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Historical Fashions
YGK These Historical Fashions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A tall, conical hat worn by ladies in the mid- to late 15th century, often depicted with fine silk draping down from the top | Hennin |
| The two main styles of head coverings for upper-class women in the 16th century, often seen in portraits of Henry VIII's wives | Gable hood and French hood |
| The type of hood popular in England that had a quasi-pentagonal, angled shape and covered most of the head | Gable hood |
| The type of hood more popular in France that curved backward atop the head to expose much of the hair | French hood |
| The French king whose baldness in the 1620s popularized the men's wig (peruke) | Louis XIII |
| The British monarch who brought the continental wig fashion to Britain during the Restoration | Charles II |
| The two chief reasons the male wig fell out of fashion in the 1800s | A severe tax on wig powder (1795) and the rise of populist republics (America and France) |
| The two types of Scottish kilts, one an immense garment that wraps around the shoulder, the other waist-only | Great kilt and small kilt |
| The Act passed after the Jacobite Rising of 1745 that banned the kilt for four decades in Scotland | Dress Act |
| The monarch whose public wearing of a kilt in the 1820s revived the fashion and led to its heavy romanticization | George IV |
| The slim-waisted, bell-shaped silhouette created by layering underskirts in the 1840s, named after a common fabric | Crinoline |
| The rigid, light, lattice-like underskirt patented in 1856 that made crinoline affordable for all social classes | Cage crinoline |
| The accessory that replaced the super-wide crinoline in the 1870s, which extended only from the backside | Bustle |
| The ideal body shape achieved through very tight cinching of whalebone corsets in the mid-19th century | Wasp waist |
| The American ideal associated with the ubiquity of the corset at the turn of the century | Gibson girl |
| The social changes that caused the corset to vanish from everyday dress | World War I (WWI) |
| The alternatives to corsets proposed by first-wave feminists, known by this collective name | Reform dress |
| The American feminist who advocated for the loose feminine trouser suit known by her name | Amelia Jenks Bloomer |
| The term for impetuous young women of the 1910s–1930s who wore short skirts and bobbed hair, chiefly an American phenomenon | Flappers |
| The designer of the bikini, named after the atoll where the U.S. held atomic bomb tests | Louis Reard |
| The actress who helped the bikini gain mainstream acceptance when she wore an iconic white one in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962) | Ursula Andress |
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