Fashion, design & style
The “A history of fashion” quiz — Fashion, design & style. It has 25 questions in five categories: Royal courts, Shape & structure, Fashion revolutions, Threads & dyes, Iconic details. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which British monarch popularized the white wedding dress across the globe when she married Prince Albert in 1840?
Which French monarch, the Sun King, decreed that only favored nobles could wear shoes with red heels at Versailles?
Which Parisian dressmaker to…
In the gameWhich Regency dandy replaced…
In the gameWhat historic edicts regulated…
In the gameWhat is the stiffened undergarment that used whalebone or steel stays to cinch the waist and reshape the torso?
What is this dome-shaped frame of flexible steel hoops that gave Victorian skirts massive volume without petticoats?
Deriving its name from…
In the gameWhat pointed medieval shoes…
In the gameWhat is this Venetian…
In the gameBritish designer Mary Quant named which revolutionary 1960s garment after her favourite compact car?
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented sturdy work trousers with copper rivets in 1873, creating what wardrobe staple?
What was the name…
In the gameDepicted here in working…
In the gameWhich ankle-narrowed garment prompted…
In the gameHarvested from moth cocoons, which luxurious natural textile gave its name to the ancient trade route to the East?
The 1940 commercial debut of stockings made from which DuPont synthetic fiber sparked massive department store crowds?
Ancient dyers extracted the…
In the gameAccidentally created from coal…
In the gamePictured with its chain…
In the gameMade from beaver felt and later silk, which tall, flat-crowned hat became the defining headwear of Victorian gentlemen?
Taking its name from 17th-century Croatian cavalrymen, which neck accessory was the ancestor of the modern necktie?
What is this pleated…
In the gamePadded and prominent in…
In the gameWhat is this tall…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.