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Clothing used in winter sports must be first and foremost a comfortable, lightweight and warm. • Thermoactive underwear: Produced from specially designed synthetic knits that have the ability to efficiently discharge of sweat and water vapor of skin, leaving it dry even during intense physical activity. • Sweatshirt: The second layer, …

    MAESTRO DEL BIGALLO – MIRACLE FOR THE DEMON POSSESSED MAN (PART OF THE ST. ZENOBI FIGURE, FROM 13th CENTURY) – MUSEO DELL’OPERA DEL DUOMO, FLORENCE   In its soft linearity, the clothing of the second half of the 13th century obtains simple results yet perfect elegance. The long …

  This precursor to jeans, practical to wear over one’s normal clothing, also to pretect it, was called overalls. The story tells how Levi Strauss gradually, left his work as a traveling salesman and rationalized the production of overalls, in the form of trousers. Soon they were being mass produced, …

  These “workers” needed durable clothing which would not wear out as fast as the normal trousers of the day. Levi thought the had the right answer, took his tent material and had a local tailor make up a pair of trousers.  The legend goes that the first gold miner …

  AMBONE DI NICCOLO’ SACERDOS ET PROTOMAGISTER (PART.) – YEAR 1229 – CATHEDRAL,  BITONTO   The royal clothing even beyond of the solemn consecration ceremony includes the cape and the crown: over the tunic you can see a sleeveless vest: interesting in the third figure the detail of the belt …