Trivia Today - Monday, June 2, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today I have some fun facts about fashion for you. Lately, my sense of fashion consists of what is affordable and what is comfortable!

I'll tell you who does have fashion sense is my four-year-old goddaughter. Yesterday I went shopping with the little fashion diva and her mom, and all she wanted to do was look at dresses - princess dresses, that is!

She is in love with the Disney store and wanted to try on every dress she saw. It made no difference to her that she already has a few of them in her closet at home!

Her mom said no and we ended up finding an adorable - and much more reasonable - summer dress for her at one of the department stores.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

HINT: (1854-1900), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and critic.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The ancient Romans dyed their hair with bird droppings.

When she died in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I owned 3,000 dresses. When Empress Elizabeth of Russia died in 1762, she owned 15,000 dresses.

Bozo the Clown wore size 83 AAA shoes.

Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath crown to hide the fact that he was balding.

The first person to wear silk stockings: England's Queen Elizabeth I. They were a gift.

In 1797 James Hetherington invented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde.

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