CBSE Notes, Lectures

CBSE - History - Clothing: A Social History

Clothing: A Social History

Short Answer Type

How did the conservatives react against the movement for the national dress reform in US? 

1. The reformers did not immediately succeed in changing social values.

2. They had to face ridicule and hostility. Conservatives everywhere opposed change.

3. They lamented that women who gave up traditional norms of dressing no longer looked beautiful, and lost their femininity and grace.  

4. Faced with persistence attacks, many women reformers changed back into  traditional clothes to conform to conservatives 

.