1. The four most common clothing material are linen, cotton, polyester, and rayon.
2. Cotton is the most widely used clothing material, but it only became common in mid 1800s, when Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made it easy to separate the cotton fibers from the seeds.
3. Evidence for the first clothes dates somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.
4. Simple needles made out of animal bone first appeared about 30,000 years ago.
5. The bikini was named after the island Bikini
Atoll, where the US military was testing its bombs in.World War 2. It was so named because its creator, Louis Réard, believed the revealing suit would create a shock like that of the atomic bomb.
6. Women’s nominal clothing sizes have increased in physical size over the years in a phenomenon known as “vanity sizing.” A size 8 dress with a 32-inch bust in 1967 is now considered a size 0 today.
7. 10-25% of Western women don’t wear a bra, and 75-85% of women who do, wear an incorrect size.
8. Both the pencil skirt and the A-line skirt were
designed by Frenchman Christian Dior, who is
singlehandedly credited with inspiring 1950s fashion.
9. Children dressed identically to adults until the mid-1800s, when the concept of children’s clothing took off.
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