History of Men's Fashion

It is believed that men first decorated their bodies with chalk from soft rocks in order to camouflage themselves when hunting. They soon discovered that this chalk could be used in creative ways to enhance their appearance. Tribes in Africa still use similar methods to decorate their bodies. The particular markings on their skin identify their tribe.

While hunting and fishing, men discovered that shells and other semi precious stones could be worn both to enhance their appearance and to identify their tribe. This brought about the first jewelry.

Men would have had long hair during much of the caveman era as cutting implements were not yet designed as our current day scissors. Long hair and many hairstyles were very stylish for men during the fifteen hundreds through the late eighteen hundreds.

Earrings for men are not new. During the nineteen eighties, it appeared that earrings for men were becoming popular and the majority of Americans believed that this was a new phenomena. The truth is that men have pierced their ears since tribal times. In Africa, there are many men with pierced ears and long dangling earrings.

Stockings became fashionable during the reign of the Roman Empire. The Romans shortened their armored skirts and wrapped their exposed legs in stockings. There were different versions of socks worn well before the existence of the Roman Empire.