Portrait photo of British journalist George Augustus Sala wearing an ascot tie. An ascot is a type of cravat. Cravats were early forms of what we now call the necktie, and were invented by the Croats.
The word eventually shifted a little and became cravat. John Singer Sargent in a pleated ascot tie, c. Ascots were a form of cravat that first began appearing around the turn of the 18th century. Plaid Capri pants. This item of clothing is actually named for the island of Jersey in the United Kingdom.
The island has a long tradition of making very warm sweaters with a tight weave, meant to help seaman stay warm. Americans adopted the term for their early football uniforms, which were made of wool and meant to offer some protection for football players in the early s. At least, it did in the U. In the U. These tight, stretchy garments get their name from the Frenchman who first wore them, Jules Leotard. He was very skilled on the parallel bars, and eventually got the idea of hanging a bar on two ropes, inventing the trapeze.
He introduced his new trapeze act on November 12, , at the Cirque Napoleon. He created the snug, stretchy outfit to both give ease of movement and to show off his body during his act. Many common articles of clothing and general fashion terms have surprising geographic roots. Getty Images Jersey cattle, New Jersey, and basketball jerseys all hail, etymologically speaking, from Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy.
There, they knitted a close-fitting garment that, by the mids, was morphing into the jerseys athletes, and their diehard fans, sport today. The name for this tucked-in necktie trots back to Ascot, a town outside London that has long hosted a prestigious annual horserace the Royal Family attends.
And one wants to look nice for the monarch, no? By the early s, men were putting on the ascot tie for the event, shortened to ascot by the s. The history of the tuxedo is just as posh as you'd expect. The name tuxedo dates back to the late s, when wealthy men in Tuxedo Park, New York, began donning the black and white ensemble [source: Etymonline ]. At that time, Tuxedo Park was a residential club made up of rustic mansions that required white-tie and tailcoats as the dress code for its annual autumn ball.
Apparently, millionaire James Brown Potter brought back the concept of semi-formal dinner jackets after visiting Britain and once he debuted the look back in NYC, it picked up popularity and was dubbed, a tuxedo jacket [source: Loveland ]. Our favorite itty-bitty swimsuit didn't get a proper name until the s, but historians say the two-piece bathing staple actually has roots as far back as Ancient Rome where 4th-century mosaics depict gymnasts adorned in separate tops and bottoms.
Despite the early introduction, flesh-exposing female clothing went out of favor for much of modern history, and swimming uniforms in the early 20th century were about as modest and all-concealing as you can imagine.
Slowly, however, well-known women made waves by wearing less and less to the beach, and by the s, screen sirens like Rita Hayworth, were showing off a once-scandalous strip of flesh above their belly buttons. During that time, when the world was acutely aware of nuclear lingo, attractive women were commonly called "bombshells" and anything of intensity was referred to as "atomic.
It's no wonder, then, that when two separate two-piece swimsuit designs debuted in France in the summer of , one was named the "atome. Reard figured it was highly appropriate to call his design "le bikini," and the name stuck [source: Turner ].
When an entire " Sex and the City " storyline revolves around a particular type of handbag, you know it's a fashion must-have. She had just placed her straw travelling bag in the overhead compartment for her seat, but the contents fell leaving a mess.
There is nothing comparable despite how hard others might try. Unlike Jane, however, I actually covet too many bags to own just a Birkin! According to The Washington Post , argyle didn't actually start out as the strait-laced preppy staple it's become over time. In fact, the pattern we know today started out to be indicative of rebellion and revolution.
The diamond pattern originated in s Scotland, but drew inspiration from the tartan of the 17th-century Clan Campbell of Argyll in western Scotland. He returned to his castle at Dunoon, but the tartan of his lineage had since become associated with anti-establishment ideology.
By the time clothing company Pringle of Scotland picked up on the pattern after World War I, the once alternative style became tied to royalty and leisure, and eventually a popular look for golfers galore [source: Urken ]. Another posh piece of clothing with an interesting name history is the ascot , that tucked-in necktie thingee you may have seen in paintings draped across the throats of 19th-century British gents. It always seems to be employed in movies to signify upper-class snobbery, too.
The ascot is actually a type of cravat, which is really any type of neckwear worn by a gentleman. The ascot, like a tie and a bowtie , evolved from the cravat during the 19th century, but the term ascot , specifically, comes from the men who attended the Royal Ascot Race which took place in a town outside of London called — you guessed it — Ascot.
The cravat was part of the morning dress and was both a functional and decorative accessory. Because the Royal Family regularly attended the prestigious events, men dressed to the nines and added the drapey "ascot tie," to their dapper duds.
The piece of clothing became popular in the s and the name was shortened simply to "ascot. Long before three-quarter-length pants made a major comeback in the early s along with bedazzled jeans and halter tops , these were all the rage in the s and s. These mid-calf pants earned the name capris thanks to European fashion designer Sonja de Lennart who named the look after the Italian island of Capri, where ladies were rocking the shorter look in droves.
Lennart's original capri pant became a sexy alternative to lady's trousers, which were basically identical to men's pants at that time.
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