Fashion history

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Fashion is an amazing thing. Firstly, it is constantly changing, and secondly, they are constantly chasing after it, but they can’t catch up with it. What is the secret of the fashion world? What secrets does this world hide? There are many interesting and sometimes even strange facts from the history of fashion, which we will share with you today.

Interestingly, a few centuries ago, boys wore the same dresses as girls. It was convenient for them and did not cause any complaints from adults. Closer to the 20th century, such fashion began to be condemned, and today a boy in a dress is considered effeminate, which is unacceptable for society.

Napoleonic buttons

Have you noticed that there are buttons on the sleeves of men's jackets? What are they made for, and who came up with the idea of ​​sewing them in this particular place? It turns out that the designer was Napoleon Bonaparte, who gave the order to sew buttons to the sleeves of all the soldiers so that they would not use them instead of a handkerchief.

15th century fashion

Many people think that fashionistas of ancient times were more like today's housewives than models. However, this is an erroneous opinion. Women in the 15th century were especially emancipated, wearing headdresses with devilish horns, sometimes a tail was attached to the dress. Such was the fashion at that time, and there's nothing to be done about it.

Smoking

This is how the word “tuxedo” is translated, as we call an evening jacket today. It turns out that men used to go out to smoke in a special room so as not to smoke on women. To protect their clothes from the smell of smoke, they dressed in special jackets, which over time were called tuxedos.

Once upon a time, shaved bald women were considered the most beautiful. This can be read in the ancient records of the Egyptians, who lived 1500 years BC. Women of that time ideally cleaned their heads of hair, giving it shine and attractiveness.

Not everyone knows that children's clothing has appeared relatively recently. Only in the 19th century did people begin to think about how to involve little people in the world of fashion. The fact is that earlier children put on the usual outfits of adults, only small sizes. This was due to the fact that children had to imitate adults, taking their example in everything.

Such an invention appeared in 1916. Before that, it never occurred to anyone to glue eyelashes to natural ones. One producer decided to visually enlarge the eyes of an actress who starred in his film. Human hair was used as false eyelashes.

tango model

New York City is considered to be the origin of tango panty fashion. In the 30s of the XX century, the mayor of the city was outraged that all the dancers appeared on stage completely naked. He ordered the artists to come up with something for themselves. This is how tango panties were invented.

The 18th century is an amazing and unique period of time. This is confirmed by the fact that men wore too tight pantaloons. To put on such an outfit, the trousers had to be stretched on pegs, at which time the man had to quickly jump into them.

Today, the cane is used only to help the elderly maintain balance. In past centuries, the cane had a different purpose. She was invented no longer to help, but as an addition to the image. Many prominent personalities collected walking sticks. Such collections could include about 100 models. The cane was used as a fashionable novelty by both men and women.

The fashion world continues to live its own life, presenting us with new and even more interesting facts from its history.

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 by his order 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 "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 - 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 Russia, 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 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, 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 other famous designers are not rated 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.

Hollywood films can often be seen in the frame in costumes of yellow and green. Moreover, yellow is worn by thin people, and green is worn by puffy ones. The secret is that green clothes make a person a little slimmer than he is, and yellow clothes do the opposite.

When the first sunglasses appeared, no one protected their eyes from the sun. The first models were intended, again, for actors who were hit too hard in the eyes by spotlights.

The fashion for blondes did not begin in the 20th century, as one might assume. Even the ancient Greek women artificially lightened their hair using decoctions of herbs and lime water. True, the shade was not blond, but light red. Greek men liked what they saw so much that they even adopted this tradition from women.

Different types of clothing are used by the inhabitants of the Earth in different situations. We put on pajamas when we are going to get a good night's sleep, and for Indians this is one of the forms of casual wear in which it is not shameful to go out.

Today, a cane is a rather rare phenomenon, and only men wear it. And once, on a par with men's, there were ladies' canes: refined, smelling of incense and even playing unpretentious melodies. Apparently, the hostess was not bored.

Decency often dictated to us which parts of the body can be exposed and which not. So, at one time, women in Bermuda could not be shown in society with open hips. But I wanted to wear shorts ... So the then fashionistas came up with something in between trousers and shorts. This is how the famous Bermuda shorts appeared.

