Fashion quiz 1

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Fashion quiz 1    

What was the main textile that has been preserved from ancient Egyptian fashion?

1. Linen
2. Cotton
3. Silk

In prehistoric graves, linen is often found.

What is the name given to silk production?

1. silkculture
2. sericulture
3. wormculture

Silk has been a traditionally important textile in Asian cultures, and silkworm production has been historically significant there.

Every weaving technique now known had been discovered in China by what time?

1. 200 B.C.E.
2. 220 C.E.
3. 1400 B.E.

The Chinese had mastered textiles extremely early.

What color clothing is often worn in Korean culture?

1. Red
2. Purple
3. White

By 600 C.E., white clothing appears to have signifiance in Korean life.

Sari, dhoti, loincloth

The loincloth-like dhoti and the women's sari can be found how far back in Hindu culture?

1. 200 C.E.
2. 200 B.C.E.
3. 500 C.E.

The clothes are still a part of Hindu dress.

What are sumptuary dress laws?

1. laws controlling who made clothes
2. laws that tried to control spending on clothes or fashions
3. laws for controlling modesty in dress

For instance, in 212 B.C.E., Roman law forbid women from wearing more than half an ounce of gold.

The Roman emperor Tiberius forbid men from wearing what?

1. high-heeled shoes
2. silk
3. colour green

In the 1st century C.E., Tiberius thought only women should wear such a soft fabric.

Tiberius wasn't the only one. In 14th century England, who was allowed to wear fur?

1. only those who ranked as knights (or above)
2. the royal Family
3. only peasants

King Edward III didn't like the idea of poor people wearing the same clothes as him, perhaps.

Russia's Tsar Peter I was even more restrictive. What did he decree?

1. men must shave their beards
2. everyone had to wear Western clothes
3. both

As a way to modernize the country, Peter the Great declared everyone baby-faced and European-styled.

Native Americans often used animal skins for clothing. How did they condition and soften the leather?

1. the oils of the animal's brains
2. stomping on it for hours at a time
3. leaving it in water for days

The oils of the animals were used to make the skins soft and workable.

Classical Greek dress was often personalized how?

1. different styles of draping or pleating
2. length of the outfit
3. colour

The himation (a toga-like garment) in Greek culture could be worn many different ways and gave the wearer a distinct style despite its ubiquitousness.

Who was the first designer and couterier to create collections and sew a name into clothing?

1. Paul Poiret
2. Coco Chanel
3. Charles Frederick Worth

Worth became a haute couture pioneer.

Haute couture translates to what in English?

1. correct sewing
2. high fashion
3. pretty shirts

Custom-fitted clothes made particulary for the wearer is referred to as haute couture en francais.

By what time had fashion become more global, and less about nationalistic or regional dress?

1. 1600
2. 1800
3. 1900

By the 19th century, Western fashion followed international trends as opposed to regional.

By the 19th century, women's fashion was largely a product of what nation?

1. France
2. England
3. U.S.

The French style was considered the most fashionable.

19th century men's trends tended to stem from what nation?

1. America
2. France
3. England

In contrast, men's fashion was based on English trends.