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First Things First

First of all, the torch of fashion blogging has been passed! So here’s a big howdy y’all from your new Alberta Fashion Blogger, writing to you from the land where miniskirts and short shorts can only be spotted for three months a year when there’s no snow (okay so maybe a little exaggeration).

I’m super excited to be on board, and since it’s the first blog... to get all themed up, here’s an interesting list of "First in Fashion".


The first ever blue jeans
The first blue jeans were made by Levi Strauss who began the first blue jeans company, selling for 13.50 a dozen in 1874. Shopping Spree! If only.

The first button down - dress shirt collar
Next time you button one up, thank the Brooks Brothers who introduced them in 1896.

You must be kedding me
Sneakers, called Keds, are first produced in America by the U.S Rubber Company in 1916.

The sisterhood of the legal pants
In the 1920’s, the U.S. attorney general says that it is legal for women to wear pants. Shocking! But pants appeared in different cultures before then also.

Short but stocking
The first skin-nude colored stockings are sold in 1922.

La Cost of designer wear
Tennis ace Rene Lacoste first introduced the tennis shirt with the well known crocodile in the 1930’s. Apparently it’s the first time a designer logo appeared!

Fashion week
The first New York Fashion Week was called Press Week. It was designed to attract attention from the French fashion shows since the fashion industry people were unable to get to Paris fashion shows due to World War II. Held first in 1943, it was the world's first organized fashion week.

The short tale of the bikini
At a fashion show in Paris, the Bikini bathing suit first made its debut in 1946.

Kiss this
Kiss-proof lipstick hits the shelves in 1950.

Grin and gap it
The first ever Gap store opens in San Francisco, 1969. Two words: World Domination.

Just do it
They first ‘just did it’ in 1972 when Nike began to manufacture sneakers; the first shoe was a soccer shoe named Nike, and the rest is history. Dare we imagine what they looked like…

Designer jeans
Looks like even designer jeans have ancestors - Gloria Vanderbilt introduced the first designer jeans in 1978.

Image credit:
Flickr/bobster855 / CC BY 2.0
Balboa Beach, Cal., 1920, Annual Bathing Girl Parade. From the Library of Congress.