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se with a career in fashion are certainly content to ride along with the whims of their contemporaries. But,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perhaps in the odd moment in the stock room or pausing over your designing template, you paused to wonder, "Why do we do this this way anyway?" So here we'll have a round-up of all those fashion quirks that you always wondered about in the course of your fashion career, but never dug deep enough to explain:
Where does the stitching on the back pockets of Levi's jeans come from?
The stitching originally because Levis featured cotton-lined back pockets, and the stitches were intended to keep the lining from buckling. The color of the thread was also orange, to match the distinctive rivets. The rivets themselves were another innovation - riveted seams were a dramatic advance in work clothes technology that doubled the durability of the product. The lining was dropped soon afterward,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the stitches lived on; they had become such a distinctive part of the Levis look that the company was able to register them as a trademark in 1942.
What is the original purpose of men's neckties?
The wearing of neck cloths dates back at least to the time of the Roman Empire, when soldiers wore a neck band to catch the sweat or block the cold,Jordan Retro 13 Just Enjoy Life - Marshall Guitar, depending on the weather of the season. In the seventeenth century, the Croatian regiment of Louis XIV also wore neck cloths, from which we derive our word "cravat". Cravats, which were cloths wound around the neck and often tied at the ends, gradually evolved into the bow tie, and by the nineteenth century into the modern long tie. As with many fashion accessories, this one lost it's function in pursuit of style.
Why do we say a "pair of pants" when there's only one unit?
That's actually more of a vagary of the English language than any important clothing history. It is true that originally separate articles of clothing for each leg, such as stockings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], evolved to mean a pair of any leg-covering item, as in "a pair of hose". But years later, when the two pieces of hose was joined at the top to make pants, the plural identity stuck. English has a lot of these nouns which were once dual but now singular: eyeglasses, scissors, tweezers, shears, and pliers.
Who invented Velcro?
Most fashion mavens probably wish the answer were "nobody" and then they wouldn't have to nag people not to wear it. But velcro was invented by one George de Mestral. He got the idea while hunting game birds in the ancient Jura mountains of Switzerland. Doing so, he had to pull sticky cockleburrs clinging to the dog's coat and his own trousers. He examined the cockleburrs and decided that they'd make good clothing fasteners. The fashion police never forgave him.
Why is a man's billfold pocket on the left side?
It seems odd given the right-handed dominance that most men's clothing are designed with. However, the wallet on the left makes perfect sense when you consider that it takes less dexterity to retrieve a wallet than it does to open it and take out bills in the right amount. Try having a right-hander take out their wallet with the right hand, then have them take money out - they'll shift the wallet to the left hand and open it and take the bills out with their right.
Where did the extra-long pinkie nail com from?
Originally it was an organic means of scooping snuff, cocaine, and other inhalant drugs up to be sniffed. Later it became a symbol of belonging to a counter-culture, currently amongst Goths. Some Goths claim that they use it to hold the sugar when they pour their Absinthe. OK, whatever. Independent of this development is the custom in various parts of the word for keeping one long and sharpened nail to open envelopes.
Where did cotton T-shirts come from?
Originally these started out as underwear carried home from France by World War one "doughboys", becoming a statement of youthful rebellion after James Dean wore one in "Rebel Without a Cause". Next T-shirts were then adopted as o