Fashion Trends and Industry

What is the author least likely to agree with?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.

Fashion, much like the society that it is an integral part of, is an ever evolving organism with many interdependent and complemental roles and myriad rules that are assayed within the framework devised by the numerous constituents of the same. Over the ages, the mindset of allegedly the most intelligent race on the planet has been transfigured sometimes gleefully and with vociferous cries of ayes and at times grudgingly and involuntarily. The movement has sometimes found favor with the teeming multitudes while at others antagonizing a sizable component those that have to be dragged, kicking, screaming and protesting into accepting the writing on the wall about the impermanence of the order of things. What is meat and potatoes for someone turns into over fermented vinegar for others and herein lies both the rub and the beauty of the turn of events. The fifties and sixties were perhaps epitomized by the Wild West, the rough and ready apparel, the Blue Levis, the cocked hat and the loaded gun. People like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Gregory Peck came to be the vanguard of the cowboy tribe, the one of frequent brawls and infrequent baths. The seventies are known as ‘Swinging’ not without a legitimate cause. Suddenly, macho was not the only buzz word and with the advent of psychedelic hued clothes (would not be surprised at all if Hawaiian print shirts- the loud ones-made an appearance during this period), headbands, free and universal love, booze, drugs and aspirations of world peace, the fashion scene changed once again. In the backdrop of the ill-fated Vietnam War, it was the on screen rebels like James Dean, the celluloid Mafia dons like Marlon Brando and Al Pacino that stole the thunder and ruled the roost. Eighties saw the emergence of cult figures like the Ray-Ban adorned Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Clark Kent as Superman- without the shades but with the addition of a cape. It is really surprising that both hot and cool mean similar things at times even when the trusted dictionary tells us that they are locked in mortal combat. Something that is rakish and swank can and does often turn dowdy faster than one can say the magic word - abracadabra! It is really nothing to get one’s knickers in a twist over when a fashion iconoclast like Farah Fawcett Majors is thought of to be so eighties now. The curl, the wave and the bang, made so famous by the Goldilocks evokes now a sigh of nostalgia in some and a whistle of disbelief in others. Alas, fashion, like the divas that represent it on the promenade, can hardly be called the cornerstone of reliability and dependability, changing moods with the speed and the fickleness of the earth changing moods, the chameleon changing colors, and most aptly, like the models who, in the time between one swirl on the stage and the next pirouette, change clothes so fast that one would be forgiven for harboring the belief that Superman must have taken lessons from them.

Which of the following describes the organization of the passage?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.

Fashion, much like the society that it is an integral part of, is an ever evolving organism with many interdependent and complemental roles and myriad rules that are assayed within the framework devised by the numerous constituents of the same. Over the ages, the mindset of allegedly the most intelligent race on the planet has been transfigured sometimes gleefully and with vociferous cries of ayes and at times grudgingly and involuntarily. The movement has sometimes found favor with the teeming multitudes while at others antagonizing a sizable component those that have to be dragged, kicking, screaming and protesting into accepting the writing on the wall about the impermanence of the order of things. What is meat and potatoes for someone turns into over fermented vinegar for others and herein lies both the rub and the beauty of the turn of events. The fifties and sixties were perhaps epitomized by the Wild West, the rough and ready apparel, the Blue Levis, the cocked hat and the loaded gun. People like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Gregory Peck came to be the vanguard of the cowboy tribe, the one of frequent brawls and infrequent baths. The seventies are known as ‘Swinging’ not without a legitimate cause. Suddenly, macho was not the only buzz word and with the advent of psychedelic hued clothes (would not be surprised at all if Hawaiian print shirts- the loud ones-made an appearance during this period), headbands, free and universal love, booze, drugs and aspirations of world peace, the fashion scene changed once again. In the backdrop of the ill-fated Vietnam War, it was the on screen rebels like James Dean, the celluloid Mafia dons like Marlon Brando and Al Pacino that stole the thunder and ruled the roost. Eighties saw the emergence of cult figures like the Ray-Ban adorned Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Clark Kent as Superman- without the shades but with the addition of a cape. It is really surprising that both hot and cool mean similar things at times even when the trusted dictionary tells us that they are locked in mortal combat. Something that is rakish and swank can and does often turn dowdy faster than one can say the magic word - abracadabra! It is really nothing to get one’s knickers in a twist over when a fashion iconoclast like Farah Fawcett Majors is thought of to be so eighties now. The curl, the wave and the bang, made so famous by the Goldilocks evokes now a sigh of nostalgia in some and a whistle of disbelief in others. Alas, fashion, like the divas that represent it on the promenade, can hardly be called the cornerstone of reliability and dependability, changing moods with the speed and the fickleness of the earth changing moods, the chameleon changing colors, and most aptly, like the models who, in the time between one swirl on the stage and the next pirouette, change clothes so fast that one would be forgiven for harboring the belief that Superman must have taken lessons from them.

The word era in line 1 could best be replaced by which of the following words?

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