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16 interesting facts about the clothes that make you look at it differently
It turns out that our ancestors wore clothes of certain colors according to their social status. And how do you that one of the most important elements of the bra was invented by a famous writer? What do you think that is common in a bikini and the atomic bomb? The website offers you a selection of facts proving that the clothing is full of surprises!
1. If in our time men do not always remember, with whom they spent the night last week, in the Victorian era, young people pinned to the hat pubic hair of their loved ones.
2. Removable collar men, popular in the Victorian era were so strict that there are cases of suffocation among gentlemen wearing an accessory - for this they were called "parricide».
3. Embroidery in the form of a crocodile Lacoste company is considered the world's first company logo. It was invented by Rene Lacoste in 1933, which then launched the production of shirts with this logo.
4. Napoleon ordered to sew brass buttons on the sleeves of uniforms soaldat, that they can not wipe their noses. A soldier, who won the battle of the battle, Napoleon bestowed expensive perfume.
5. Officially, soldiers of the Russian army began to wear socks only in 2007 - before they used footcloths - a piece of cloth wrapped around the legs.
6. To attract customers prostitutes in ancient Greece wore shoes that left when walking on sand inscription "Follow me».
7. When a student school in Michigan was suspended from school for wearing T-shirts with the logo metal band Korn, the band members have sent a box of T-shirts, the guy gave them to all my friends. Surprisingly, the police also participated in the distribution of T-shirts.
8. In Europe, white is traditionally considered the color of mourning - everything has changed thanks to the wedding of Queen Victoria, who was at the ceremony in a white dress.
9. According to the American Psychological Association, people are more willing to give money to, whose style resembles their own clothes.
10. In medieval Europe, the level of social man and his profession is determined by the color of clothing. The nobles had to wear red clothes, peasants and common people - clothes in brown and gray colors, and merchants, bankers and petty aristocracy wore green clothes.
11. Louis Rare, maker of bikini named his invention after the Bikini Islands, where the US military carried out a nuclear test. Rare hoped his swimsuit produce the same "explosion" in the society, like an atomic bomb.
12. Julie Newmar, one of the most popular actresses who played Catwoman in 1975 for the first time pantyhose with special patented elastic inserts, makes my stomach flatter. This invention can be considered a precursor Waist tights famous brand Spanx.
13. The writer Mark Twain is considered the inventor of the first fastened strap bra. Before patented his invention, he described it as follows: "The advantages of the elastic strap so obvious that it does not need explanations».
14. The word "jeans" comes from the name of the fabric, which is produced in Europe. Material "gin" was named in honor of the sailors from the Italian city of Genoa, who wore clothes made of this fabric.
15. According to psychological studies, dressed in a diaper people seem better because the human eye begins to slide between the long lines of patterns.
16. South Korean police patrol the streets looking for girls in revealing clothes too - for wearing miniskirts relies fine or even arrest.
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1. If in our time men do not always remember, with whom they spent the night last week, in the Victorian era, young people pinned to the hat pubic hair of their loved ones.
2. Removable collar men, popular in the Victorian era were so strict that there are cases of suffocation among gentlemen wearing an accessory - for this they were called "parricide».
3. Embroidery in the form of a crocodile Lacoste company is considered the world's first company logo. It was invented by Rene Lacoste in 1933, which then launched the production of shirts with this logo.
4. Napoleon ordered to sew brass buttons on the sleeves of uniforms soaldat, that they can not wipe their noses. A soldier, who won the battle of the battle, Napoleon bestowed expensive perfume.
5. Officially, soldiers of the Russian army began to wear socks only in 2007 - before they used footcloths - a piece of cloth wrapped around the legs.
6. To attract customers prostitutes in ancient Greece wore shoes that left when walking on sand inscription "Follow me».
7. When a student school in Michigan was suspended from school for wearing T-shirts with the logo metal band Korn, the band members have sent a box of T-shirts, the guy gave them to all my friends. Surprisingly, the police also participated in the distribution of T-shirts.
8. In Europe, white is traditionally considered the color of mourning - everything has changed thanks to the wedding of Queen Victoria, who was at the ceremony in a white dress.
9. According to the American Psychological Association, people are more willing to give money to, whose style resembles their own clothes.
10. In medieval Europe, the level of social man and his profession is determined by the color of clothing. The nobles had to wear red clothes, peasants and common people - clothes in brown and gray colors, and merchants, bankers and petty aristocracy wore green clothes.
11. Louis Rare, maker of bikini named his invention after the Bikini Islands, where the US military carried out a nuclear test. Rare hoped his swimsuit produce the same "explosion" in the society, like an atomic bomb.
12. Julie Newmar, one of the most popular actresses who played Catwoman in 1975 for the first time pantyhose with special patented elastic inserts, makes my stomach flatter. This invention can be considered a precursor Waist tights famous brand Spanx.
13. The writer Mark Twain is considered the inventor of the first fastened strap bra. Before patented his invention, he described it as follows: "The advantages of the elastic strap so obvious that it does not need explanations».
14. The word "jeans" comes from the name of the fabric, which is produced in Europe. Material "gin" was named in honor of the sailors from the Italian city of Genoa, who wore clothes made of this fabric.
15. According to psychological studies, dressed in a diaper people seem better because the human eye begins to slide between the long lines of patterns.
16. South Korean police patrol the streets looking for girls in revealing clothes too - for wearing miniskirts relies fine or even arrest.
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