For more than 20 years, deliberately “aged” clothes have not gone out of fashion: torn, greasy or worn mechanically. The road to this "sloppy" direction was opened by the "grunge" musical style, which was so popular in the late 80s and early 90s.

For a long time, society rejected women's short haircuts and looked at the ladies who risked such an experiment with condemnation. The fact is that the long hair of a married woman has long been considered evidence of fidelity to her husband. Therefore, if the lady had a short haircut, it could be assumed that she "went to the left."

But this is something else ... The ancient Egyptians at one time had a hairstyle “under zero” in fashion. Moreover, under absolute zero, when the hair was not shaved, but mercilessly plucked. After such an execution, the woman was completely satisfied and even rubbed her head with wax, and it shone like a billiard ball ...

Fashion has had a huge impact on our lives. She never stood still, what was fashionable yesterday was completely tasteless tomorrow. I decided to share with you some interesting facts of this fascinating process.

1) In 1400 BC it was fashionable among Egyptian women to wear a large cone of aromatic fat on their heads. The cone was worn all day, it was fragrant and dripped on the body, giving the skin a greasy sheen and soaking the clothes with fragrance.

2) In Korea during the late 17th - early 20th century, women wore sweaters with a partially or fully open chest as everyday clothes.

3) Medieval people were not distinguished by cleanliness and washed several times in their lives. By the way, at that time they came up with the idea of ​​making underwear from silk so that the lice rolled off and their paws could not cling to the fabric. And to muffle the unimaginable stench of the human body, perfumes were invented. But few people know that the most popular flavors were the smell of mash with coriander, the smell of tobacco with garlic and the smell of turpentine.

Medieval ladies of European high society wore fur-trimmed clothes or entire stuffed stoats, sables, and martens over their dresses to bait fleas. Another way to deal with these insects were special boxes with slots - flea traps.

During the Baroque era, the flea-catcher was a small box with slots that the nobles wore on their bodies to fight fleas and other harmful insects. They rarely washed, it required a lot of money and not everyone could afford a bath, they washed in basins, and more often they simply washed their faces and hands, and wiped their bodies. The smell was drowned out by perfume. Fleas did not cause such disgust in people as lice. Moreover, fleas in many cases aroused interest. The ladies of that era came up with a way to use fleas in the art of flirting. Screaming from imaginary and real flea bites, they thereby invited gentlemen to search for a harmful insect. At that time, it was considered the most erotic fun for men to catch a flea on their beloved.

In the 17th century among French gentlemen, it was considered fashionable to keep, as a sweet memory, a flea caught with one's own hand on the body of the lady of one's heart. They kept a flea in a miniature, often beautiful jewelry box-cage, hanging on a chain around the neck, and every single day the flea sucked the blood of the "happy" owner.

Flea fur was also used to fight fleas, which came into fashion in the late Middle Ages. It is known that fleas love fine-haired fur, so the nobles often used the fur of ermine, sable, forest polecat or marten in clothes to bait fleas on it. Fur flea traps are mentioned in the inventory of the property of Charles the Bold for 1467. The most valuable examples of flea fur in the form of stuffed animals with gilded heads and paws were worn over clothing. So, for example, the Duchess of Ferrara received as a gift from her husband a sable with a golden head, adorned with 12 rubies, 2 diamonds, 3 emeralds and 4 pearls. More than 30 images of women of that time with such flea caps are known. The fashion for the so-called "fur necklaces", fur boas with heads, tails and paws of animals, appeared in the 19th century and did not include the practical idea of ​​\u200b\u200bprotection from fleas.

Since the 16th century, martens, ferrets, stoats and tiny dogs have served their mistresses as living flea traps to protect them from annoying insects. In a small animal, the body temperature is higher than that of a person, fleas rushed to the poor animal, and, unlike the lady, she caught fleas all the time with her teeth.

The need for flea traps disappeared with the increase in the level of hygiene of the population, when public baths and baths were replaced by individual baths and showers.

