Nicknames for Demi: | Edit. Share what you know! Meanings and history of the name Demi: | Edit. This name first gained wide attention through the actress Demi Moore, who used it as a short form of her full name, Demetria. It is now being used as an independent name.
In Western fashion history, it's men who are the innovators, and women pick up bits and pieces of it as men abandon them. Women didn't really start wearing pants or trousers in public until the 1930s or so, revealing at least the shape of their lower bodies for the first time. Practicality really isn't high on the list of reasons why people wear the things they do.
A study of clothing lice in 2003 led by Mark Stoneking, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, estimated humans first began wearing clothes about 107,000 years ago.iew. comments. Research into the DNA of lice has found man started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago - 100,000 years before he migrated to colder climates. Man started wearing clothes 170,000 years ago enabling him to successfully migrate out of Africa, according to a new study following the evolution of lice.