Fashion facts

• Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person.
• Clothes that are dry cleaned last longer.
• The skirt is the second oldest women's garment in history.
• The four major current fashion capitals in the world are acknowledged to be Milan, Paris, New York City and London.
• Before 1850 clothes were not made for fashion, but rather for commodity.
• The fashion industry has long been one of the largest employers in the United States.
• In the Eighteenth century it was even considered fashionable to wear fake eyebrows made from mouse skin.
• In ancient Egypt, women used to use henna to lighten their hair.
• In Cleopatra's time berries and other natural ingredients were used to enhance the face.
• The 20th century saw the beginning of convincing-looking false eyelashes, popular in the 1960s.
• In Average, each woman uses 2.7 kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in a year.
• In the Sixteenth century Italy, it was fashion for women to colour their teeth.
• Prince Philip of Calabria, loved gloves so much that he sometimes wore 16 pairs at a time.
• Not long ago, married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives.
• Elizabeth I of England made it mandatory for all females over the age of seven to wear a hat on Sundays and holidays.
• Vogue, founded in the Unites States in 1892, has been the longest-lasting and most successful of the hundreds of fashion magazines that have come and gone.
• Most lipsticks contains fish scales.