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It is difficult to imagine a person who does not know what lipstick. But few know when it appeared, what it consists of, and why ...

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Tubes lipstick was invented in 1915.
Lipstick, like many other cosmetics, it was invented in ancient Egypt. The ancient Greeks borrowed from the Egyptians, and willingly used the lipstick. However, she was no less popular than in ancient Egypt. But during the Dark Ages the use of lipstick could be a cause for incrimination women of witchcraft.
The birth of modern lipstick can be called in 1903, when the World Exhibition in Amsterdam, the novelty, intended for application to the lips, was a sensation. It was made on the basis of deer fat and are essentially so familiar to us lipstick. This means appreciated by the women visited the exhibition.



The authorship of the most popular in the world of cosmetic - lipstick in a tube - owned firm GUERLAIN (US, 1915), 20-30 years - thanks to movie stars Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, lipstick firmly established in the daily lives of every woman, no longer be the lot of the elect. In 1947, Paris is experiencing a real boom in cosmetic. From now on, the majority of women have always wears in their handbags tube of lipstick. The perfume industry is very quickly able to offer women a choice of lipstick colors. Enterprising Americans in 1949, designed the machine automatically twist the stick of lipstick in a tube. The invention came to Europe, and since then lipstick became absolute and unattainable beauty among other means favorite women of all ages.



Bra

In 1889, the French lady Ermine Kadoll rich burzhuazka, but at the same time convinced feminist, presented at the World Exhibition in Paris, his creation: two cotton cups fitted with straps, in other words, it was divided in the middle of the chest - a real revolution. But it took years to finally have been written off from the accounts of whalebone, and other instruments of torture. The first patent for the invention of the bra was issued in 1914, when a wealthy New York woman, Mary Phelps Jacob, a registered trademark of his invention called Caresse Crosby and ceded it to Warner for $ 1500: a bra without a core, through which the breasts are not translucent.



In 1917, the American military industry has prompted women to give up bras, fitted with metal parts. And it helped to save 28 thousand. Tons of metal, which allowed to build as many as two warships.
But sent to the attic as a result of emancipatory cleansing bra has entered our everyday life and in our collective imagination, gaining its rightful place among the myths and icons of the twentieth century.



Stockings

For a long time stockings were part of the male wardrobe, and only from the middle of the XIX century - female. And if the men's stockings were worn out in the open, the women did not see anyone under layers of clothing. Only sometimes they guessed in passing, a woman raised her long skirts floors at the exit of the coach. To see them in all its glory, it was necessary to wait until the 1920s.
Golden age was the period from 1850 to 1914. Although stockings and showed them richly decorated with embroidery and delicate patterns. First wore white stockings, since 1860 they began to decorate floral embroidery at the ankle.
In 1876 Féréol Dede came up with a belt for stockings, but women still continued to wear suspenders until 1930.



The First World War forces women to go to work. For the convenience of the skirt shortened, become visible leg and stockings. In the 1920s, often wear stockings with openwork pattern of black light, sometimes dark tones.
In 1922, a rich American couple Gerard and Sarah Murphy introduced the fashion of sunbathing on the French Riviera. Golden skin, previously considered bad form, is catching on. Following this trend, stockings begin to imitate skin color.
Wartime and deficiency leads to the fact that women themselves are starting to knit stockings made of wool, and in the summer on foot strip of paint, simulating the wearing stockings.



In 1958, a circular machine for the first time create a seamless stockings, which are gaining market share.
Market Stocking gaining new synthetic fiber LYCRA ®, which is in the hosiery industry are beginning to be used only in 1980. It is added to nylon to impart strength, elasticity, and transparency.

Now the market offers a huge variety of stockings and tights. Hundreds of new models appear every season.



Stilettos



The invention Heel history owes ancient Egypt, however, they were not of their pharaohs and priests, and ordinary farmers, which created the necessary focus heels make it easier to move through loose soil. In 1680 it became fashionable shoes at such a high and thin heel that ladies could walk on them, just leaning on a cane.
The French Revolution of 1789 deprived ladies high heels almost 50 years. Women's shoes Napoleonic era reminiscent of modern ballet slippers.



Only in the late 19th century high heel once again attracted the attention of fashion, but as a symbol of female attractiveness. But the name of the inventor of all your favorite stud remains a mystery until now.

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