4) It just so happened by nature that the French medieval ladies were the owners of a very modest bust, and men, as always, loved large magnificent forms in a deep open neckline. French women used two methods to “modify” small breasts: they rubbed the bust with tincture of young stinging nettle with potassium permanganate, which caused the breasts to swell up and increase in size. The second method was not so cruel, but experienced men practically did not peck at it - they put on a dress without a neckline, but tightened it into a corset with special linings that simulate breasts at least up to the 8th size.

5) In the 16th century in Europe, rich noble people preferred high platform shoes, and took servants with them for a walk to support them. Why such difficulties? Again, let's remember a medieval city: slop, dirt and excrement of animals and people on the streets, lack of sewerage ... Each of us saw small outbuildings on the outer wall of a castle or house, these are medieval toilets, from where all sewage fell directly on the heads of passers-by. High-ranking men wandered along such European streets on peculiar stilts (so as not to get dirty “up to their ears”).



Due to falling excrement from the window, umbrellas and wide-brimmed hats were invented.

6) The women of that era had such elaborate hairstyles that not only fleas started up there, but also a couple of mice. He was followed by a page who supported all this beauty with special tools. Women slept on a small sofa and climbed into their hair with a golden hairpin to scratch themselves.

7) Flies came into fashion in the 17th century to hide skin defects (in those days, smallpox was rampant) and for a long time remained popular among ladies of high society.

8) In addition to blond hair, braids became very fashionable for women in the Middle Ages, as a reaction to mass syphilis - long hair was designed to show that a person is healthy. At that time, almost the entire population of southern Europe, from the holy fathers to the street beggars, had been ill with syphilis at that time.

Syphilis XVII-XVIII centuries became a trendsetter. Historian-epidemiologist Professor G. Gezer wrote that because of syphilis, all vegetation on the head and face disappeared. And so the gentlemen, in order to show the ladies that they are completely safe and do not suffer from anything like that, began to grow long hair and mustaches. Well, those who for some reason did not succeed came up with wigs, which, with a sufficiently large number of syphilitics in the upper strata of society, quickly became fashionable.

9) At that time, women with a high forehead were considered beauties. If nature did not endow a lady with such a quality, she simply plucked her hair, achieving a reference indicator.

Note: the lady, whose guilt of cheating on her husband was proven, had a short haircut. That's why every young lady with a long braid was inconceivably proud of her.

11) It was considered a sin for a woman of the early Middle Ages to think about her beauty. The strict customs of that dark era forbade women from being sexually attractive. Under the ban of the church, the ladies almost did not paint their faces and hair. The use of water and soap, the use of fresh air and the sun - natural cosmetics - has been reduced to a minimum. Obeying etiquette, women had to walk in small steps, lowering their eyes, slightly bowing their heads, skillfully grabbing a long dress over their stomachs with their left hand, without dragging it along the ground.
This custom was due to the fact that at that time pregnant women were highly respected - after all, masses of people died in endless feudal strife, the Crusades, from epidemics of cholera, plague, and it was necessary to replenish the population.
... By the way, the fashion for pregnancy and the cult of the Virgin Mary led to the fact that women who, for one reason or another, did not participate in the reproductive process, were forced to buy artificial pregnant bellies for themselves, tied to the body, or “built-in” in a dress ...

12) Leggings first appeared as a type of men's formal leather trousers and were originally made from elk skin, hence the name. Also - from deerskin, later from suede. They were very narrow and therefore worn wetted, drying right on the body. It was very uncomfortable and sometimes caused skin abrasions.

13) Initially, each trouser leg was a separate item and was attached to outerwear with ropes, therefore, in most languages, pants and trousers are plural or dual nouns.
In the 80s of the XIV century, in order to additionally cover the groin, they began to fasten a codpiece (English codpiece, French braguette) on the ties - a separate fabric flap or bag. For many years, the codpiece still remained flat, and then they began to give it a three-dimensional shape. So an ordinary shred to cover the genitals turned into a very fashionable piece of clothing.

