首页
登录
职称英语
Until the end of the 18th century, it was men who lavished attention on th
Until the end of the 18th century, it was men who lavished attention on th
游客
2023-11-14
39
管理
问题
Until the end of the 18th century, it was men who lavished attention on their feet. Louis XIV wore high heeled mules to show off his shapely legs; his courtiers adorned their figures and feet with feathers, pink silk, lace, and jewels; even in colonial American, men fussed with their wigs and the bows and buttons on their shoes. The end of that foppery, called "the great renunciation" by historians, coincided with an epochal shift in politics and society, toward democracy, industry, and reason, away from the aristocracy with its affectations that spoke of rank, parasitism and, to the modem eyes, effeminacy.
Women’s fashion is now, some believe, at the turning point of similar magnitude, coinciding with the equally dramatic social transformation of the past several decades. The change has been slow: a century long move away from the padding, corseting, and decoration that made a woman into a kind of ornate bauble(小摆设) and displayed her family’s wealth, and toward the clean, sleek modern lines first introduced with the suffrage movement.
But the shift has accelerated in recent years, thanks to changes in the technology and business of fashion. The use by top designers of "weird, fabulous, unrecognizable synthetics," says Hollander "has ruined the status of certain fabrics, like linen, which has had a leveling effect for the sexes and for’ the classes." And the emergence of chains like Club Monaco means that "forward looking style is disseminated very fast and very cheaply," according to Valerie Steele, a historian and curator of "Shoes: A Lexicon of Style," an exhibition now on view at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Such stores have succeeded, she believes, because "there’s substantial group of people with a sophisticated eye for design" who are eager for an affordable version of what was once thought to be "dog-whistle fashion," pitched so high that only a few would get it. Against that back-ground, the shoes at FIT look like fashion’s last gasp. The exhibit begins with the most symbolically loaded of women’s shoes: high heels, which Steele calls "a prime symbol of women’s sexual power over men."
That same defiance of feminine expectations is visible throughout the FIT show: in the boot, for instance, with its connotations of machismo and. military power, or the androgynous oxford, made girlisl with a big chunky heel. The show ends, fittingly, with the sneaker. No longer simply a downscale kid wear item, the big, brilliantly colored, high-tech sneaker has become one of the today’s most dramatic fashion statements, asserting street hip and futuristic velocity. Maybe shoes aren’t so indifferent to the changes in modem lives, after all. [br] The end of men’s lavish attention to fashion marks
选项
A、great political and social changes.
B、aristocracy.
C、social ranks.
D、the great renunciation.
答案
A
解析
细节题。文中第l段末句评论到:这种时尚(即穿鞋的浮夸风气)的结束反映了当时政治、社会的划时代转变。故正确答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3186816.html
相关试题推荐
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
【C1】______somenineteenthcenturyNewYorkerssaid"Harlem",theymeantalmo
随机试题
[originaltext]AlthoughHenryFord’snameiscloselyassociatedwiththecon
ThefolkpaintingsofGrandmaMoseswere______theworksofthetrainedartists
AddictedtotheNet?SymptomsofInternetaddiction
丝绸之路不仅仅是古代国际贸易路线,更是连接亚洲、非洲、欧洲的文化桥梁。TheSilkRoadwasnotonlyanancientinterna
观察者因看到榜样受到强化而如同自己也受到强化一样,这称为( )。A.外部强化
A.再生障碍性贫血B.巨幼细胞性贫血C.珠蛋白生成障碍性贫血D.急性失血性贫血E
唐代诗人李商隐曾在诗中写道:“镂金作胜传荆俗,剪彩为人起晋风。”这句诗描绘的是中
蒋某是C市某住宅小区6栋3单元502号房业主,入住后面临下列法律问题,请根据相关
无铰链区的免疫球蛋白是A.IgG、IgD B.IgA、IgG C.IgG、I
某企业为增值税一般纳税人,2019年6月5日购入材料一批,价款20
最新回复
(
0
)