Amadeus – No Zippers Yet
This period film from 1984 is the biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musical genius was alive and active in the 1700s. However, if you look closely, you can see the dancers wearing clothes with zippers. Actually, people only started using zippers about one hundred years after Mozart had already passed away.
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The Color Purple – No Clip-On Ties Yet
Starring Danny Glover, the movie The Color Purple tells the stories of African American women that lived in the south in the early 20th century. In the film, Glover can be seen sporting a clip-on tie, which were invented in 1928. The movie, however, is set in the year 1916.