14) In the East, transparent pants like harem pants have been known for a long time, they were worn by female concubines. In Europe, women were the first to wear trousers in the early 20th century. At this time, an active struggle for emancipation was carried out, working women appeared who often used a transport novelty - a bicycle. Skirts didn't fit. However, women in trousers were condemned for a very long time.

15) Arrows are a mandatory attribute of modern men's trousers, but this was not always the case. Before the era of industrial production, there were no arrows. And with the development of factory tailoring in the second half of the 19th century, it became necessary to transport large quantities of goods, most often by sea. After unpacking, the pants had creases that were difficult to smooth out, but this option came into vogue.

16) Buttons on the sleeves
Have you ever wondered why men's jackets and women's jackets have buttons on the sleeves?
What functions do they perform? It turns out that this is an invention of Napoleon Bonaparte - he ordered them to be sewn to the sleeves on the jackets of soldiers so that they would leave the bad habit of using sleeves for a cold. True, according to other sources, this merit is attributed to Peter 1.

17) Buttons appeared long before our era, but were used only as decoration. Around the 12th and 13th centuries, buttons were again recognized in Europe, but now they also had a functional meaning of fastening in loops, and not just a decorative one. In the Middle Ages, buttons became such a popular accessory that one could judge the status of the owner by their number on clothes. For example, on one of the outfits of the French king Francis I, there were 13,600 buttons.

18) The king of France, Charles VIII, had very crooked legs, in order to hide them, he introduced long-brimmed camisoles into fashion.

19) France is considered the birthplace of the bra. The first bra was the upper part of the corset cut in half. This original solution came up with the doctor Gosh Saro. However, it was not she who patented it, but American socialite Mary Phelps. Her solution is also simple and ingenious - she connected two handkerchiefs with a ribbon. The Russian emigrant Ida Rosenthal improved and brought to a modern look, having developed a bra with cups of different sizes.

20) It is hard to believe, but at the end of the 19th century, swimming in the sea in the open and in public was not only shameful, but was considered only the lot of commoners. The entire wealthy public bathed in spacious bathrobes (and women also in stockings).
At the beginning of the 20th century, swimming was included in the program of the Olympic Games, and women on the beaches began to gradually expose their arms and legs. The swimwear of that time consisted of shorts and a T-shirt. Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman wore a swimsuit that exposed her arms and legs for the first time at a competition in the United States and was immediately arrested. She was able to continue the competition only after she changed clothes.

In the 1920s, Coco Chanel became a revolutionary in the history of swimwear. She was the first to venture into public bathing in the French resort of Deauville. Chanel also brought tan into fashion, which increased the demand for swimwear. They began to be made from knitwear and jersey, and the cut of swimsuits did not restrict movement. Coco Chanel created a model of a bathing suit that remained in fashion until the middle of the twentieth century: a one-piece swimsuit with tight shorts to the middle of the thigh with straps, in addition to it there were a bathing cap, trousers and a bathrobe.

In 1946, the official "bathing revolution" took place. On July 5, fashion designer Louis Reard introduced a new swimsuit model that exposed the belly. The new swimsuit was named after the island of Bikini, where the US tested a nuclear bomb. The effect was also "explosive": the gendarmes had to disperse the crowd who wanted to look at the girls in a new bathing suit. But in the 1950s, not everyone dared to innovate, and swimsuits with a corset belt were still in fashion. Brigitte Bardot contributed to the spread of the bikini.

21) In the Middle Ages, Japanese fashionistas grew long black hair and licked it back. There was no gel at that time, so how did they do it? No, it wasn't fat. It is known that the oceans around gave almost everything for the needs of the Japanese. The hair gel was ... a small live jellyfish, just caught from the ocean, which the Japanese rubbed into his hair.

22) As for the beautiful Japanese women of that time, they "blackened" their teeth with a special wax-like mass. Geisha came up with this method because even the whitest and most polished teeth looked yellow against the background of a whitened face. Also, black teeth testified to the status and marital status of a Japanese woman.

23) Continuing the topic of teeth… George Washington boasted masterfully inserted artificial teeth, which were made from cow teeth and rhinoceros tusk, and they were fastened with a special metal spring. He also had dentures made from the bones of an elephant, a hippopotamus and other human teeth.
He suffered from toothache throughout his life, and by the time he became president, he had only one tooth left.

