Fashioning The future

Question 1

‘Fashioning the Future’ exhibits costumes from the _____ through the ______ century

Answer 1

18th - 20th

Question 2

Flashing the Future exhibit demonstrates how we ________ past styles, silhouettes, and design elements in fashionable dress

Answer 2

Revive

Question 3

As you study the Fashioning the Future exhibition, the revival styles displayed are not strict replications but ________ of historic clothing with a new twist

Answer 3

Variations

Question 4

Creative reinterpretations of historical styles are more an ________ of a design than a direct copy

Answer 4

Evolution

Question 5

The new garments of historical style reflect changes in ______ and influences of new _______ that affect our lives

Answer 5

Society

Technology

Question 6

What are the 3 themes of the exhibition?

Answer 6

Classical
14th-16th Century
Elizabethan Artificiality

Question 7

The garments in this exhibition were chosen to represent ______ dress styles, not _______ dress

Answer 7

Fashionable

Fancy

Question 8

The _______ borrowed from the Greeks

Answer 8

Romans

Question 9

The _________ style had begun to emerge in art and literature in he late 70s

Answer 9

Postmodern

Question 10

Why did classical style of dress (Greek and Roman) and antique hairstyles continued to be revived in the 18th century?

Answer 10

The reverence given to classical art, architecture, literature, philosophy and rhetoric in the early development of universities and colleges throughout Europe

Question 11

Why did classical style of dress (Greek and Roman) and antique hairstyles continued to be revived in the late 18th-19th century?

Answer 11

The express their aesthetic (ideal beauty as simple and natural) of political (equality and democracy)

Question 12

The most productive designer of court masques in the 17th century

Answer 12

Inigo Jones

Question 13

Collector of antique sculpture in the 17th century

Answer 13

Earl of Arundel

Question 14

It was in during the 18th century that _______ dress became the inspiration for women’s high fashion

Answer 14

Classical

Question 15

It was in during the ______ century that classical dress became the inspiration for women’s high fashion

Answer 15

18th

Question 16

________ inspired dress had always assumed the role of timelessness, for it was considered somewhat _______

Answer 16

Classical

Exotic

Question 17

Philosopher who set the stage for a gradual acceptance of the classical style as a fashionable garment to wear in public

Answer 17

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 18

Rousseau _________ dress reflected desired attributes of the domestic role

Answer 18

Classical

Question 19

Many ______ century moralists believed unhealthy dress was immoral because adherence to their dictates often caused ________ hardship

Answer 19

18th

Economic

Question 20

Used simplicity as one of his art principles in the 18th century

Answer 20

William Hogarth

Question 21

The 18th century is known as the age of __________

Answer 21

Neoclassicism

Question 22

This Greek god was the most popular classical subject for artists

Answer 22

Venus (Aphrodite)

Question 23

The discoveries of the ancient Roman cities of ________ and ________ peaked interest in the classical world during the 18th century

Answer 23

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Question 24

German Archeologist who believed that modern artist during the 18th century could arrive at principles of true beauty by studying Greek sculpture

Answer 24

Johann Joachim Winklemann

Question 25

French artist who was indirectly influenced by Winklemann and responsible for the infusion of the classical style in France

Answer 25

Jacques Louis David

Question 26

1st president of the Academy of Art in England

Answer 26

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Question 27

The Royal Academy of Art in England was established in theory for the preservation of __________ ideals

Answer 27

Neoclassical

Question 28

At the height of the French revolution, men wisely chose a style known as _________, which consisted of garments closely linked to the dress of an English country gentleman

Answer 28

Sans-culottes

Question 29

Classical inspirations for men in the 18th century were seen in the hair style __________ or _________

Answer 29

Á la Titus or Brutus

Question 30

In the 18th century in France, classical garment for men appeared in the designs for “a national costume based on ________”

Answer 30

Reason

Question 31

Napoleons requested this designer to create new designs for government officials

Answer 31

Carle Vernet

Question 32

Acceptance of the classical style of dress for women occurred in France after women had adopted the looser ________ which was introduced by the English in the _______

Answer 32

Chemise

1770s

Question 33

After the fall of the Jacobins, during the Directory, elegant fashionable women adopted very skimpy ______ dress

Answer 33

Classical

Question 34

In France, classically inspired dress continued to be worn into the 2nd decade of the ______ century, after which women slowly returned to heavily boned bodices and cinched waists which prevailed until the end of the ______ century

Answer 34

19th

19th

Question 35

Were women well supported under revealing classical gowns during the 18th century although

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

Did advocates of women’s clothing reform have diverse interest and political agendas

Answer 36

Yes

Question 37

What 3 things did reform dress include

Answer 37

Different styles of trousers

More rational underwear

Artistic gowns based on classical dress

Question 38

T/F

Not all reformers want to improve women’s health

Answer 38

False

Question 39

2 Physical education reformers of the 19th century

Answer 39

Catherine Beecher and Dio Lewis

Question 40

Notes physician and health reformer who advocated for creating more rational underwear for women during the late 1800s

