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• False eyelashes were invented for Hollywood producer D.W. Griffith who wanted to enhance Seena Owen’s eyes for a 1916 film. The eyelashes were made out of real human hair.
• Today’s average woman uses 6 pounds of lipstick in a year but few of them know that one ingredient frequently used in manufacturing lipsticks is fish scales.
• The first pair of Doc Martens were made from old tires. Little was it known how popular these would become.
• Marie Antoinette was modest about her body so she wore gowns which buttoned all the way up to the top of the neck. She was so modest, in fact, that she wore these gowns even while bathing!
• Elizabeth 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.
• When Clark Gable was at the height of his career men’s wardrobes were often fashioned after his style. Once, while on screen he removed his coat and wasn’t wearing a vest. Immediately vests sales dropped by 40%.
• 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.
• 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.
• Men didn’t wear underwear until the 16th century.
• Designer Andre van Pier once created a bra adorned with 3,250 diamonds.
• Madonna’s “bullet bra” which she wore during her Blonde Ambition tour was designed based on an antique breastplate worn by Italian soldiers.

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