24) The traditional clothing of Scottish men - the kilt - can be worn with or without underwear. However, "real" Scots, especially soldiers, according to tradition, still have to wear a kilt on a naked body. Previously, special checks were even arranged in the regiments: an officer with a special mirror looked into the soldiers “under the skirt” and, if underwear was found, forced him to take it off.

25) In the Russian traditional kosovorotka, the slit with the clasp was, as a rule, shifted to the left, less often to the right. The first images of a shirt with such a fastener date back to the 12th century. Such a collar was needed for convenience during work, so that the pectoral cross would not fall out.

Men's shirt
The blouses of the ancient peasants were a construction of two panels that covered the back and chest and were connected at the shoulders with 4-corner cuts of fabric. All classes wore shirts of the same cut. The difference was only in the quality of the fabric.
Women's shirts
Unlike a man's kosovorotka, a women's shirt could reach the hem of a sundress and was called "stan". There was even a style of a women's shirt with gathered sleeves especially for feeding babies. In Siberia, for example, a women's shirt was called "sleeves", because only sleeves were visible from under a sundress. Women's shirts carried a different meaning and were called everyday, festive, mowing, magic, wedding and funeral. A deep meaning was laid in the decoration elements of a women's shirt. Various symbols - horses, birds, the tree of Life, lanka, plant patterns - corresponded to various pagan deities. Red shirts were amulets against evil spirits and misfortunes.
Children's shirts
The father's shirt served as the first diaper for a newborn boy, and the mother's shirt for girls. They tried to sew children's shirts from the fabric of a worn shirt of a father or mother. It was believed that the strength of the parents would protect the baby from damage and the evil eye. For boys and girls, the shirt looked the same - a linen blouse up to the heels. Mothers always decorated their children's shirt with embroidery. All patterns had protective meanings. As soon as the children moved into a new stage, they were entitled to the first shirt from a new fabric. At the age of three - the first shirt from novelty. At the age of 12 - poneva for girls and trousers for boys.
Kosovorotki by appointment
Pokosnitsa: Pokosnitsa or "stubble" shirt. Men in Russia put on a scythe on the first day of harvest.
Killer: Killer is a shirt with a long sleeve. The girl was supposed to wear a killer shirt for a week before the wedding. In it, she mourned her youth, prepared for a new married life in a strange family.
Wedding shirt: The most elegant kosovorotka is a wedding shirt. This shirt was embroidered with complex patterns. The main color of the ornament is red. After the wedding, the shirt did not lose its significance. It was put on for holidays and ceremonies, according to customs, it was carefully kept.

26) In the wardrobe of every modern woman, there is definitely a white blouse or dress, but in the Middle Ages, clothes made of white fabric were practically not sewn. Most often it was used by commoners, as the fabric was very cheap. Can a fashionista afford a cheap outfit? That's right, because before you get to the tailor, the fabric was dyed, and the paints were quite expensive. By the way, in the Middle Ages, girls in a white dress did not get married.

27) A knitted woolen sweater in its usual form appeared in Europe in the 19th century. Initially, it was recommended by doctors as a weight loss garment, as it promoted sweating during exercise. It is from the English verb to sweat, which means "sweat", that the name sweater came from.

28) It turns out that children's clothing appeared quite recently. The first attempts to create a children's costume were made only in the 19th century - before that, children were dressed in things of small sizes intended for adults. It also had to do with attitudes in society. For example, the little girl was supposed to resemble the reduced size of a noble, reserved lady.
Over time, humanity has come to the conclusion that it is not very convenient that children should wear something different and look different. Just then, fashion was divided into children's and adult.

29) Today, the generally accepted colors of clothing for girls and boys are pink and blue, respectively. However, such a division was formed in the United States and European countries only in the 1940s. And in the case of gender, the recommendations were directly opposite to modern standards. For example, in the children's issue of Earnshow's magazine from 1918, it was said: “According to the generally accepted rule, pink should be chosen for boys, and blue for girls, since pink is stronger and more solid, and blue is more elegant and sophisticated.

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