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In the 19th century, where did the British insist Indians to take off their shoes?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. In market places

  2. In court rooms

  3. In their homes

  4. In sacred place

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The British insisted that since Indians took off their shoes when they entered a sacred place or home, they should do so when they entered the courtroom. 

Why did Dalit converts in India adopt western style clothing?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. It was comfortable

  2. It was cheaper

  3. It was a sign of equality and self respect

  4. It was fashionable

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Western clothes were a sign of modernity and progress. Western-style clothing was also especially attractive to groups of dalit converts to Christianity who now found it liberating.

Who was the first Indian to enter civil services ?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Biharilal Gupta

  3. Satyendranath Tagore

  4. R.C. Dutt

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, linguist and made significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj.

In Victorian England why were women from childhood, tightly laced up and dressed in stays?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. Because they were dutiful and docile

  2. Because these clothes helped in creating the expected image of girls

  3. Because women were trained to bear and suffer

  4. Because women looked graceful in these dresses

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 Women in Victorian England were groomed from childhood to be docile and dutiful, submissive and obedient. The ideal woman was one who could bear pain and suffering.  Women were seen as frivolous, delicate, passive and docile. 

Which of the following best explains the sumptuary laws?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. The laws that prohibited wearing short skirt

  2. The laws that declared that silk clothes could not used by peasants

  3. The laws that controlled the behaviour of those considered socially inferiors

  4. The laws that prohibited the socially superiors wearing cotton dresses

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sumptuary law, any law designed to restrict excessive personal expenditures in the interest of preventing extravagance and luxury. The term denotes regulations restricting extravagance in food, drink, dress, and household equipment, usually on religious or moral grounds. Such laws have proved difficult or impossible to enforce over the long term.

Which of the following class could use materials like ermine, fur, and silk in France?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. Royalty

  2. Serfs

  3. Clergy

  4. Commons

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Only royalty could wear expensive materials like ermine and fur, or silk, velvet, and brocade in France. Other classes were debarred from clothing themselves with materials that were associated with the aristocracy. 

The name 'shanar' refers to which of the following?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. A community of toddy tappers in Southern travancore

  2. Peasant community of Northern Travancore

  3. An upper caste community of Andhra Pradesh

  4. A lower caste community of Andhra Pradesh

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Shanar refers to a community of deep south in India as toddy tappers in Travancore region. They make this as their trade and profession.

How did the Bengali bureaucrats of 19th century resolve the conflict between western and lndian clothes?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. They rejected western clothes totally

  2. They wore western clothes for work outside home and Indian clothes at home

  3. They wore western clothes at official functions

  4. They wore Indian clothes at official functions

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Bengali Bureaucrats wore the Indian clothes at home attaching themselves with the feeling of nationalism and connecting with nationalistic feeling and region, on the other hand as they were under the British ton appease them they use to wear western clothes outside on duty.

Which of the following events ended all distinction of dresses worn by different classes in French society ?

social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. French Revolution

  2. Suffrage Movement

  3. Jacobin Rule

  4. Napoleonic Laws

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 Before the French Revolution people in France followed sumptuary laws. These laws restricted the social behaviour of the lower strata of the society and imposed restrictions upon their clothing, food and entertainment. The French Revolution brought an end to these restrictions.  

In America, traditional feminine clothes were criticised on the grounds that ______.
social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

  1. Long skirts swept the ground and collected filth and dirt

  2. The dresses were voluminous and difficult to handle

  3. These dresses were uncomfortable and hampered movement

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D