Expression :Fashion as Design(Fashion as Design) Answers 2026

Question 1

Who were the pachucas?

❌ A Polo Ralph Lauren-loving crew in Brooklyn, New York
✅ A rebel subculture of Mexican-American teenagers who protested mass deportation (1929–1944)
❌ Designers who popularized the slip dress in the 1990s

Question 2

The Lo-Life Crew wore smaller sizes of Ralph Lauren clothing so that it fit tighter than intended.

❌ False
✅ True

Question 3

Which designer(s) fostered the re-emergence of the slip dress in the United States in the late 1990s? (Select all that apply)

✅ Giorgio Armani
✅ Calvin Klein
✅ Donna Karan
❌ Yves Saint Laurent

Question 4

Hari Nef suggests which of the following about gender and clothes? (Select all that apply)

❌ Fashion is not fertile ground for discussing gender
✅ A woman can gain a sustainable sense of power from wearing a man’s suit
✅ Looking beyond clothes to personality may be better than escaping the gender binary through fashion

Question 5

Because of cotton rationing during the war effort, bandanna production halted and bandannas became rare.

❌ False
✅ True

Question 6

The graphic T-shirt was first used to promote tourist destinations beginning in which decade?

❌ 1940s
❌ 1950s
✅ 1960s
❌ 1970s

Question 7

People wear lapel pins to indicate: (Select all that apply)

✅ Political allegiance
✅ Group membership
✅ Activism
✅ Commemoration
❌ All of the above

Question 8

Which item has been adopted by both skinheads and punks?

❌ Poppy lapel pin
✅ Dr. Martens
❌ Nike Air Force 1

Question 9

Kente is traditionally worn wrapped on both men and women.

✅ True
❌ False

Question 10

Why did Asher Levine embed an LED lighting system into his Biker Jacket? (Select all that apply)

✅ Expand expressive possibilities of the traditional biker jacket
❌ Embrace the traditional biker jacket aesthetic only
❌ Emblazon the jacket with advertisements
✅ Create a traffic signaling system to improve rider visibility and safety

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