When you think of the phenomenal popularity of pets dressed in Halloween costumes, you can thank internet memes, iPhones, Instagram, Amazon, and Etsy. They make it easy to find the most clever costumes and share them with everyone. But the fun of seeing animals dressed in clothing goes much further back. We know that Harry Whittier Frees made a living dressing up cats 100 years ago, because his photographs are still around. The practice of dressing up pets is still much older.
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During the excavation of the tomb of King Cuo of Zhongshan, who was king of China from 327 to 309 BC, archeologists found two large dogs buried in jeweled collars. The greyhound of Louis XI, king of France from 1423 to 1483, wore a red velvet collar with 20 pearls and 11 rubies, and Louis’s successor, Charles VIII, had robes made for his dog and marmot, according to Medieval Pets. Queen Victoria dressed her dog in a “scarlet jacket and blue trousers,” as she wrote in her diaries, right around the time that dog couture shops became a thing in Paris.
There were plenty of other milestones in the custom of dressing up our pets in costumes, as you’ll see at Vox.
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