1. What Americans consider “tuxedos” are called “dinner jackets” in Great Britain, as the word tuxedo itself refers to the white version of the suit jacket in British English.
2. Dresses and skirts are commonly seen as
women’s clothing in the West, but in other parts of the world, men wear them as frequently as women do.
3. More than 2 billion t-shirts are sold each year.
4. A person’s social rank and profession in the
Medieval Ages was represented by the color of their clothing. The nobility wore red, peasants wore brown and gray, and merchants, bankers, and gentry wore green.
5. In Rome, purple clothing was exclusively
reserved for emperors and magistrates.
6. The earliest known shoes are sandals that date back to approximately 7,000 B.C. However, bone analysis of early humans suggest humans began wearing shoes as early as 40,000 years ago.
7. In Arab culture, shoes are considered dirty
because they touch the ground and cover the lowest part of the body, the foot. It is considered offensive to show one’s shoe sole, and throwing your shoe at Someone is an extremely grave insult.
8. The difference between two nominal clothing
sizes is approximately ten to fifteen pounds.
9. Standard women’s clothes are designed to fit women between 5’4 and 5’8 tall.
10. One silk cocoon produces an average of 600 to 900 meters of silk filaments, but it takes four to eight pieces to make one strand of silk thread. In all, it takes about 30,000 silkworms to produce 12 pounds of raw silk.
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