Quiz #3

Question 1

Tricorne

Answer 1

most famous hat

Question 2

Bertha

Answer 2

type of collar

Question 3

Cavalier (1630s-1640s)

Answer 3

high waist
men have long hair
big brim hat

Question 4

Louis XIV (1680s-1690s)

Answer 4

unstructured lives
wig
tricome hat
chinoiserie
coat introduced
headdress
Mantua
dandelion puffs
simpler clothes
walking dogs in paintings
hedge hog hairstyle
big hats and hairstyles
big BUTTS
fichu
rectangles/squares
classical architecture
printed cotton
stripes, floral stripes
high waistline
sombrero like hat
double breasted coat
chemise a la reine
turquerie a la turque

Question 5

Rococo (1720s-1760s)

Answer 5

wide underskirt
men wore a shorter wig
pockets
C scroll, S scroll
stomacher
robe a la anglaise
american styles
Venetian fashion
cutaway cut
Macaroni
Galerie des modes (fashion mag)
underwear
pleates, ruffles
neck lace

Question 6

French Revolution (1789-1799)

Answer 6

Neoclassism
age of reason
Elizabethan influrence
folding fan
san culottes
most traumatic period
ribbons a la victime
robe en chemise
medici collar
reticule
slash puffs
carmagnole (short jacket)
Phyrgian cap
Stripped hat

Question 7

Empire (1800-1819

Answer 7

narrow skirt
turtleneck
cravat
only wore black
short corset
coat dress
tail coat
men in trousers
skirts shorter
English regency
Big Bonnets
waist under bust
Banyan
transparent
morning dress/cap

Question 8

Mantilla

Answer 8

a lace or silk scarf worn by women over the hair and shoulders, especially in Spain

Question 9

Banyan

Answer 9

Also called a morning gown, robe de chambre or nightgown, the banyan was a loose, T-shaped gown or kimono-like garment, made of cotton, linen, or silk and worn at home as a sort of dressing gown or informal coat over the shirt and breeches.

Question 10

Chinoiserie

Answer 10

the imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century.

Question 11

Jabot

Answer 11

an ornamental frill or ruffle on the front of a shirt or blouse, typically made of lace.

Question 12

Stomacher

Answer 12

a V-shaped piece of decorative cloth, worn over the chest and stomach by men and women in the 16th century, later only by women.

Question 13

Fichu

Answer 13

a small triangular shawl, worn around a woman’s shoulders and neck.

Question 14

(a la) polonaise

Answer 14

a woman’s dress with a tight bodice and a skirt open from the waist downward, looped up to show a decorative underskirt.

Question 15

panier

Answer 15

Panniers or side hoops are women’s undergarments worn in the 17th and 18th centuries to extend the width of the skirts at the side while leaving the front and back relatively flat.

Question 16

Macaroni

Answer 16

in mid-18th-century England was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner.

Question 17

pockets

Answer 17

most women had at least one pair of pockets, which served a similar purpose as a handbag does today.

Question 18

Galerie des modes

Answer 18

vintage fashion magazine

Question 19

neck lace

Answer 19

actual lace around neck

Question 20

robe d’langaise

Answer 20

A close-bodied gown, English nightgown, or robe à l’anglaise was a women’s fashion of the 18th century.

Question 21

san culottes

Answer 21

“without breeches”, referring to the more casual trousers worn by the working classes.

Question 22

cravat

Answer 22

Cravat, the name given to the neck scarf worn by Croatian soldiers in the service of the French army during the reign of Louis XIV. …

Question 23

reticule

Answer 23

a small drawstring bag carried as a purse by a woman in the 18th and early 19th century.

Question 24

carmagnole

Answer 24

The jacket worn by workers.

Question 25

Medici collar

Answer 25

provided a large, decorative frame around the sides and back of a woman’s head.

Question 26

Beau brummel

Answer 26

Brummell was educated at Eton and made his precocious mark on fashion when he not only modernised the white stock, or cravat, only wore black

Question 27

fichu

Answer 27

In eighteenth-century Western fashions, bodices were cut revealingly low, requiring a piece of cloth, known as a fichu, to cover a woman’s chest

Question 28

robe a la turque

Answer 28

type of dolman that is fitted in front, without pleats and very narrow, with a folded-back collar holding to the Gown, and funnel-shapes sleeves.

Question 29

chemise a la reine

Answer 29

loose-fitting gown of sheer white cotton, resembling a chemise in both cut and material,

Question 30

frock coat

Answer 30

have skirts that were nearly circular

Question 31

contouche

Answer 31

“flying gown” developed from the manteau by letting the folds in back fly loose instead of tacking them down.

Question 32

turban

Answer 32

headdress

Question 33

cameo

Answer 33

Worn as a symbol of status by men and women since antiquity,

Question 34

court train

Answer 34

dress with long train, evening dress

Question 35

hedgehog hairstyle

Answer 35

enormous hair full of curls