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Moreno became the president of the Philippine Couture Association, the very first association of fashion designers in Manila, Philippines. He was the fashion designer for the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. His fashion designs were exhibited at the World's Fair in Seattle, Washington, and New York City.
In 1983, Bonas Machine Company Ltd. presented the first computer-controlled, electronic, Jacquard loom. [103] In 1988, the first US patent was awarded for a "pick and place" robot. [ 104 ] Advancements such as these changed the nature of work for machine operators, introducing computer literacy as a skill alongside machine literacy.
The Philippines was under U.S. colonial rule during the time the pensionado program was first put into place. [1] American teachers in the Philippines encouraged Filipino students back home to adopt American styles of fashion and clothing and leave behind traditional Filipino garments. [1]
c. 25000 BC – Venus figurines depicted with clothing. [3] c. 8000 BC – Evidence of flax cultivation in the Near East. [4] c. 6000 BC – Evidence of woven textiles used to wrap the dead at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia. [4] c. 3000 BC – Breeding of domesticated sheep with a wooly fleece rather than hair in the Near East. [4]
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
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In 1965, the Benettons opened their first store in Belluno, in the Veneto region of northern Italy, [3] and three years later, in Paris. The company's core business consists of clothing brands United Colors of Benetton [4] and Sisley. [5] Benetton was an iconic brand in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since struggled to regain this position.
Location of the Philippines. The Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit.