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The Wikipedia article on the upturned collar is surprisingly informative and relevant.
With origins predating the 20th century, the upturned or 'popped' collar was somewhat ubiquitous. Even President James Buchanan wore upturned collars:
At this time, upturned collars were detachable, and were notorious for being quite uncomfortable and stiff.
The ...
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The Red Army also used them. In Russian they are called by a word "galife" after French general Gaston Alexandre Auguste de Galliffet. He is the man who originally ordered their use.
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Wearers of the Zoot suit were not really "hip" (in the usual sense of the word).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit
They were mainly Latinos and African-Americans, who wore them as a protest against oppression, rather than as a cultural statement, although some elements of jazz, slang, and "lifestyle" issues accompanied them. With the onset of World ...
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I've found that musketeers had large beards to store matches in, an that there is a strong link between small beards and civilization.
The books Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age, and, A Most Precocious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare In The Early Contact Period (yes thats the title), both say that the long beards were used to store the long ...
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South India has had a vast number of kingdoms , each having its own variety and having being influenced differently from other kingdoms , in culture , custorms , religion , art , language and of course the attire of all classes of society.
So it's not wise to put them in one general basket called south india.
Since it is not possible to quantitatively ...
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The thing that initially popularlized the popped collar in the 80's, along with many other "Preppy" fashions (eg: the sweater worn tied around the neck or waist) was The Official Preppy Handbook, which came out in 1980.
I never owned a copy, but I was "that age" when it came out, so lots of people brought them to school and I thumbed through it. (I was ...
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The reason you find wildly varied depictions of Faust is because there are quite a few versions of the Faustian legend, Goethe's being fairly recent. Here's a brief and incomplete list:
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587), by Johann Spies,
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1604), by Christopher Marlowe,
Das Faustbuch Des ...
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Well, it should be pretty clear that the purpose of putting buttons (or whatever you want to call them) on a lower pants leg is to make it easier to put on and remove tall boots.
In turn, tall boots as a garment are much more useful in an era of horse-borne travel and unpaved roads. If you don't make that connection, perhaps the riding crop there in the ...
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Every so often in American history, we have a "girl power" movement. One appears to be happening right now, as we speak. That is, today's girls are graduating from college in greater numbers than boys, and getting better entry-level jobs. This appears to have no precedent in American or world history.
This "girl power" movement is an offshoot of their ...
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The answer appears to be the Venetian Republic was the first nation to hold masquerade balls.
Wikipedia has an article on the history of masquerade
Victorian Masquerade Ball confirms many of the assertions in wikipedia
Samantha Peach has an article that is less well sourced
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There is a difference in Wikipedia between "hip" and "hipster" but I suspect that would be cleared up with an edit. "Hip" means "in the know" as in part of a sub-culture. The definition of "hipster" as used in the 40's as a jazz aficionado and etceteras (as someone above has posted) would have been the use within the jazz community and there were certainly ...
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