7 hidden facts about fashion you never knew

Fashion a popular style or practice in clothing ,footwear,accessories ,makeup and body.Fashion is the constant trend in the style a person is wearing,it is the styles in behavior ,environment and newest creation of textile designers.There are some crazy facts about fashion invention that we are yet to know about.Today i will be giving you 7 facts about fashion , these include :

1. Have you ever wondered why you have buttons on the sleeves of your jackets?Napoleon Bonaparte was the surprising trend-investor responsible for that fashion. He ordered that all his soldiers wear buttons on their sleeves.

2. King Tutankhamun made eyeliner so poplar,around 1920s.which sparked a renewed interest in Ancient Egypt those days, and people saw images of the young king wearing eyeliner.

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3. Men wore high heels before women took it from them,The high heel wasn’t invented to make the ladies look hot and sexy; it was invented to stop men falling off their horses each time they are riding! not  until much later that high heels became fashion item for women.

4. The word “jeans” came from the word “Genes”, which was a word used to describe the sailors of Genoa in Italy those days, who wore blue denim trousers. When Levi Strauss, however, patented his design for what we now called jeans, he called them “waist-high overalls”. 

5. Even today, the control of most of the big fashion houses and fashion magazines is still in the hands of the men. Of all the industries you’d have thought that fashion is one place that women would have redressed the balance, but most fashion houses, stores, and magazines, still have a man,so men are still in leading in the fashion world.

6. You might have thought that skirts became shorter because of changing attitudes to morality and to the showing of bare legs, but it was for a far more practical reason than that. The first short skirts are thought to have been designed to make it easier for girls to get in and out of automobiles without so much stress.

7. That essential item for any rainy day, the umbrella, was not invented to keep the rain off at all. The oldest written reference to an umbrella dates back to 21 AD and it refers to a device designed to shield a person from the sun. In fact, the very word umbrella is derived from the Latin word “umbra”, which means shadow, or shaded.But now it is mostly believed that the essential need is for rain instead of sun.