These are some of the craziest facts around fashion in the old days.
- In the 18th century, it was considered the height of fashion to wear false eyebrows made out of mouse skin.
- At the end of the 15th century, men’s shoes had a square toe. The fashion was promoted by Charles
- In the royal courts of India, blue-blooded women used to change their clothes several time a day. They never wore the discarded garments again but gave them to slaves instead.
- The first pair of Doc Martens were made form old tyres.
- It was considered elegant for aristocratic ladies of the 16th century to grow their pubic hair long and tie bows and ribbons in it.
- In their quest for an hour-glass figure, some Victorian women wore corsets so tight that they suffered broken ribs.
- In a recent survey, one in ten Americans admitted that they bought an outfit with the intention of wearing it just the once and then returning it to the shop.
- Designer AndrĂ© van Pier created a bra adorned with 3,250 diamonds. It cost £641,000.
- Early bras were made form two handkerchiefs tied together by ribbon.
- False eyelashes were invented solely for Hollywood. Producer D.W. Griffth wanted to enhance actress
- Seena Owen’s eyes for the 1916 film Intolerance and had a wigmaker weave human hair through a fine gauze.
- Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives.
- When Louis XIV of France occupied the city of Strasbourg in 1681, he ordered its citizens to adopt French fashions within four months.
- 40 per cent of women have hurled footwear at men.
- The average woman consumes 6lb of lipstick in her lifetime.
- The plastic bits on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most lipsticks contains fish scales.
- Men didn’t wear underwear until the 16th century.
- Well thats it for now, i'll post more weird fashion later on. So stay tuned!
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