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What was women fashion in 1950?
Women fashion in the 1950s was below the knee puffy dress made with stripped designs or mostly solid colors and hats.
What were the skirts called that roman soldiers wore?
Tunics. The military tunic was slightly shorter than the civilian tunic falling a little above the knee. This was to make it easier for a man to charge at a full run without his "skirt" flapping around his knees.
The Knight of the Garter award?
A blue garter fell from the leg of Joan of Salisbury while she was dancing with King Edward III on April 23, 1349. Some of the surrounding courtiers smiled, apparently in Schadenfreude,because they took it for an emblem of witchcraft, for which Joan could have been put to death. But Edward astounded them by putting the garter around his own knee and declaring "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Shame on whoever thinks there is evil in it.)Today the Order of the Garter, represented by a blue band with those Norman French words on it, is the highest award an English Knight can receive, as a mark of special acknowledgment by the Monarch.There is a link below to a Wikipedia article on the Knights of the Garter, which includes a picture of their badge.
Why did bowing and curtsy start?
The even more difficult question(s) why, or for what, social beings (started to) do reverences, coud be kept in mind (as a reference). Some people thimk, that they - or we, e.g. as womanhood, manlind etc. - don't have many/better gestures (behaviorems) to show, up to feel, dedication and respect (in one) to others, themselves, things and so on. And not just a few people used and use forms they are expetes or forced to. The difference of bowing the head oder upper boddy, now called 'bow' - and of bowing a/the knee/s (for longer or shorter, comp. 'curt[e]sy') wasn't and is not always clearly correlated to sexes. But social gender 'seperation' - rather discrimantion of females - in and since European baroque age 'started' the custom to understand bows - but not (or no longer) of knees - as typical male, and even emancipated, gestures.
What did the Roman Charioteers wear?
Originally there were two factions (teams) of charioteers (aurigae) who wore red and white respectively. Red was sacred to Mars or summer and white was sacred to the Zephyrs or winter. Later two more factions were created. They wore green and blue respectively. Green was dedicated to Mother Earth or spring and blue was dedicated to the sky and sea or autumn. The emperor Domitian introduced two new factions, the Purples and the Golds, but they were discontinued after his death. The aurigae wore died tunics. They wound strips of leather or linen around their legs and arms as protection. Tight strips of leather wrapped their torso and were laced up on the chest as protection from the reigns. Four quite heavy reigns were wrapped around the torso, just above the waist. The helmets were made of felt or leather.
