TRIVIA TODAY – Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Although often changing, fashion has always been an important
part of society. It’s funny how fashion trends change over
time, and what might be considered fashionable to some folks
would never be the style for others.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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                    TODAY’S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: “There is much to support the view that it is clothes
that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the
mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts,
our brains, our tongues to their liking.”

HINT: (1882-1941), English novelist, essayist, epistler,
publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded
as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the
twentieth century.

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                        RANDOM TIDBITS

The French philosopher Voltaire owned eighty canes, and his
contemporary, Jean Jacques Rousseau, owned forty. Canes
were in great vogue in eighteenth-century France, and women
as well as men carried them. Women’s canes often came
equipped with perfume bottles, music boxes, or romantic
pictures hidden inside.

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To preserve their elaborate coiffures, Geishas in ancient
Japan slept with their heads on bags filled with buckwheat
chaff.

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The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a
mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the center
of their noses to make them appear longer. Among San Bias
men, an enormous nose is the mark of a great leader.

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It was the style among eighteenth-century Englishmen to
wear pantaloons so tight they had to be hung on special
pegs that held them open, allowing the wearer to ]ump down
into them This was the only way fashionable gentlemen could
get their trousers to fit properly.

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In 1500 B.C. in Egypt a shaved head was considered the
ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every
hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and
polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.

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In nineteenth-century England it was considered vulgar to
hold an umbrella under one’s arm. Well-bred people gripped
their Umbrellas in the middle, with the handle turned
toward the ground.

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                  *** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***

I have no eyes, no legs or ears and yet I help move the
earth.

What am I?

 

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QUOTE: “There is much to support the view that it is clothes
that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the
mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts,
our brains, our tongues to their liking.”

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf.

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