Blog Prompt

Fashion Facts. Over the centuries, fashions have taken dramatic changes. Do you know of any obscure fashion facts to add to our knowledge?

Totally the wrong person to ask. I have no idea! I'd have to look that up!

1. The first pair of Doc Martens were made from old tires.
2. Elizabeth the I loved hats so much that she made it mandatory for all females over the age of 7 to wear a hat on Sundays and holidays. Anyone who refused to do so was stiffly fined.
3. Many years ago the blue-blooded society of women would change their garments many times a day. The clothes were never worn again by the royalty, but were instead, given to the slaves.
4. Victorian times promoted the hourglass figure causing women everywhere to wear tight corsets. Some women wore the corsets so tight that in doing so, they often broke ribs.
5. Women who had straight hair wanted it to be curly. Those with curly hair looked for options to straighten it. In 1906 the first hair perms began, requiring clientele to sit for six hours or more while a dozen brass curlers were positioned. Each curler weighed close to 2 pounds making this an uncomfortable ritual at best. Aristocratic ladies of the 16th century even went as far as to grow pubic hair as long as possible then adorn it with ribbons and bows. (Ok, this one is kind of gross, but obscure nonetheless.)
6. Early bras weren't exactly a fashion statement, though. Some consisted of simply a ribbon which tied two handkerchiefs together.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/9551/strange_but_true_fashion_facts.html

7. Agnes Sorel, the mistress of King Charles VII of France was the first woman to wear diamonds.
8. Although the hardest substance known, diamonds they can be chipped. They have a grain line and may be broken by a sharp blow along this line.
http://searchwarp.com/swa7270.htm

These are just a few that I found.