Emmy Clarke. Emmy Clarke Brief Biography. Mary Elizabeth Clarke (born September 25, 1991 in Mineola, New York), better known as Emmy Clarke, is an American actress. At the age of one Clarke moved with her parents to Houston, Texas. At age 6 she moved to Woking, England, where she attended TASIS England before moving to New York City at age 11.
Confidence votes 3. Many fashion historians believe that the thong first appeared in the 1939 World's Fair. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ordered the city's nude dancers to cover themselves and the thong was invented to just barely do the job.ashion designer, Rudi Gernreich has been credited with introducing the first thong bikini in 1974. Another reference states that thongs, originally called tangas, first hit the beaches of Brazil in 1977.
The zipper took quite a time to make its mark. It was invented by Whitcomb Judson in 1891, not in its present form as a clothes fastener, but as a device to do up boots. It did not take off until 1918, when the U.S. Navy realized that Judson's invention would make an ideal fastener for flying suits. The name zipper, coined in 1926, clinched its success.