel was not invented to make ladies look sexier; it was invented to protect men from falling from a horse. History shows that the first heels were worn by men, and this piece of footwear was designed to keep their feet in stirrups during archery, when their hands were simply occupied. High heels became the subject of women's fashion much later.
5 Levi Strauss Named Jeans In A Completely Different Way
The word "jeans" is derived from the word "Genes" used to describe sailors from Genoa (Italy) who wore blue denim trousers. However, when Levi Strauss patented his design for what we now call denim, he called it the “waist suit.” Not as cool as blue jeans, right?
6. This is how much you spend on clothes in a lifetime
If your boyfriend complains that you buy too many clothes, you have something to object to him. Just let him know that the average American woman spends $125,000 on clothes and purchases more than 3,000 individual items in her lifetime. If he continues to moan about his many expenses, you might notice to him that since 1992, the cost of clothing has been steadily declining.
7. Fashion is still controlled by men.
Even today, all the biggest fashion houses and fashion magazines are still in the hands of men. You might think that of all industries, fashion is the place where women should excel the most, but the statistics say otherwise.
8. There are only fourteen official haute couture designers in the world.
Many people think that clothes from all major fashion designers can be called "haute couture", but in fact, only fourteen designers have officially recognized the clothes of the Haute Couture Syndicate as worthy of this name. Among the fashion houses listed in this exclusive list are Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel, but it does not feature many other famous names, including Giorgio Armani.
9. Thongs were invented by the Mayor of New York
Of course, he did not quite "invent" them, because there is evidence that even a few centuries ago, thongs were worn by representatives of the tribes. South Africa. Nevertheless, it was New York Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia who caused the incredible popularity of thongs in modern world. In 1939, he required exotic dancers from New York to put on something for decency, and then they began to wear tiny panties, or thongs.
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Today we talk a lot about fashion, as well as the controversy of its canons. "The main thing is style and knowing what suits you", Nobody will argue with this truth. How different was it before, when fashion laws were so strict that fines were even levied for non-compliance ...
In the 1920s Sunglasses were incredibly popular, especially with film actors. However, they did not wear them to hide from the sun, but to protect their eyes from the bright light of spotlights. However, the fashion for sunglasses originated in ancient China, where the ladies quite rightly believed that the bright rays of the daylight contribute to the formation of wrinkles, as well as dullness of the eyes. Then they used smoked quartz glass. And in ancient Egypt, painted papyrus was used for these purposes, which was attached to the forehead and served, rather, as a visor.
The first store specializing in the sale children's clothing appeared only in the 19th century. And until the XVIII century, such a thing as children's fashion did not exist at all. The kids were dressed up according to all the canons of adult fashion, including wigs and other heavy items of clothing.
Strict British ceremonial allowed only a fan to be presented to Queen Elizabeth.
IN Ancient Rome pants for men It was allowed to wear only during battles. There were also periods when men did not perceive trousers as their clothes at all: in the 4th century in Europe, women borrowed the fashion of Persian women for trousers, while men had nothing to do with it.
Reverse history with decorations. Let's say earrings men wore as a sign of a special position in society. Moreover, at different peoples- different. Among the ancient Assyrians, only the nobility could wear earrings, and in Ancient Rome, on the contrary, slaves. In Rus', they were worn as amulets, and the gypsies and Cossacks thus showed everyone that they were the only sons and successors of the family.
By the way, about the nobility. In Europe of the XIV century, it was possible to determine the status of a nobleman by the length of his shoes. The higher they were, the higher the origin of their owner.
Before the first mannequin, fashion designers also indicated fashion shows, however, in miniature. They sewed reduced copies of outfits and showed them to potential buyers on dolls. Savings are evident.
If under Peter I in Russia a fine had to be paid to those who wore beards, then in England under Elizabeth I such a punishment was imposed on women who appeared in society without a hat. And at the end of the 18th century, wigs were taxed, as well as means for caring for them. No wonder, because at that time wigs were so expensive that only wealthy citizens could afford them. However, soon after the introduction of fines, the fashion for wigs disappeared somewhere. The government, however, did not hesitate, and introduced a new tax - on hats. Each purchased hat had to have a special stamp on the payment of such a fee. Tax evasion and stamp forgery were punished very severely, up to the death penalty.
In the 17th century, Catherine de Medici introduced the fashion for a waist of incredible size - only 33 cm, proclaiming that The waist of a woman should be equal to the girth of the neck of her beloved.
In the 15th century, it was so fashionable to be pregnant that women, even if they were not in an interesting position, tried to imitate it with the help of a special style of dress and cushions and pillows placed on the stomach. And in the XVIII century, on the contrary, the corset was so common that even pregnant women were supposed to wear it. Wasp waist was considered the standard of beauty, and ladies expecting a baby should not leave the house after the 3rd month of pregnancy.
