Module One Post Fifteen

Since it’s the last post for module one, I will be telling you 5 fun facts about fashion design.

1. The first fashion magazine was published in Germany in 1586.

2. Evidence for the first clothes dates somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago.

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

4. The four major fashion capitals of the world are New York, London, Milan, and Paris.  Each city holds fashion shows twice, in February and September.

5. The five most common clothing materials are linen, cotton, polyester, and rayon. Cotton is the most widely used clothing material, but it only became common in mid 1800 s, when Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made it easy to separate the cotton fibers from the seeds.

Module One Post Fourteen (Fun Facts)

My fourteenth post will be a few fun facts about tap throughout the years. Before tap shoes were available African American slaves weren’t allowed to play their drums, so they beat out the rhythm using their feet. Tap shoes now and the different kinds of tap shoes then were similar in the way that they make sounds but not the materials that they used, for example they used wooden clogs on leather shoes.During the 1930-1940’s tap had gotten a bigger audience and people like Fred Astaire and Ray Bolger impressed many people and brought tap to Hollywood. I think this website is nice for people who just want to know a few facts about tap but not read five paragraphs about it.