The wearing of clothing is specifically human characteristic and most human societies wear some form of clothing. There is no information about when we started using clothes but there are ideas why. Anthropologists think that animal skins and vegetation were adapted as protection from weather condition...
The other – more likely explanation – is that the flap – which buttons across the collar and top of the coat – prevents rain from running down in between the buttons, and getting your clothes wet!…which is why it’s called a storm-flap. The storm-flap is always on the right ch...
The sterling silver lapel badge was intended to be worn in civilian clothes. It had been the practice of some women to present white feathers to apparently able-bodied young men who were not wearing the King’s uniform. The badge was to be worn on the right breast while in civilian dress...
Late 19th century iron designs experimented with heat-retaining fillings. Designs of this period became more and more ingenious and complicated, with reversible bases, gas jets and other innovations. See some inventive US modelshere. By 1900 there were electric irons in use on both sides of the ...
Orleans. Captured by the Burgundians, and ransomed by the English, she was put on trial on charges of witchcraft and fraud. She eventually was convicted only of wearing male clothes, an offense against the Church, and was burned at the stake. Her legend grew and she became canonized in ...
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Tibetans dress in layers of clothes to protect themselves from the harsh weather. The women wrap their heads in cloth. Uighur women wear long skirts and bright-colored scarves; the men wear embroidered caps. Political Life Government. China is a communist state. The president is the chief ...
At that time, Xu Lu had no regular stalls, and the vendors selling clothes were putting the goods on the homemade iron shelves and peddling them on the roadside to passers-by. On holidays, there are many people in the vicinity of Xu Road. ...
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Spurred by a building boom, archaeologists are plumbing the deep past of one of Europe’s oldest capitals.