Fashion facts

• Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person.
• Clothes that are dry cleaned last longer.
• The skirt is the second oldest women's garment in history.
• The four major current fashion capitals in the world are acknowledged to be Milan, Paris, New York City and London.
• Before 1850 clothes were not made for fashion, but rather for commodity.
• The fashion industry has long been one of the largest employers in the United States.
• In the Eighteenth century it was even considered fashionable to wear fake eyebrows made from mouse skin.
• In ancient Egypt, women used to use henna to lighten their hair.
• In Cleopatra's time berries and other natural ingredients were used to enhance the face.
• The 20th century saw the beginning of convincing-looking false eyelashes, popular in the 1960s.

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