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Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Who used cloth as a symbolic weapon against the British rule?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Babasaheb Ambedkar

  3. Sarojini Naidu

  4. Kamala Nehru
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Mahatma Gandhi famously used khadi and the spinning wheel as symbolic weapons of resistance against British economic dominance and colonial rule.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Radical changes in women's clothing were enabled by ______.

  1. The new governments

  2. The women's movements

  3. The world wars

  4. The Industrial revolution
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C Correct answer
Explanation

With the outbreak of World War I in Europe, the manufacturing in dress and fabric changed. With the entry of the U.S in war, the clothing of women was simplified to save textiles. Earlier women used to wear heavy clothes and had bulky wardrobes. Wool became a precious commodity and was reserved for soldiers to send abroad. Sweaters, socks were knitted for soldiers.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

 Why were the Shanar women attacked by Nairs in May 1822?

  1. They refused to do work of Nair families.

  2. They began to wear dress covering upper part of their bodies.

  3. They used bad Languages for the Nairs.

  4. They were attacked unnecessarily.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Shanar women were attacked because they began wearing jackets to cover their upper bodies, which challenged the social norms and caste hierarchies of the Nairs.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

From 1294 to 1789 people of France strictly followed which of the following?

  1. Parliamentary laws

  2. Republican laws

  3. Sumptuary laws

  4. Revenue laws
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Sumptuary laws were regulations that restricted consumption and dictated what different social classes were allowed to wear or purchase based on their rank.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

The existing dress codes in Europe were swept away by ________.

  1. American Revolution

  2. French Revolution

  3. Russia Revolution

  4. The First World War
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The French Revolution transformed many aspects of social and political life. The revolution also swept away existing dress codes, known as the sumptuary laws. The laws tried to control the behaviour of those considered social inferiors, preventing them from wearing certain clothes, consuming certain foods and beverages (usually this referred to alcohol) and hunting game in certain areas. 

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

The simplicity of clothing of 'Sans-Culottes' was meant to express __________________.

  1. the poverty among the common people

  2. the prosperity of textile industries

  3. the idea of equality

  4. none of the above
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C Correct answer
Explanation

 Members of the Jacobin clubs called themselves the ‘sans culottes’ to distinguish themselves from the aristocracy who wore the fashionable ‘knee breeches’. Sans culottes literally meant those ‘without knee breeches’.  The simplicity of clothing was meant to express the idea of equality.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

The National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association during 1870 campaigned for which reform? Choose the appropriate one.

  1. Suffrage reforms

  2. Dress reforms

  3. Political reforms

  4. Parliamentary reforms
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B Correct answer