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Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years ago, you c
Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years ago, you c
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2023-12-17
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Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as ten years ago, you cannot help being struck by the appearance of the women taking part. Their hair-styles and make-up look dated; their skirts look either too long or too short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous. The men taking part in the film, on the other hand, are clearly recognizable. There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entirely different age.
This illusion is created by changing fashions. Over the year, the great majority of men have successfully resisted all attempts to make them change their style of dress. The same cannot be said for women. Each year a few so-called top designers in Paris or London lay down the law and women in the whole world over rush to obey. The decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial. This year, they decide in their arbitrary fashion: skirts will be short and waists will be high; zips are in and buttons are out. Next year the law is reversed and far from taking exception, no one is even mildly surprised.
If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they shudder at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are annually black-mailed by the designers and the big stores. Clothes, which have been worn, only a few times have to he discarded because of the dictates of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more than the deliberate creation of waste. Many women squander vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women, who cannot afford to discard clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Hem-limes are taken up or let down; waist-lines are taken in or let out; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.
No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, providing they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shivering in a flimsy dress on a wintry day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in dainty shoes.
When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of fickleness and instability? Men are too sensible to let themselves be bullied by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide. [br] The main idea of this passage is ______.
选项
A、new fashions in clothes reflect the qualities of women
B、new fashions in clothing are created solely for commercial exploitation of women
C、the top designers seem to have the right to creating new fashion
D、men have the basic quality of reliability
答案
B
解析
创制新时装就是对妇女的商业性剥削。答案遍及全文。也有几段突出描述。如:第二段第四句“每年,巴黎、伦敦的一些所谓的高级设计师定出条条框框,全世界妇女竞相服从。设计师的条令难以预测,说一不二。”第三段“要说妇女年年被无情的剥削之事,只能怪她们自己。由于她们一想起在公共场所穿着过时的衣服就会发抖,所以他们每年都被设计师和大商店讹诈(勒索)……”第四段:“许多妇女 (每年)浪费大笔钱财来置换她们从未穿过的服装,时装变化就是故意创造浪费。”
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