We have for you the 10 most interesting facts about fashion that you definitely don't know yet. Fashion experts are really experts in their field, as they will easily give you a lot of information that we, average people, often find very interesting. For example, did you know that the average American woman will spend as much as $125,000 on clothes in her lifetime? Well, we certainly didn't. Or that the average person has 7 pairs of jeans in their closet?
We have prepared for you below 10 most interesting facts about fashion, which you may not already know (but if you do, that means you're definitely a true fashion expert!).
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10 interesting facts about fashion:
- The main fashion capitals of the world are New York, London, Milan and Paris.
- The term "vintage clothing" refers to clothing that was made 20-100 years ago. "Retro dresses" are new dresses whose style should remind us of older designs.
- The first fashion magazine was published way back in 1586 in Germany.
- Bikini was named after Bikini Atoll, where the US military tested bombs. It was named so because its creator, Louis Réard, believed that the bikini would cause as much shock as a bomb.
- 10-25 percent of women in the Western world do not wear a bra, and 75-85 percent of women who do wear the wrong bra size.
- In medieval times, a person's social position was already revealed by the color of their clothing - nobles dressed in red, farmers in brown and gray, and merchants and bankers wore green.
- In Rome, the purple dress color is reserved for emperors.
- The oldest footwear in the world are sandals - they were worn as far back as seven thousand years BC!
- It used to be taboo to wear black - you could only wear it if you were mourning. Back then, for example, a widow had to wear black for two years after her husband's death.
- Eyeliner became popular after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1920.
