Pants cuffs became popular when
men rolled up their pants to keep them clean.
It is said that this started with the Windsor Cricket Club in
the 1860s.
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In the US, the stripes on a tie run downward from right to left,
but in England, the stripes run downward from left to right.
Which is the right way for tie stripes to go? The stripes should
go in the same direction as the suit jacket closes. In other
words, if the buttons on your jacket are on the right side of
jacket, the stripes of the tie should run downward to the right
(and vice versa).
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The pleats in a cummerbund were used to hold tickets.
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The zipper was originally called the slide fastener. It dates
back to the 1890s.
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The first real bra was created out of protest to the whalebone
corset.
It was made from handkerchiefs and ribbon in the early 1900s.
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Pants cuffs were banned in WWII to save fabric.
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Oxford is a soft basket-weave fabric first woven by a Scottish
Mill.
Harvard, Cambridge and Yale cloths were also woven but never
became popular.
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Wallis Simpson gave a gift of platinum and diamond cufflinks to
Edward,
the soon-to-be King of England. In 1987, these sold for $440,000
in an auction.
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By AD1000 socks were a symbol of wealth.
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The 10-gallon cowboy hat was originally called "Boss of the
Plains."
It was invented in 1865 in Central City, Colorado by John B.
Stetson.
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In the late 1960s and early 70s, ties grew to five inches in
width.
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The shoestring was invented in England in 1790.
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Glen R. Mills of North Carolina combined underpants and
stockings into
one garment to invent pantyhose in 1959.
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Long johns, introduced in the 1880s, were called union suits
because they were worn by Civil War soldiers. The union suit was
renamed long johns in the 1940s. The name was taken from the
similarly styled swimming trunk named after the garment that
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