We are always just concerned with what we see and buy. Hardly anyone cares about the back-story of the industry which is the source of all that we wear today. So much goes behind the scenes of what we see in the stores. The history, the facts, and many more things that we do not get to know ever.

With an intention to make it more interesting to everyone, we thought a list of facts about fashion and its history would be a nice read.

1. ZARA’s low-profile founder Amancio Ortega became the richest man in the world for a brief period in October 2015, surpassing Bill Gates!

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2. Zara’s parent company, Inditex, is the world’s largest apparel retailer.

3. The YKK you see on most zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, which roughly translates to the Yoshida Company Limited. YKK is the most popular zipper maker in the world.

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4. Black Friday (the day following Thanksgiving) and Boxing Day ( the day following Christmas) are known to be the world’s most popular shopping days because of the biggest sales on offer for customers on these days.

5. Lacoste’s little embroidered crocodile was the first-ever designer logo. He created and manufactured it in 1933.

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6. Did you know that the style of low-hanging baggy pants worn by Hip-Hop devotees, originated in the prisons of Los Angeles, in which inmates were not allowed to wear belts.

7. In royal India, noble women used to change their clothes many times a day. They never wore the discarded garments twice, either. What did they do with them? Gave them to their slaves, of course. The only caveat we'll give modern-day heiresses is that they're an improvement over this.

8. Men didn’t wear underwear until the 17th century. Women didn’t bother wearing underwear until around 1800.

9. South Korea used to have an actual fashion police who would go around measuring the length of miniskirts of women. If skirts were deemed too short, they could be fined or arrested.

10. Louis Vuitton is world’s most valuable fashion brand with a valuation of $22.55 billion dollars.

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11. A man designed GPS-programmable shoes that are activated by — you guessed it — clicking your heels together three times.

12. The first pair of Levi’s was sold around 1853 for $6 worth of gold dust. The brand got its distinctive 501 label from the storage lot number it was assigned, in 1890. It just stuck.

13. On average, people in Manhattan spend the most on apparel per month — $362.

14. Pink for girls and blue for boys is a relatively new phenomenon: a 1918-catalog advised blue for girls because it was a “much more delicate and dainty tone” and pink for boys because “it’s a stronger and more passionate colour, and because it’s actually derived from red.”

15. Men’s shirts button on the right and women’s on the left.

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16. What Americans consider “tuxedos” are called “dinner jackets” in Great Britain, as the word tuxedo itself refers to the white version of the suit jacket in British English.

17. In Arab culture, shoes are considered dirty because they touch the ground and cover the lowest part of the body, the foot. It is considered offensive to show one’s shoe sole, and throwing your shoe at someone is an extremely grave insult.

18. High heels were initially worn by both men and women. By men, so that it would help them when they rode their horses. It faded by 1740.

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