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QUIZ: How much knowledge do you have on the subject of clothing?

Tony Mushoborozi

August 26, 2022 2:32 PM

Test your knowledge of clothes and learn along the way, hopefully.

Clothes

Strides is another name for:

Shoes

Socks

Trousers

Boxers

Trousers Next question

Skirts for Scottish males are called?

Sarong

Culottes

Hoop

Kilt

Kilt Next question

When were trench coats invented

Early 1800s

During World War 1

During World 2

Late 1960s

Early 1800s Next question

In the early 19th century, almost 100 years before World War I, Charles Macintosh crafted coats from rubberised cotton for the British military. Named after their inventor, the trench coat used to be known as 'macs'.

Gladiator sandals owe their design to what kind of ancient game?

Archery

Marathon

Chariot racing

Sword fighting

Sword fighting Next question

Why are they called cargo pants?

They were created for cargo truck drivers

More pocket-space meant more stuff could be carried

People who work with cargo love them

No one knows

More pocket-space meant more stuff could be carried Next question

The Gomesi ceremonial wear was invented by:

Daudi Chwa's wife

And Indian designer

A Gayaza Headmistress

No one knows

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The best scholarship traces the origins of the Gomesi to 1905. The dress was introduced by a Goan designer, Caetano Gomes, then resident in Uganda which was a British Protectorate at the time.

T-shirts first came into the fashion world in the year:

1910

1930

1945

1954

1910 Next question

In 1910, American retailer Jacob Goldfrab started making the cotton t-shirts under his brand, Fruit of the Loom. In no time he captured the t-shirt market. By the late 1930s American brands such as Hanes, Sears and Roebuck & Co started marketing the t-shirts.

Where does the word "tuxedo" come from?

It is the name of a town and country club.

It is slang from "luxury doings".

It was the name of the first tailor to make the suit.

It is the Italian word for dinner jacket.

It is the name of a town and country club. Next question

The US term "tuxedo" refers to what the English call a "Dinner Jacket". Apparently, some American members of the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo NY, brought the style over from England, and it caught on in the US under the name "tuxedo".