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Fashion 103 Chapter One; Review Questions 1. On what kinds of physical evidence do scholars base their knowledge of textiles and clothing items that were used in prehistoric periods? From written text, imprints, sculptures, bone structures, and art.

2. Provide examples from modern-day dress to illustrate some of the various functions of dress discussed in this chapter. Four basic motivations for wearing clothes; decoration, protection, modesty, and status. Decoration being common both back then and now.

3. What might account for similarities in the lines, shapes, proportions, and/or decorations of costume and furniture or architecture created at the same period of time? The climate, zeitgeist, culture, and technology limitations.

4. What is a cultural mixture? What is cultural authentication? How do these concepts relate to cross-cultural influences in dress? Cultural mixture is styles that incorporate components from several cultures. Cultural Authentication is to identify the process “whereby elements of dress of one culture are incorporated into the dress of another”. These days lots of cultural clothing has been modernized and paired with others of its kind.

5. Define the word fashion. How does fashionable dress differ from folk dress?

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Fashionable dress can go out of style, whereas folk dress is for honouring past traditions and identifying yourself as a member of a region or community.

6. What are the difficulties the costume historian encounters in studying the costume of periods before written records were abundant? They mostly had to go off of what they discovered.

7. What are some of the difficulties in using works of art as a source for the study of costume information? It’s not always true to life. Artists can emphasize or exaggerate certain aspects, as well as people would typically dress nicer than they would in their daily life if they are having a portrait of them painted.

8. Describe the kinds of sources that could be used by a person researching the dress worn by people of a historic period of the past. What are the obstacles the researcher might have to face? Paintings, sculptures, text, and photographs. The problem with this is that sometimes things are not dated properly, or are assumptions of how they think that era dressed.

9. What is meant by the word “theme” as it is used in this chapter? List the themes identified in this chapter. Identify examples from the discussion of the functions of dress that illustrate the themes relating to social behaviour. Theme is an re-occuring idea or underlying concept. Conflict, Historical Background, Medias of Communication, etc.

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Chapter One; Introduction Questions 1. According to the textbook, why do people wear clothes? (p. 1-2) Four basic motivations for wearing clothes; decoration, protection, modesty, and status.

2. What are the limits to the design of clothes? (p. 2-3) Current technology, gender/social roles, climates, and culture.

3. Explain (in your own words) what theme means as it is being used in the book. (p. 3) Something that ties the main ideas together, and occurs often.

4. List five themes presented in Chapter 1 and give examples from current fashion (p. 3-10) Media of Communication- With many platforms of social media, fashion is easier to access than ever before. Mixtures- Things that were traditionally cultural, transformed into daily wear, such as kimono wraps. Lifestyles- Someone who is active is going to wear different clothing than someone who typically stays at home. Conflict- Can affect supply and demand for certain things Politics- Affects how conservative a country can be

5. How does this book define fashion? (p. 8) A taste shared by many for a short period of time. Not limited to clothing, can also include furniture, cars, and houses.

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6. If you were researching historic costume, list five kinds of sources you could consult. (p. 9-10) Sculptures, paintings, and sometimes written records. Jewelry, buttons, pins or decorations can also be found. Rarely fabric.

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