Answer 40

John Kellogg

Question 41

Company that began offering classically inspired artistic reform gowns in 1884. They had well established shops in Paris and other cities as well as numerous depots for their fabric

Answer 41

The Liberty Company

Question 42

T/F

There were dress reform departments in large stores during the 20th century in Europe

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Used wool or silk jersey to create timeless pleated and draped evening gowns which are often cited as perfect examples of neo-classicism in fashion

Answer 43

Madame Grés (real name - Germaine Barton)

Question 44

Historicism occurs in history, and is reflected in society’s cultural milieux of _______ and _______

Answer 44

Literature and art

Question 45

An art that had its beginnings in the late 19th century. It was a reaction against the traditional religious, mythical, historical, and literary matters of fine art. It became streamlined and abstract

Answer 45

Modern art

Question 46

The revived importance of meaning and content in art, as well as a return to traditional subject matter and relativism

Answer 46

Post modern era

Question 47

A period of wide diversity of styles, with no as yet discernible centralizing theme

Answer 47

Post modern

Question 48

The Greek himation was a large rectangular-shaped outer garment usually draped over the shoulder and was the inspiration for the Roman ______

Answer 48

Toga

Question 49

Reason was the key idea of ________

Answer 49

Enlightenment

Question 50

After the revolution in America and France near the end of the 18th century, simpler styles of clothing based on _______ and ______ ideals of beauty and _________ emerged

Answer 50

Greek and Roman

Democracy

Question 51

Early 20th century fashions experienced a classical revival, influenced by ______ ______ dress and its philosophy of beauty based on the Greek classical ideal

Answer 51

Artistic reform

Question 52

What are the 3 design styles of Greece

Answer 52

Peplos
Chiton
Himation

Question 53

Extensive use of ______ for outergarment linings or edge trim was common in northern regions of Europe during the 14th-16th centuries

Answer 53

Fur

Question 54

15th century technique produced by cutting into the edges of a garment 1in-2in, producing a scalloped, foliate, or crenelated effect. It mimicked the tops of castle turrets. It was most often located around the hems of hoods, sleeves and garments

Answer 54

Dagging

Question 55

15th century technique initiated by the Swiss in which seams of garments remain open, exposing colorful linings or undergarments

Answer 55

Slashing

Question 56

_______ variations contributed to the creation of distinctive dress from the 14th-16th centuries

Answer 56

Sleeve

Question 57

What 3 design elements appeared frequently in fashionable dress throughout the 19th century

Answer 57

Neo-medieval

Neo-gothic

Italian renaissance

Question 58

________ and ________ styles were again revived for the artistic dress movement of the late 19th century, and continued as an influence into the 1st decades of the 20th century

Answer 58

Medieval and Renaissance

Question 59

A revival of ______-style clothing constructed of stretch velvets and velours in designer collections for the Fall 1993 fashion season continued the historicism into the post modern decades

Answer 59

Gothic

Question 60

The variety of historical periods visited by fashionable dress during the last two decades of the 20th century reflect the span of _______ _______ historical dress rather than one specific era

Answer 60

Western European

Question 61

The era of fashionable clothing styles worn in Western Europe between 1520-1620 that consisted of stiff and contrived forms alien to the natural shape of the human body

Answer 61

The Reformation and Elizabethan England

Question 62

The ensuing rivalries between England, France, and Spain in addition the religious rift created by the Reformation was reflected in an artistic style that was both ________ and _______

Answer 62

Repressed and contrived

Question 63

During the Elizabethan era, the bodies of ______ and ______ were distorted from the natural human form by fashionable apparel

Answer 63

Men and women

Question 64

The extremely padded and broad-shouldered silhouettes of Henry VIII were later revived in the sleeves of _______ dresses, which were themselves revived in women’s sleeves of the 1890s

Answer 64

1830s

Question 65

A form of hooped petticoat that formed the conical shapes of women’s skirts, bodices, and sleeves during the 16th and early 17th century

Answer 65

Farthingales

Question 66

Men’s jackets that were padded in the chest, a style that would be revived in men’s clothing in the mid 19th century

Answer 66

Doublets

Question 67

Pocket hoops that artificially hold a gown out at the sides. Worn during the mid to late 18th century

Answer 67

Panniers

Question 68

Drawstrings forming a bustle with 3 divisions that pulled up trailing hems of late 18th century gowns

Answer 68

A la polonaise

Question 69

After the mid and late 18th century, distended and contrived body shapes did not resurface again until the _____ _______ century

Answer 69

Mid 19th century

Question 70

The distended skirts and crinolines of the mid 19th century and the bell-shaped pagoda sleeves mirrored styles worn during the ______ era and the hoop petticoat of the ______ century

Answer 70

Elizabethan

18th

Question 71

Many of the decorative details of the wide skirts from the 2nd Empire of France were based on ________ layering and festooning

Answer 71

Rococo

Question 72

The drapery of the skirt bustles of the 1870s and 1880s mirrored the ________ dresses from a century earlier

Answer 72

Polonaise