▲Speaking of Oz, Dorothy's famous slippers worn by Judy Garland in the film were stolen from a museum in Minnesota, USA in 2005. But after years of mystery, it was announced that they were recently recovered in the summer of 2018 in an undercover FBI sting operation.

▲The Guinness World Record for the longest wedding dress train is a whopping 8,095.4 m (26,559.71 ft)—long enough to nearly cover Mount Everest!

▲Napoleon had brass buttons sewn onto the sleeves of his soldiers to prevent them from wiping their noses on their uniforms.

▲In space, astronauts do not do laundry. They just throw their dirty underwear out of the spaceship and it incinerates upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.

▲Meanwhile, the women were drenching themselves in water so that their clothes and dresses would fit as tightly as possible. Some ended up dying from pneumonia.

▲Can you believe there is a store in Alabama, USA, called the Unclaimed Baggage Center, which sells everything that isn't claimed at the airport?

▲Speaking of Italy, jeans were actually named after sailors in Genoa, who used to don the denim material.

▲In some countries, like Italy, there is a funny tradition when it comes to celebrating the New Year. You must ring in every New Year wearing a pair of red underwear, otherwise you will have bad luck.

▲The first designer logo in history was the Lacoste crocodile created in 1933.

▲There is a legend in Iceland that says if you don't receive new clothes for Christmas, you will be eaten by a giant cat.

▲The first pair of Levi's was sold in the 1850s for US$5-worth of gold dust.

▲If you can believe it, live chameleons were worn as brooches and fashion accessories back in the 1800s.

▲Prior to Queen Victoria's marriage, white was the color worn at funerals.

▲Heels were actually worn by rich and elite men first to show off their upper-class status.

▲A person who collects ties is called a grabologist.

▲The average American woman will spend US$125,000 on clothes during her lifetime.

▲Buttons on men's dress shirts are on the right while women's are on the left. The reason for this dates back to the 13th century. Wealthy women had maids who dressed them so this made it easier for them since most people were right-handed.

▲Even more specifically, in Manhattan, the average person spends roughly US$350 on clothing monthly. In the state of Arizona? About US$131.

▲Corsets used to be so tight, they actually worked as appetite suppressants.

▲There is a bizarre, unofficial fashion rule that says Americans cannot wear white after the first Monday of September. The silly "law" goes back to snobbish socialites from the late 1800s to early 1900s, who just decided that white was no longer appropriate fall attire for formal functions and dinner parties.

▲Dresses in the 1860s used to be so big that women would get stuck in doorways.

▲According to List25, the famous NBA star Michael Jordan's father was murdered by a teen wearing an MJ shirt.

▲The clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch offered to pay 'Jersey Shore' reality television star Mike Sorrentino US$10,000 to stop wearing their clothing on the show because he and his antics were giving them a bad reputation.

▲Inspired by the 'Wizard of Oz,' shoe maker Dominic Wilcox invented GPS shoes that will actually lead you home if you click your heels together.

▲In the Victorian era, men's collars were so tight, some choked and died because of it!

▲For Arabs, shoes are considered dirty, therefore throwing a shoe is regarded as the ultimate insult.

▲Are you wearing pants with a zipper on them? Take a look at it. More than likely you will see the three small letters YKK on it, which stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

▲The Russian military only recently started wearing socks. By the end of 2013, they finally did away with what they wore previously– a wrap cloth around their feet.

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Long before today's wedges and platforms, there were these babies—the original platform shoe, popular between the 15th and 17th centuries in Venice.

Sources: (List25)

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